Laurent Ruquier
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Laurent Ruquier, born February 24, 1963 in Le Havre
Le Havre
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 (Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

), Normandy
Normandy
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, France
France
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 is a popular French
French people
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 journalist
Journalist
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, satirical comedian
Comedian
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, and TV
Television
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 and radio
Radio
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 host. He is also a columnist
Columnist
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, lyricist
Lyricist
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, author
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, screenwriter
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, and impresario
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.

Biography

Ruquier grew up in a large family of modest means. His father was a locally-based construction worker, and his mother, a housewife.
A happy child, Ruquier breezed through school and entertained his classmates with his very first attempts at satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 in the school newspaper.

In french television and radio

List of its programs:
  • Rien à cirer "We (I) Don't Care", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , 1994,television adaptation of his radio programm
  • Les Niouzes "News", on TF1
    TF1
    TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

    , 1995
  • Un an de plus "One more year", on Canal+
    Canal+
    Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...

    , 1999/2000, with Marc-Olivier Fogiel
  • On a tout essayé "We tried everything", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , 2000/2007
  • Ça balance à Paris "This hesitates in Paris", on Paris Première
    Paris Première
    Paris Première is a French TV channel, available on cable, satellite and the digital terrestrial service, Télévision Numérique Terrestre. It was launched on December 15, 1986 and is now wholly owned by M6.-External links:*...

    , 2005/2006
  • On n'a pas tout dit "We didn't say our last word", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , 2007/2008
  • On va s'gêner "We are goin to step on toes"on France 4
    France 4
    France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...

    , 2010, television adaptation of his radio programm

Now:
  • On n'est pas couché "We're not in bed", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , since 2006
  • On a tout révisé "We have revised everything", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , since 2009
  • On n'demande qu'à en rire "We just need a laugh", on France 2
    France 2
    France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

    , since 2010


In september 2000
September 2000
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, Thierry Ardisson
Thierry Ardisson
Thierry Ardisson , is a French television producer and host.-Bibliography:*T. Ardisson & Alain Decaux, Cinemoi*T.Ardisson & Alain Decaux, Rive droite*T.Ardisson et Alain Decaux, Louis XX*T.Ardisson, Pondichéry...

 and Catherine Barma offer him to enliven On a tout essayé "We tried everything" on France 2
France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

 in second evening party, every other Tuesday. In 2001, his talk show received a 7 d'or in the category "Better comedy show". In front of success of the programm, France 2
France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

 offers him, in september 2001
September 2001
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, to pass in daily between 7 pm and 8 pm. With him, there is notbaly Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck is a comedian, humorist and cartoonist. He studied at the INSAS...

, Peri Cochin
Peri Cochin
Périhane Chalabi Cochin is a French TV host with Iraqi Lebanese origins. She was born in Beirut on May 28, 1965 and grew up in Tyre in a Shi’a Muslim family. She left Lebanon for France in 1975 when the Lebanese Civil War broke.She lives in Paris where she married Guillaume Cochin, a famous French...

, Isabelle Alonso, Caroline Diament, Christophe Alévêque, Elsa Fayer, Annie Lemoine, Steevy Boulay, Pierre Bénichou, Florence Foresti
Florence Foresti
Florence Foresti is a French comedian and actress.-Background:Following her high school studies in literature, theatre and dramatic expression at Saint-Just de Lyon, Florence Foresti entered a school for cinematography at Lyon...

... From september 2007
September 2007
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 to july 2008
July 2008
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, he enliven On n'a pas tout dit "We haven't said everything", a daily talk show which replaced On a tout essayé.

For 1999, Ruquier also enliven a talk show On va s'gêner on the Europe 1
Europe 1
Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio network created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radio broadcasters and heard throughout France...

 radio station. During than more two hours he comments the actuality with chroniclers' band among whom Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck is a comedian, humorist and cartoonist. He studied at the INSAS...

, Gérard Miller, Isabel Alonso, Pierre Bénichou, Claude Sarraute, Fabrice Éboué, Christophe Alévêque, Steevy Boulay, Jean-Luke Lemoine, Peri Cochin
Peri Cochin
Périhane Chalabi Cochin is a French TV host with Iraqi Lebanese origins. She was born in Beirut on May 28, 1965 and grew up in Tyre in a Shi’a Muslim family. She left Lebanon for France in 1975 when the Lebanese Civil War broke.She lives in Paris where she married Guillaume Cochin, a famous French...

, Valérie Mairesse
Valérie Mairesse
Valérie Mairesse is a French stage and film actress. She was nominated for the César Awards 1978 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Repérages.-Selected filmography:* Tu Seras Mon Fils...

, Christine Bravo, Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...

, Christine Ockrent
Christine Ockrent
Christine Ockrent is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.Daughter of Belgian diplomat Charles Ockrent, she was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1965. She worked for American television and...

, Isabelle Motrot, Monica Pantel for rubric cinema, Serge Llado for rubrics "Endless Musics" could make their appearance Arno Klarsfeld, Valérie Payet, Bernard Rapp
Bernard Rapp
Bernard Rapp was a French film director and television news presenter.Rapp was born in Paris. After graduating from university, he worked as a freelance journalist. In 1976, he joined Antenne 2 as their international correspondent, working later as their London correspondent from 1981 to 1983...

