History Trivia / LesGuignolsDeLInfo

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Vincent Bolloré took over Canal+ in 2015, he had the show's airing schedules reduced, fired most of the writers, made sure it became less and less political, and had puppets of celebrities like Music/JustinBieber and reality TV personalities put forth. The show's audience ratings sank rock bottom and it was eventually terminated in October 2018, three months after its 30th anniversary.

** ''Les Guignols'' also sometimes used puppets from ''Series/LesMinikeums'' (or made from the same molds as ''Les Minikeums'') as young extras or incidental characters, as the shows shared a workshop (that of Alain Duverne) and some puppeteers.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total for the longest time (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret) to voice hundreds of politicians and celebrities (not counting voiceovers like Creator/JeanBarney and Creator/AlainDorval), which made sense since all of them were professional imitators who could imitate a wide range of famous people. Yves Lecoq alone did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female and teen voices.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total for the longest time (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of politicians and celebrities (not counting voiceovers like Creator/JeanBarney and Creator/AlainDorval), which made sense since all of them were professional imitators who could imitate a wide range of famous people. Yves Lecoq alone did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female and teen voices.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total for the longest time (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of politicians and celebrities (not counting voiceovers like Creator/JeanBarney and Creator/AlainDorval). Yves Lecoq did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female and teen voices.

* TalkingToHimself: Around 30 actors voice over 300 characters, so this is bound to happen. Most notable with the Sylvestres.

** ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' also sometimes used puppets from ''Series/LesMinikeums'' as young extras or incidental characters, as the shows shared a workshop and some puppeteers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The very final episode was going to show Chirac and PPD giving each other sorry glances as a song by Cyril Hanouna was playing in the elevator they were in... which was supposed to be a TakeThat at Hanouna having become French TV's most popular personality (and often criticized as aiming for the LowestCommonDenominator). The creators were forced to rework the scene so that the song is only faintly heard and Chirac and PPD don't react to it.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total for the longest time (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of politicians and celebrities (not counting voiceovers like Creator/JeanBarney and Creator/AlainDorval). Yves Lecoq did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female voices.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of politicians and celebrities (not counting voiceovers like Creator/JeanBarney and Creator/AlainDorval). Yves Lecoq did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female voices.

* CreatorBacklash: Alain Duverne, the creator of the puppets, left the show after 2007 when he realized the writers were becoming more concerned about [[{{Anvilicious}} inserting their views agressively]] rather than being funny. He thought Nicolas Sarkozy could have made a funny character by playing on his Creator/LouisDeFunes mannerisms, but instead they "[[GodwinsLaw portrayed him like a Nazi]]".

* BeamMeUpScotty: Some {{Catch Phrase}}s were never actually said by the people the puppets satirize.

* ActingForTwo: The show only had ''six'' voice actors in total (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of characters. Yves Lecoq did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female voices.

* ActingForTwo: The show only has ''six'' voice actors in total (Yves Lecoq, Daniel Herzog, Sandrine Alexi, Nicolas Canteloup, Thierry Garcia and Marc-Antoine le Bret), to voice hundreds of characters. Yves Lecoq did about half of the male voices, and Sandrine Alexi did all the female voices.

** The show had a localized version in the Spanish station of Canal+ (''Las Noticias del Guiñol'') and its influence can be seen in later Spanish sketch programs like TVE's ''La Hora de José Mota'' and Creator/TV3's ''Polònia'', even though the parodies are done this time by human actors.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much inevitable given that, over thirty years, the show satirized political majorities/parties that don't exist anymore or are not in power anymore, currencies that don't exist anymore ([[UsefulNotes/OldFrenchMoney the franc before 2002]]), sport, political or media personalities who are now deceased (from president François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Chirac and Music/MichaelJackson all the way to Creator/JohnnyHallyday and Osama bin Laden), soccer teams that were once laughingstocks and now dominate the French championship (like the Paris Saint-Germain), defunct RealityTV shows... the list goes on and on.