New Comedy Sketches
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| This is not from a television programme, a kind
contributor sent me it. He tells me it is from a tour
Jean-Marie Bigard did called 100 villes, 100 dates.
It is a series of 'one-liners' as the Americans call them - very
short jokes. And Warning, very, very rude ! I upload it because a) it's marvellous listening practise, and b) it makes me laugh. If this sort of thing does not make you laugh ... don't watch ! |
I got a request to transcribe this wonderful sketch of Raymond Devos. It's part of a compilation of 9 minutes that you can find here. I just did the first 3mins30, because I felt my sanity going... but it's a super sketch | A nice sketch from Chevallier et Laspalès on Art. Not only are they funny, the voices are always crystal clear, so one can accustom the ear to the speed of delivery, while not having to worry about the clarity. It's not often as easy as that ! |
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| France has some good impersonators, but for me the king is Nicolas Canteloup. Here is an extract from one of his shows where he utterly destroys Christophe Hondelatte, the presenter of the long-running Faitest Entrer l'accusé |
For the new season Les stars du rire returned with a slightly strange mixture of old clips, games for a panel of comics, and some new material. Among which Olivier de Benoist, a young comedian I hadn't encountered before. And his act was surprisingly naughty.... not at all common on French TV. I have to admit I didn't pick up all the references ..... thé à la Marocaine ?? |
Here is Alex Metayer in his one-man show with what purports to be lecture on the development of human speech. Very inventive - and very clear |
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| I know I say this all the time, but it's the listening exercises which are the most frustrating that do us the most good. That is why comedy sketches are excellent : we so much want to understand. Here is Popeck in Dîner chez Maxim's, which was agony to transcribe. Wonderful comedy... | Here is one of my favourite comic actors, Michel Leeb, an extract from a show he must have done a few years ago, because he parodies the then President, Jacques Chirac. | For me, this man is the greatest of them all, Pierre Desproges. France 5 did a documentary on him, full of the usual boring talking heads, so I have pasted together 5 minutes of sketches. He is as inventive as Raymond Devos, he is a poet ... and he is wonderfully, wonderfully offensive ! r |
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| Plus si affinités is a two-man theatre show starring Pascal Legitimus and Mathilda May. Here they give us a rather sad sketch. Two people who had a romance when very young meet in a supermarket after many years. They exchange the ordinary banalities of conversation which serve to disguise failure and desperation. But it's funny and intelligent. .. and not easy to follow |
Saturday night, and Michel Drucker presents another in the series Champs Elysées, a revival of the famous variety show of 25 years ago. And here is Dany Boon, a clown who is now so famous in France that he can make people laugh with really very little material ... but a lot of professionalism |
Nothing illustrates the contradictions in French society better than television. You have FranceTélévisions, state-owned, high quality programmes, definitely left-wing, because the employees are bureaucrats. But then you have the privately-owned channels, vulgar, right-wing and, in the case of TF1, very, very popular. So after the evening news on TF1 we now have Après le 20h c'est Nicolas Canteloup. It's not the best of his material, but it reflects the taste of his audience |
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| Here is the excitable Michel Boujenah entertaining at a charity show where the audience are largely medical people, and talking about his childhood in Tunisia |