, Jacques Martin
Jacques Martin
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, Jean Yanne
Jean Yanne
Jean Yanne is the artist name of Jean Gouyé, born the 18 July 1933 in Les Lilas who died the 23 May 2003 in Morsains...

, Philippe Bouvard
Philippe Bouvard
Philippe Bouvard is the well-known host of French radio program Les Grosses Têtes on RTL and TV program Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard broadcast from 1982 to 1986 on Antenne 2....

 himself, between his dismissal and its return in RTL, Pierre Palmade
Pierre Palmade
Pierre Palmade is a French actor and comedian.-Biography:He has done dubbing for the films, Pédale douce and Pédale dure...

 there...
The programm celebrates his ten years on October 21st, 2009 during one special and free three-hour party in the Olympia (Paris) and broadcast on Europe 1
Europe 1
Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio network created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radio broadcasters and heard throughout France...

 and France 4
France 4
France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...

. Chroniclers having participated in program since her création were present.
In february 2010
February 2010
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, he enliven a television adaptation of his radio programm monthly on France 4
France 4
France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...

. He stopped his programm in december 2011
December 2011
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.

For 2006, he currently presents the weekly talk show On n'est pas couché "We're not in bed", which airs on Saturday nights. Eric Zemmour
Éric Zemmour
Éric Zemmour is a French conservative political journalist and writer. He has been a columnist for the daily newsparer Le Figaro and a panelist on France 2 talk-show On n'est pas couché and on I-Télé current affairs show Ça se dispute...

 and at first Michel Polac then Eric Naulleau, criticisms, manage the political and literary party. In may 2011
May 2011
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 he announces a modification of his team, he decides to replace both polemicists Eric Zemmour
Éric Zemmour
Éric Zemmour is a French conservative political journalist and writer. He has been a columnist for the daily newsparer Le Figaro and a panelist on France 2 talk-show On n'est pas couché and on I-Télé current affairs show Ça se dispute...

 and Eric Naulleau by two women, Natacha Polony and Audrey Pulvar
Audrey Pulvar
Audrey Pulvar is a French journalist.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Marc Pulvar, a syndicalist and political Caribbean independantist. She has a daughter born in 1997. She lived with the chef Alain Passard from 2008 to 2009...

. Besides this change, Jonathan Lambert stop his collaboration with the programm, and the honest dramatist Nicolas Bedos
Nicolas Bedos
Nicolas Bedos is a French Theatre director, comedian and TV personalty. He is the son of Guy Bedos....

, arrive on the team.

For december 2009
December 2009
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, he enliven On a tout révisé "We have reviewed everything", with all its band.

For september 2010
September 2010
September 2010 was the ninth month of that year. It began on a Wednesday and concluded after 30 days on a Thursday.-International holidays and observances:* 1: Constitution Day * 1: Independence Day...

, he presents a new program, On n'demande qu'à en rire "We ask in laugh". During the programm, humorists (solos, duoes, trios, etc.) not much known by the general public, professionals or amateurs, can occur the time sketch on the tray of l 'émission. Every sketch is written by the candidate (with or without authors) in function of the chosen topic of actuality a few days before the recording of the programm, among a list of subjects. Since March 15th 2011, humorists members (having made more than 10 passages) cant have the choice among the list of subjects, topic is imposed on them by Laurent Ruquier.
At the beginning, jury was composed of Laurent Ruquier, two guests having a cultural actuality and member of the "Ruquier's Band", the last three jurors changed then every jour.
À leave of October 18th, 2010, suite notably to passage as juror of Chantal Goya
Chantal Goya
Chantal Goya is a French singer and actress.Chantal Goya started her career as a yé-yé girl, singing a catchy mid-'60s hybrid of girl-group pop and French chanson...

 who according to him « didn't played the game », Laurent Ruquier decided to replace this jury « temporary » by a jury « recurrent » composed of himself and three specialists of the world of show. Now there are: Jean Benguigui
Jean Benguigui
Jean Benguigui is a French actor of the screen, stage and on television, he born April 8 1944 in Oran. He is of Jewish descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Theatre du Chatelet.-Filmography:* La croisière...

, Isabelle Mergault, Catherine Barma, Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...

, Michèle Bernier, Eric Metayer, Jean-Luc Moreau, Philippe Gildas and Virginie Lemoine
Virginie Lemoine
Virginie Lemoine is a French humorist and actress. By her marriage with actor Alexandre Bonstein, she also has Swiss nationality.-Career:Virginie Lemoine attended acting school at the Conservatory in Rouen...

.

One-man-shows and theatre

From 1997 till 2000, he goes up on boardwalk with two shows accomplished by the unknown Pascal Légitimus and the products by only to laugh: "Finally nice" and "Still nice". In this opportunity, it makes its coming out and reveals its homosexuality.

List of its plays:
  • 2003: La presse est unanime, "The press is unanimous"
  • 2004: Grosse chaleur, "Big warmith"
  • 2005: Et si c'était à refaire, "If it was to do again"
  • 2008: Open bed
  • 2008: J'me voyais déjà, "I have already seen myself"
  • 2011: Parce que je la vole bien, "Because I steal it well! "
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