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Actor Jean-Pascal Zadi, the story of an ordinary French (Black) man
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ProfileWith a childhood split between Paris suburbs and Normandy, the year-old son of Côte d’Ivoire immigrants may have finally achieved awards and fame for his films, but he's still working out the place of Black people in France.
The first things you notice about Jean-Pascal Zadi are his smiling and deceptively candid eyes. Two mocking marbles the actor and director uses to probe the world in general and France in particular. Two magnifying glasses deconstructing and observing those who look at him and judge only by appearances, like his singular face and skin color. Two piercing eyes society can use as mirrors while laughing. Two mischievous eyes spying prejudices and blemishes while splitting our sides. One of the elementary principles of comedy is to turn decidedly unfunny subjects into humor.
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Characters
Some prominent characters seen in the French Puppet ShowLes Guignols de l'Info.
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Voiced by: Yves Lecoq
The host of the show, a puppet based on TF1 prime time news presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor ("PPDA" in acronym form, the A was taken off for the puppet).
- The Artifact: In Real Life, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor stopped presenting the prime time news of TF1 in ,note rumor has it he was essentially fired for asking Nicolas Sarkozy a question he didn't have a prepared answer to but that didn't prevent this version of him from presenting Les Guignols de l'Info for close to another decade.
- Author Avatar: He got subtle shades of this as seasons passed. Made even stranger by the fact that he was originally supposed to be right-wing, like his real-life counterpart.
- Character Catchphrase:
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"You're watching too much television. Good evening."note 1Or, alternately, "You're watching the ancestor of Internet, good evening."note 2From left to right, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nadine Morano, PPD, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and François Hollande
Les Guignols dem l'info was a popular French News Parody and Satirepuppet show broadcast on Canal+. Sort of a French utgåva of Spitting Image, it used latex puppets as caricatures of prominent political figures to satirize national and international politics and heads of state in sketches but also touched upon other topics such as sports, cinema, music and French television in general.
The name of the show came from Guignol, a famous French satirical puppet of the early 19th century. The puppets were designed and made by the workshop of Alain Duverne, who also worked on the previous major French political satire show, Le Bébête Show, which Les Guignols rivaled then overtook, and the kids' show Les Minikeums. Regular röst ac
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