History SerieS / LesGuignolsDeLInfo

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[KentBrockmanNews "You're watching too much television. Good evening.]]"''[[note]]Or, alternately, ''"You're watching the ancestor of Internet, good evening."''[[/note]][[note]]From left to right, [[AttentionWhore Nicolas Sarkozy]], [[SirSwearsALot Nadine Morano]], [[OnlySaneMan PPD]], [[DirtyOldMan Dominique Strauss-Kahn]], and [[FatIdiot François Hollande]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[KentBrockmanNews "You're watching too much television. Good evening.]]"''[[note]]Or, alternately, ''"You're watching the ancestor of Internet, good evening."''[[/note]]]]

** ''Rape Island'', a show where a young woman must escape from a whole bunch of insane rapists and murderers on a deserted island. The head honchos at [=TF1=] find the concept amazing, and to counter it, decide to[[invoked]] FollowTheLeader with ''Rape Island Academy'', which is pretty much the same thing but with singing added.

* LyricalDissonance: Invoked with various parodies of Stromae songs for a ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpG5MimkK4s Depression Party]]''. Much like the original, the songs are catchy, the lyrics are depressing (in order, about losing your job, your hair to chemotherapy, and lapidations).

* LyricalDissonance: Invoked with various parodies of Stromae songs for a ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E9cK8-_o2w Depression Party]]''. Much like the original, the songs are catchy, the lyrics are depressing (in order, about losing your job, your hair to chemotherapy, and lapidations).

** The same goes for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sgbIN87l0 "Pol Fiction"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVlxzRwREk "Gangs of RPR"]], which are parodies of ''Film/PulpFiction'' and ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''. In fact, the right wing has always been subject to ChronicBackstabbingDisorder before Nicolas Sarkozy's election at the head of the party in 2004. And once again since his departure, this time between Jean-François Copé and François Fillon.

** In one specific segment entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3XYuRjXJe4 "Droite City"]], which is essentially a parody of ''Film/SinCity'', all the major actors of the right wing are seen fighting one another. At the end of the segment, the show pokes fun at the socialist party, having Laurent Fabius backstab François Hollande, saying "Lolo président". This was before the 2007 presidential elections.

** Jean-Marie Messier, former CEO of Vivendi
** Most American personalities in the later seasons (e.g.: UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and Music/{{Rihanna}}) also had this.

** Most American personalities in the later seasons (e.g.: UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and Music/Rihanna) also had this.

* HospitalHottie: Neymar Jr. was accompanied by two attractive nurses during a [[https://www.facebook.com/GuignolsInfo/videos/neymar-jr-ne-me-parlez-plus-jamais-de-la-france/1879981275385513/ 2018 sketch]] where he sings about not wanting to be part of the Paris Saint-Germain club anymore.

* ImpactSilhouette: A mosquito in one skit, after drinking Richard Virenque's blood, ends up doped and zooms around at supersonic speed, leaving an impact through palm tree leaves.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: After a segment parodying Lance Armstrong's interview with Creator/{{Oprah|Winfrey}} where [[DistractedByTheSexy he answers "Yes"]] to ''every'' question in a monotone, she ends it with "Have you been staring at my tits for the past hour?" "Yes."

* PantheonSitcom: A parody of ''Series/{{Friends}}" titled "''G.O.D.S.''" features Yahweh, Allah, Shiva and other gods in typical sitcom situations.

* LovesMeNot: François Bayrou is a center positioned politician, and as a result, a sketch once showed him doing everything "in between" for this reason. As a kid, he drank his chocolate warm rather than hot or cold, and always get the grade 10 (on 20) in school. As a teenager and with his first love, François Bayrou plucks a daisy. In France, instead of "She loves me, she loves me not", "She loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly" is said. François Bayrou plucks the flower while stating " I love you a a little, a lot, passionately, madly, averagely" and is satisfied to have ended with "Averagely". His girlfriend, not so much.

* LovesMeNot: François Bayrou is a center positioned politician, and as a result, a sketch once showed him doing everything "in between" for this reason. As a kid, he drank his chocolate warm rather than hot or cold, and always get the grade 10 (on 20) in school. As a teenager and with his first love, François Bayrou plucks a daisy. In France, instead of "She loves me, she loves me not", "She loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly" is said. François Bayrou pluks the flower while stating " I love you a a little, a lot, passionately, madly, averagely" and is satisfied to have ended with "Averagely". His girlfriend, not so much.

* CucumberFacial: During a Festival of Cannes episode. Two actors, Jean -Pierre Bacri and Patrick Timsit, are assaulted by L'Oreal staff. Jean-Pierre Bacri ends with cucumber on his face and Patrick Timsit with a taramasalata mask [[RuleOfFunny for some reason.]]

* {{Malaproper}}: Johnny Halliday and Jacques Chirac were notorious for frequently using wrong terms, like "mulot" ("rodent") instead of "souris d'ordinateur" ("computer mouse") in Chirac's case.
** Mitt Romney had never ending dialogues with Mr.Sylvestre, where the latter corrected Romney, only for the first to understand the word wrongly again.

* CatchphraseInsult: Bernard Tapie always calls PPD "Joe la Fiotte" ("Joe the Fag").

* GagBoobs: Actress Creator/SophieMarceau after her ''[[WardrobeMalfunction incident]]'' during the 2005 Cannes Festival.

In 2023, the French web TV Blast launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a SpiritualSuccessor called ''Les Marioles'', with former ''Guignols'' writer Bruno Gaccio (among others) at the helm.