Pierre Desproges

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Pierre Desproges (May 9, 1939 - April 18, 1988) was a French humorist. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to his own acknowledgment, he claimed no significant achievements before the age of 30. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as a life insurances salesman, opinion pool investigator, lonely hearts columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager of an expanded polystyrene beam compagny. He worked six years for the journal l'Aurore, from 1970 to 1976. Starting in 1975, he was "journalist" for Le petit rapporteur, a TV emission with Jacques Martin. He caught the public attention with "unconventional" interviews of celebrities among them are novelists [artistFrançoise Sagan or Jean-Edern Hallier. He appeared for the first time at the Olympia during a Thierry Le Luron show. He became very famous, among others, for his Chroniques de la haine ordinaire, a radio emission in 1986. In 1980, he appeared on the daily radio emission Le tribunal des flagrants délires. In this comic programme that lasted more than two years, he had the role of a prosecutor in charge of the accusation of an invited celebrity. In 1982, he created on TV La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède. In this short emission, he was a sort of omniscient professor and answered primordial questions such as : “How to make King Louis XVI fireproof ?", demonstrated that Beethoven was not "deaf" but "stupid" and explained why the unprobable encounter between the "Venus de Milo" and the "Petit Princ

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