Line #1 Trivia/LesGuignolsDeLInfo


1	* 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 needed to be 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.
2	* ApprovalOfGod: One of the rare celebrities who loved his puppet in the show was Music/SergeGainsbourg (who was a fan of the early show in general shortly before his death).
3	* BeamMeUpScotty: Some {{catchphrase}}s were never actually said by the people the puppets satirize but became publicly associated with them nonetheless due to the show's popularity.
4	* 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-like mannerisms, but instead they "[[GodwinsLaw portrayed him like a Nazi]]".
5	* {{Defictionalization}}: There are real, voice-activated "boîtes à coucou" (Cuckoo Boxes) toys inspired by Johnny Hallyday's in the show.
6	* FakeNationality: Inevitable when French voice actors voice puppets modelled after people from all over the world.
7	* FollowTheLeader:
8	** The success of ''Series/LeBebeteShow'' spawned a rival in ''Les Guignols de l'info''. ''Le Bébête Show'' itself would attempt to follow the example of ''Les Guignols'' by abandoning its ''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]]'' puppet caricatures in favor of regular human puppets, and failed.
9	** ''Les Guignols de l'info'' could be considered a French version of ''Series/SpittingImage''. Probably inspired others, such as caricaturist Serge Chapleau in Québec, who created ''Et Dieu Créa Laflaque'' ("And God Created Laflaque"), which follows a similar formula of making fun of events in the news, talking to exaggerated versions of political and cultural faces.
10	** 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 [=TV3=]'s ''Polònia'', even though the parodies are done this time by human actors.
11	* LongRunners: The show lasted from August 1988 all the way to June 2018.
12	* PropRecycling:
13	** The French and Spanish versions shared puppets, and the puppets of people who are famous in one country are sometimes recycled as average, non-famous citizens in the other. This can be bizarre if you watch either version while being familiar with the other, because the host puppet (PPD in ''Les Guignols'', [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_xv9Is9Altk/U9fMtnYoKlI/AAAAAAAAFpg/m8gxgcAIZpA/s1600/4hpinoguinol.jpg Hilario Pino]] in ''Los Guiñoles'') is particularly prone to this.
14	** ''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. Of note, writer Arnold Boiseau (who started ''Les Arènes de l'info'' -- the first seasons of ''Les Guignols'') also created ''Les Minikeums''.
15	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When billionaire 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 (regarding France at least, the show still had plenty of TakeThat for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump for instance), 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.
16	* 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 (he's 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.
17	* WorkingTitle: According to a [[https://twitter.com/LesGuignols/status/1698365233654374784 2023 social media post]], the original title for this show was "''Les Odieux Visuels''".

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