The butt kicks of the Cyniques : a “ti-pop” anticlericalism
As a group of young comedians (1961- 1972), the Cyniques are known for their disrespectful tone and their iconoclastic flights on taboo subjects such as sexuality and the clergy. Their spectacular anticlericalism in an effervescent student milieu gives us the impression that they were at the forefront of secularism in Quebec. The study of the context and the texts of the Cyniques allows us to evaluate their contribution to the critique of religion in the specific form of their interventions. Our working hypothesis holds that it was as much the manner (student environment, entertainment medium, popular language) as the material that constituted their mark.