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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Éric Métayer, Jean Benguigui, Catherine Barma, Jérémy Michalak, Laurent Ruquier, Michèle Bernier.]]

''On n'demande qu'à en rire'' ("We ask only to laugh at it"), often abbreviated as ''ONDAR'', is a French [[SketchComedy sketch comedy]] [[TalentShow talent show]] created by comedian and TV and radio host Laurent Ruquier and produced by him and Catherine Barma. It involves little-known aspiring comedians performing before a panel of judges (the "jury") for the chance to return to the programme. Each of the four jury members scores them out of 20, as does the audience: the scores are added together, and comedians with at least 60/100 may return for future broadcasts.

The show has been broadcast daily on France 2 for four series, starting in September 2010. For the first two, daily shows were presented by Laurent Ruquier, who acted as the fourth jury member and scored the participants, but in the third the position was taken over by Jérémy Michalak, who does not score them. In the fourth, Michalak was replaced by Bruno Guillon.

''ONDAR'' has spawned [[UsefulNotes/PrimeTime prime time]] specials, the ''ONDAR Show'' (a {{spinoff}} in which the best comedians performed without judges; it was critically panned and did not return) and the series finale gala at the Casino de Paris. The daily shows ended in 2013 to make way for the new current affairs [[TalkShow talk show]] ''18H Précisément'', but ONDAR was brought back for a fourth series in 2014 after France 2 failed to get comparable viewing figures from other shows. The show is not expected to return for a fifth series.

