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Pierre Desproges (1939 - 1988) was a famous French humorist for his virulent nonconformism.

Biography

Pierre Desproges was born the May 9th 1939 with Pantin.

Pierre Desproges is typically a bad pupil at the school. He leaves for 24 months in Algérie where he must achieve a Military service of which he will have an execrable memory. While returning of Algeria, it cannot what make its life. It sells life insurances cans (renamed by him insurance-death!), then expanded polystyrene beams (one takes it for the strapping man of the city). He also makes reports of horse-races to Paris Turf.

He becomes Journaliste with the Dawn where he enters thanks to his friend of childhood Annette Kahn. Its department head, Bernard Morrot, appreciates his short strange with acid humor, and he becomes writer of the heading of what he calls the heading of the crushed Chats. Considered to be a little too caustic it avoids its dismissal thanks to Francoise Sagan which buys the Dawn only for the heading of Desproges. Noticed by its fellow-members, he becomes chronicler in the television program the Small Rapporteur , on TF1. Its service in this Sunday emission of Jacques Martin, at the side of its accomplice Daniel Prévost remains engraved in the spirit of the amateurs of black Humor and Cynisme. It snap the door because it is cut more and more often to the assembly. After these oppressions, it turns over to the Dawn , because it feels there better.

It takes part then in several radio programs on France Inter:

  • In 1978 and 1979, it animates in company of Thierry the Lad the weekly emission the Parasites on the antenna .
  • In 1980 and 1981, it takes part in Charlie Hebdo with a small chronicle entitled the foreigners are null .
  • Between 1980 and 1983, he is the prosecutor of the Tribunal of obvious are delirious in company of Claude Villers and of Luis Rego. Its wild indictments start invariably with its famous: “French, French, Belgian, Belgian, public darling, my love” to end in a sentence without call: “Thus the defendant is guilty, but its lawyer will convince you better than me”.

See also: Liste of the indictments of Pierre Desproges to the Court of obvious be delirious

  • It animates in 1986 a daily chronicle entitled Chroniques of the ordinary hatred , where it is caught some on the subjects making it boil, through yells of one or approximately two minutes.

In 1982, he collaborates a few months in the scenario of the emission Merci Bernard on FR3.

He also ensures on this chain, between 1982 and 1984 (100 emissions) a chronicle entitled the Minute necessary of Mr Cyclopède which, according to him, divides the France into two: “the imbeciles who like and the imbeciles who do not like. ” .

On the councils of Guy Bedos, it is also assembled on scene in 1984 and 1986.

He died of a cancer the April 18th 1988 and is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise to Paris, just opposite Michel Petrucciani and not far from Frederic Chopin.

A squeaking humor

Famous for its squeaking humor emphasized for a remarkable literary ease, Desproges was in particular illustrated on often avoided topics. As he said it itself: “One can laugh at all, but not with everyone. ”

Its features of humor generally reveal a character jovial fellow, individualist and nonconformist, although its predilection for the provocations intended to permanently take its public with opposite course to the agreed positions make it obviously not easily classable.

He does not hesitate to attack the most significant subjects with a wild liveliness, as the few following quotations illustrate it (see also on Wikiquote):

  • “the intelligence, it is the only tool which makes it possible the man to measure the extent of its misfortune… the intelligence it is like the parachutes, when one does not have any, one is crushed! ”
  • “Yes, in my opinion, one can laugh at all, one must laugh at all! War, misery, and death! With does the remainder it obstruct death, it, to laugh itself at us? (...) All we are mown one day by the crochepied joker of idiotic death, and the human rights are erased in front of the rights of the maggot! (...) Second point: Can one laugh with everyone? It is hard! ”
  • “There are as many innocent scientists in the world than there were peasants persuaded to live close to the factory Olida in the suburbs of Buchenwald
  • “I like the stories which finish badly, because it is those which resemble more the life”
  • the Capital it is like the Annuaire, one turns three pages and one takes down! ”
  • “Give to the téléthon it is all that which the resto du coeur will not have! ”
  • “Minute is an advantageous newspaper; hold, instead of you emmerder to read all Sartre, you buy a specimen of Minute and for less than ten balls you have at the same time the dirty nausea and hands! ”
  • “the Democracy, it is the victory of Belmondo over Fellini”
  • “I am the opposite of an engaged artist, I am a released artist. Bah, I can be committed, separately the line it does not have nothing in the world there but I mistake as much as the left. And then initially which left? Sticky left of Humanism sirupeux of the Eunuque S with the Rose? Which line? Is the line of the Manure where the pink hatched? ”
  • “I have a deep respect for the contempt which I have of the men”
  • “It is not necessary to despair of the imbeciles. With a little drive, one can sometimes happen to make of them Militaire S”
  • Anne Sinclair declared that she would never have married nona Jew; one could see there like a kind of racism”
  • “annoying It in the collaboration, it is that had to be denounced Juif S. It is not very pretty like occupation to denounce the Jews. Yes but… in the resistance, one did not denounce the Jews, but was necessary to live with! ”
  • “There is more humanity in the eye of a dog when it stirs up the tail that in the tail of Le Pen when he stirs up his eye”
  • “more cancerous than me, tumor! ” or “Christmas with the scanner, Easter with the cemetery! ”
  • “When I think that I gain in one evening the three months equivalent of wages of a semi-skilled worker whereas very close to here, and in this moment even, Guy Bedos gains in one evening six months of wages of a framework! ” .

It even turned its characteristic died in derision by writing itself the dispatch announcing its death: “Pierre Desproges died of a cancer. Astonishing, not? ” in reference to the sentence of ritual conclusion on FR3 of the Minute necessary of Mr Cyclopède. This dispatch is in fact of the hand of Jean-Louis Fournier, realizer of the Minute necessary and close to Desproges. At the base, this one was to be “Pierre Desproges died of a cancer without the assistance of the professor Schwartzenberg” , suggested by Helene Desproges, but the doctors stated to him that it was likely to go ahead of of a polemic.

Works

  • Of the Women who fall , 1985, (Romance)

  • the Minute necessary of Mr Cyclopède , 1995, (short texts) republished in 1999;
    • the video files available in DVD are entitled the essential encyclopedia of Mr Cyclopède .
  • the Good Councils of the professor Corbiniou
  • the Indictments of the Court of obvious be delirious (audio and video files, books)
  • Chroniques of ordinary hatred (book, files audio)
  • Manuel good manners with the use of the louts and impolite fellows (book)
  • happy Vivons while waiting for death (book)
  • superfluous Dictionnaire for the use of the elite and the affluent goods (book)
  • Pierre Desproges, the scene (republished in double CD)

Posthumous

  • Bottoms of the barrel
  • Textes of scenes
  • the Almanac
  • the foreigners are null
  • the only certainty which I have, it is to be in the doubt (maintenance)
  • the Small one To defer (collection of the “ In short ” published in the Dawn)
  • Pierre Desproges in data base: Frenchwomen, French, Belgians, Belgians, reader cherished my love

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site (Desproges.fr)
  • Apostrophes, May 8th, 1987

References

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