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Pierre Desproges (9 May 1939 – 18 April 1988) was a French humorist. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to himself, he made no significant achievements before the age of 30. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as: life insurance salesman, opinion pool investigator, "lonely hearts" columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager for a styrofoam beam company.
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Pierre Desproges (9 May 1939 – 18 April 1988) was a French humorist. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to himself, he made no significant achievements before the age of 30. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as: life insurance salesman, opinion pool investigator, "lonely hearts" columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager for a styrofoam beam company.
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Pierre Desproges (9 May 1939 – 18 April 1988) was a French humorist. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to himself, he made no significant achievements before the age of 30. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as: life insurance salesman, opinion pool investigator, "lonely hearts" columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager for a styrofoam beam company.
From 1970 to 1976, he worked for the newspaper L'Aurore. Starting in 1975, he became a "reporter" on Le petit rapporteur (The Little Snitch), a satirical TV show hosted by Jacques Martin. He caught the public's attention with unconventional interviews of celebrities, among them novelists Françoise Sagan or Jean-Edern Hallier.
He appeared for the first time on stage at the Olympia theater during a Thierry Le Luron show. Among other things, he became very famous for his Chroniques de la haine ordinaire (Chronicles of Ordinary Hatred), a 1986 radio show.
In the 1980s, he appeared daily on Le tribunal des flagrants délires (a pun on the French term "flagrant délit" meaning red-handed), a comedy show where celebrities were judged in mock-trials. Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.
In 1982, he created La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède, a series of shorts for TV, where he played an omniscient professor. He answered to metaphysical and nonsensical questions such as "How to make King Louis XVI fireproof?", proved that Beethoven was not deaf but stupid, and explained why the improbable encounter between the Venus de Milo and Saint Exupéry's 'Petit Prince' was a fiasco. Each episode ended with the catchphrase: "Étonnant, non?" ("Astonishing, isn't it?")
In 1984, he had his first stand-up show at the Théâtre Fontaine. In 1986, his second stand-up, Pierre Desproges se donne en spectacle was presented at the Théâtre Grévin. He started work on a third stand-up, and the drafts were ultimately published in 2010.
In 1987, doctors discovered he had inoperable lung cancer in an advanced stage, and his relatives, in agreement with the doctors, decided to hide the condition from him, so he could spend his final days quietly. He died in 1988, from a disease he had bitterly laughed at time and time again, often saying "I won't have cancer: I'm against it". He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His epitaph reads: "Pierre Desproges est mort d'un cancer, étonnant, non?" ("Pierre Desproges died of cancer, astonishing, isn't it?"). ...
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Gender
Male
Birthday
May 9, 1939
Died
April 18, 1988
Birthplace
Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Procès de Jean Carmet
1983
Droit de Réponse
1981
Pierre Desproges - Tout seul en Scène
1985
Pierre Desproges au théâtre Grévin
1986
Signé Furax
1981
Desproges est vivant
1998
Triple sec
1986
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)
2008
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Tribunal des flagrants délires : Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
1982
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
2022
Les 60 ans du one-man-show
2020
Pierre Desproges se donne en spectacle
1993
Le Tribunal Des Flagrants Délires
2009
Pierre Desproges Une plume dans le Culte
2018
Nazis dans le rétro
1977
L'indispensable encyclopédie de monsieur Cyclopède
1982
Pierre Desproges au théâtre Fontaine
1984
Pierre Desproges: Je ne suis pas n'importe qui...
2008
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Champs-Elysées
1982
Midi Première
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Numéro un
1975
Apostrophes
1975
30 millions d'amis
1976
Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
Merci Bernard
1982
Minichronique
1976
Minichronique
1976
Minichronique
1976
Le Petit Rapporteur
1975
La Minute nécessaire de monsieur Cyclopède
1982