Aside from a few rare Website/YouTube {{Fansub}}s, no consistent translation exists, and the series has never been broadcast in an English-speaking country.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral / ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Jérémy Ferrari in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67Ze2lxHH8 this sketch]].
* AudienceParticipationFailure: PlayedForLaughs by Mr Fraize when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-68Scx0bk0&t=184 he holds out his microphone]] to the audience while singing Cock Robin's "The Promise You Made" badly (in English).
* BackToFront: Arnaud Tsamere's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiplrn1uDBI sketch about a "backwards house"]].
* BlackComedy: Jérémy Ferrari.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
-->'''Jérémy Ferrari''': I do tennis and gang rape.
-->'''Arnaud Tsamere''': Oh my, ''tennis''?
* BrokenRecord / SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxeNgQbGlk&t=387 "Les limites de la spéculation philosophique et théorique de l'expérience de la gomme quantique à choix retardé"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ro8dHC8Rw#t=64 "Le début de la fin de tout et à la fin la fin comme au début"]]
* BrokeTheRatingScale: During a live show in which their votes did not count, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeg-zCpnBzo the jury decided]] to all give Olivier de Benoist zero points: this lead to Laurent [[EarpieceConversation being told]] that they had not yet voted, since 0 is presumably the default setting. When Éric Métayer revealed his score out loud, the production team caught on and displayed their 0s.
* CareBearStare: Jérémy Ferrari [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g3pYRxCTwM drives Arnaud Tsamere mad]] by literally dressing up as a [[Franchise/CareBears Care Bear]] and spewing sweet talk.
* CatchPhrase:
-->'''Laurent Ruquier''': ''On n'demande qu'à...''
-->'''Audience''': ''EN RIRE !''
** Arnaud Tsamere's "''Quoi ?!''"
* ClipShow: France 2's "best of" compilations.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Arnaud Tsamere is known for his SurrealHumor and whimsical themes, as well as [[TalkativeLoon telling long, rambling stories]].
* CringeComedy: Mr Fraize.
* DisabledMeansHelpless: Spectacularly averted by Guillaume Bats in Jérémy Ferrari's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xb8qPFupPg "Adoption for Dummies"]] sketch, when he displays a [[TheFagin Fagin-like]] savviness of how to extort people by begging.
* DisapprovingLook: Catherine Barma, if she finds a joke in poor taste.
* TheFunInFuneral / LonelyFuneral: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67Ze2lxHH8 this sketch]], Arnaud dances to [[SoundtrackDissonance Patrick Sébastien's "Tourner les serviettes"]] at Jérémy's funeral, which nobody else came to.
* FunWithForeignLanguages: Tsamere's name ("sa mère" means "his/her mother" in French) is sometimes jokingly translated into English ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNY74z4qjkM&t=191 or German]]).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNY74z4qjkM&t=205 "Elle tricote pour qui, pourquoi and for whom?"]]
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: When Arnaud Tsamere's stuffed [[{{Franchise/Tintin}} Snowy]] (Milou) is kicked off stage during Garnier and Sentou's sketch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SRJijBXaZE&t=480 he has to go and retrieve it]] from a female audience member.
* GratuitousEnglish: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHQb4qcnlM Many]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-68Scx0bk0 sketches]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4mWC0hqpg have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsU6lM2iYSE used]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTfzZYk2BI&t=101 English]], often [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny deliberately badly]].
* HandicappedBadass: Guillaume Bats.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Arnaud Tsamere's popular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ--q5y2e4k food sketch]] ([[http://www.reddit.com/r/French/comments/15vvem/can_someone_explain_all_the_fruitfood_references/c7q9rm1 explanation here]]).
* [[WeWantOurJerkBack I Want My Jerk Back]]: Arnaud Tsamère in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g3pYRxCTwM "Jérémy Ferrari is a Carebear"]] sketch. "Come back, buddy!"
* LastNameBasis: There is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6loPPcCdjE sketch about ''tutoiement'' and ''vouvoiement'']], based on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZhFEQ9Rdx0 Daniel Cohn-Bendit's tutoiement of François Hollande at the European Parliament]].
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vQvWlTTKCg&t=49 Tsamere and Ferrari]], with a splash of VitriolicBestBuds thrown in.
* LiveEpisode: The UsefulNotes/PrimeTime specials, and formerly once a week to allow the public to vote by telephone.
* MirrorRoutine / {{Slapstick}}: Garnier and Sentou in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SRJijBXaZE "Tintin in 3D"]].
* TheNapoleon: Host Jérémy Michalak is often picked on because of his height.
* PaperThinDisguise: Arnaud Tsamere, Garnier and Sentou [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhUcyuuYas went undercover]] to prank Laurent Ruquier and the jury by posing as a new group called "Les Potes'H"; despite [[LatexPerfection prosthetic makeup]] and [[WigDressAccent a change of dress and voice]], including Tsamere shaving off his trademark goatee for the first time in 7 years, they were recognised within minutes (leading Arnaud to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk off stage]]) and there was no [[TheReveal big reveal]].
* PenName: Arnaud Tsamere is listed under his real name, Arnaud Tsedri, in writing credits.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67Ze2lxHH8 this sketch]], Tsamere believes Ferrari to be dead because he misunderstood a TV programme about Ferrari in the Grand Prix.
* ProductPlacement: Played with when Tsamere [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxeNgQbGlk&t=494 offers Ferrari Laurent Ruquier's book]] ''Vu à la radio''.
-->'''Jérémy Ferrari''': Can't I have your watch instead?
* ScoreScreen: Each judge's score is revealed on a display on their podium; the public's score is counted up to build suspense.
** Averted when Arnaud Tsamere spilled water on Catherine Barma's and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuNPgpIao3s&t=380 she had to shout out her score]].
* SnubByOmission: Laurent converses with Jérémy Ferrari when he appears on the show in a duo with Arnaud Tsamere, neglecting to talk to the latter. The leads Arnaud to say "I'm here too, by the way!"
* {{Spinoff}}: The ''ONDAR Show'', which allowed the show's best performers to do sketches by themselves, with no jury.
* SpySpeak: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNY74z4qjkM "The Queen of England is knitting."]]
* StudioAudience: They vote for contestants, and often boo scores lower than around 16, or even lower than 20 if everyone else has given it.
* SurrealHumor: Arnaud Tsamere.
* TalentShow
* TranslationConvention: Lampshaded by Arnaud Tsamere while playing Jack Bauer talking to the President of the United States:
-->'''Arnaud Tsamere''': Yes, one ''euro'' 99. I know we're in the US, but we've been speaking French for five minutes!
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