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Aye I think the user before me, was quite aggrieved by this program. Maybe its because french humour and british humour is just worlds apart (i'll voice that i'm of both nationalities and quite frankly, they both just arent in the same boat.) Im just here to smoothen out the creases. It isnt that its funny as such. It's...a bit clever. Laurent Ruquier, known for his 'grand gueule' (big mouth) and for his associations to Thierry Ardisson, another big mouth, already gives him the reputation for not minding to speak their minds. He's gay and publicly announces it, he's leftist, and doesnt ever hold his tongue to bitch about the president. He's also a writer, as well as a t.v and radio host. And if you had heard what him and Dave (dutch singer who's huge in france) said during the 2000 eurovision commentaries. Hilarious. Point is, even if on this show they tend to laugh a lot more than they make jokes, it's a smidge cleverer than most of the crap that gets shown on t.v.

Last year I went on a college trip to France, where I stayed (with a friend) with a French family. Every evening, the mother would sit down to do some cross-stitch, and the father sat down with us to watch TV. Only the ONLY thing they ever seemed to watch was On a tout essayé! Now usually I'm all for watching new things, being a media and film student, and I understood it ok, being a french student, but the fact is that the show *wasn't* funny, *wasn't* clever and i nearly ended up screaming on the last night when it reappeared on the TV one last time. I'm sure the french like it......or maybe it's a case of the family *not* liking us. Either way, they were quite happy to watch it. Maybe I missed something. Possibly it's just french humour that doesn't translate well to English. Rant over.