Jamy Gourmaud looks back on the incredible success of C’est pas sorcier

Jamy Gourmaud is an essential television journalist. Virtually all viewers know him for popularizing science for nearly two decades in This is not rocket science on France 3 with Frédéric Courant, alias Fred, and Sabine Quindou. In the end, more than 559 programs were created in 19 years, they were devoted to the Earth, the universe, the human body, new technologies or even history and the environment. And for more than two years now, Jamy Gourmaud has been at the head of the media Epicurious and continues to popularize many subjects including recently the hangover or the sorting of waste.

“It’s something we don’t understand”

Jamy Gourmaud was the guest of the podcast InPower by designer Louise Aubery. He returned to his journalistic career, his experience in This is not rocket science or his new adventure with Epicurious. The journalist then returned to the moment when the show became a real phenomenon. “We don’t understand it, it’s something we don’t understand”, he explained. He also revealed that he was expecting his first child during the preparation of the show, which had a certain influence on the project. “When we decide to make this show, it’s another period of my life where I’m going to become a dad, so I want to ask myself a little to follow the first weeks, the first months, the first years of my little boy“, he confided. “I want to ask myself, it is for this reason that when it comes to making the choice between who would be in the truck and who would be outside, I wanted to stay in the truck.”

“I’m very glad I did”

Jamy Gourmaud was far from suspecting at that time that the show was going to be so successful that they were going to stay on the air for almost two decades. “We offer this program thinking that it will last two or three years. If it goes well, it will last two or three years, and after everyone will return to their loves and everything will be fine. And it lasted 19 years!“, he told Louise Aubery. It’s not rocket science is the first show to last so long on the air, but is Jamy Gourmaud proud of it? “I’m very happy that I did it, I’m proud that I did my job well actually. It’s a show that also allowed me to learn a lot because I don’t have a scientific background. When I tumble into It’s not rocket science, I don’t know anything!”, he confessed. “And so, you have to get it into your head that everything we’re going to tell in It’s not rocket science, well, we’re going to discover it, learn it, understand it in order to be able to restore it. It’s a lot of work but also a great joy, an extraordinary form of fulfilment.”