History Creator / LesInconnus

After ''Les Trois Frères'' came out, their manager Paul Lederman claimed ownership on their group name by lawsuit, causing them to drop the use of it, and they never made sketches together again. Several films have featured at least two former members together since. 2001's ''Les Rois mages'' (''The Three Magis'') and the 2014 sequel to ''Les Trois Frères'', ''[[{{Sequel}} Les Trois Frères: Le Retour]]'' (''The Three Brothers are back'') reunited them all. Most of said movies were written and directed by Bourdon and Campan.

* ParodyAssistance: In 1992, they made a parody of the long-running gameshow ''Series/FortBoyard'' titled ''Fort Boyaux'' ("Fort Bowels"). Which was filmed... entirely at Fort Boyard, with the help of the usual team responsible for the show, including current show host Sophie Davant AsHerself. Recreating such an iconic set elsewhere would have been very hard (and costly).

-->"''[Chanting]'' Each good you detain is a worry which represses you. ''[Normal tone]'' And Skippy helps us to get rid of all our worries."

** Pascal Légitimus (who's of Armenian and Guadeloupean descent) put darker makeup on to play a South-African anchor who's revealed to be handcuffed and forced to host a news broadcast disguising the country's reality (this was right after Nelson Mandela's liberation towards the end of UsefulNotes/{{the Apartheid era}}).

* SupernaturalRepellent: At one point in the "Rap-tout" skit, the vampire taxmen are repelled by a man wielding a Monaco passport. The fact that said passport sports a cross isn't the important thing; Monaco is a well-known tax haven.

** ''Inverted'' in a skit (a talk-show parody), where Legitimus' face in covered in white make-up.

* {{Blackface}}: Pascal Légitimus (who's of Armenian and Guadeloupean descent) put darker makeup on to play a South-African anchor who's revealed to be handcuffed and forced to host a news broadcast disguising the country's reality (this was right after Nelson Mandela's liberation towards the end of UsefulNotes/{{the Apartheid era}}).

** Three of their commercials' parodies were based on horror movies : the first two came from ''The Kiss'' (1988), featuring a rabid cat-demon attacking people, and are used as cat food commercials ("You still haven't served his Krit-and-Krat !"). Even worse, a scene from ''Film/{{Dolls}}'', where a woman is slowly stabbed, sliced and beaten by living puppets, ends with a German-accented voice-over which says : "Ach ! It's almost Christmas : think about our [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Klaus Barbie]] dolls !" Some children didn't remember [[NightmareFuel fondly]] these parodies.

* SupernaturalRepellent: At a point in the "Rap-tout" skit, the vampire taxmen are repelled by a man wielding a Monaco passport (Monaco is a well-known tax haven).

** Three of their commercials' parodies were based on horror movies : the first two came from ''The Kiss'' (1988), featuring a rabid cat-demon attacking people, and are used as cat food commercials ("You still haven't served his Krit-and-Krat !"). Even worse, a scene from ''Film/{{Dolls}}'', where a woman is slowly stabbed, sliced and beaten by living puppets, ends with a German-accented voice-over which says : "Ach ! It's almost Christmas : think about our [[NaziGermany Klaus Barbie]] dolls !" Some children didn't remember [[NightmareFuel fondly]] these parodies.

** Three of their commercials' parodies were based on horror movies : the first two came from ''The Kiss'' (1988), featuring a rabid cat-demon attacking people, and are used as cat food commercials ("You still haven't served his Krit-and-Krat !"). Even worse, a scene from ''Film/Dolls'', where a woman is slowly stabbed, sliced and beaten by living puppets, ends with a German-accented voice-over which says : "Ach ! It's almost Christmas : think about our [[NaziGermany Klaus Barbie]] dolls !" Some children didn't remember [[NightmareFuel fondly]] these parodies.

* BlackComedy: "Chilean News Bulletin" has the journalists being immediately gunned down after telling bad news during the television news (said "bad news" being harmless things like "the national team lost a match"). At the end of the skit, the weathercaster frantically removes each rain forecasts from the Chile's map right before the start of the weather bulletin, then meekly announces there will be "a tiny spot of rain, just here" (the one he forgot to remove), and gets shot, too.

* LoonyFan: Véronique in "Télémagouille", who's obsessed with princess Stéphanie de Monaco.

They were five originally (with Seymour Brussel and Smaïn, who both left), when they had their first successes on stage in TheEighties as Les Cinq ("The Five"). When reduced to three, they took the name "Les Inconnus" and became famous for their parodic sketch comedy TV show ''La Télé des Inconnus'' (''TV of the Unknowns''), which premiered in 1990 and ran until 1993 on the Antenne 2 channel (renamed France 2 since). They made their theatrical debut in 1995 with the comedy ''Film/TheThreeBrothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'').

After ''Les Trois Frères'' came out, their manager Paul Lederman claimed ownership on their group name by lawsuit, causing them to drop the use of it, and they never made sketches together again. Several films have featured at least two former members together since. 2001's ''Les Rois mages'' (''The Three Magis'') and the 2014 sequel to ''Les Trois Frères'', ''[[{{Sequel}} Les Trois Frères: Le Retour]]'' (''The Three Brothers are back'') feature them all. Most of said movies were written and directed by Bourdon and Campan.

Les Inconnus (literally "The Unknowns") was a trio of French humorists and actors, the success of which peaked in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]]. It was composed of Didier Bourdon (born January 22, 1959 in Alger), Bernard Campan (born April 4, 1958 in Agen) and Pascal Légitimus (born March 13, 1959 in Paris).

* DeconstructiveParody: "Whoopee Morning" parodies morning shows with the twist being that animators of shows broadcasted very early in the morning chronically lack from sleep. Not only everyone has ExhaustedEyeBags and a somewhat slow, exhausted sounding speech pattern, but their exhaustion has predictible consequences (PlayedForLaughs), like the cook chopping his hand while showing a recipe or the gym coach falling asleep during the fitness segment.

* BlatantLies: The "Nuclear Power Plant" skit is about a nuclear power plant's director reassuring the audience about nuclear power being a safe source of energy. During his speech, the guy looks more and more diseased, coughs, pukes some sort of slime, and gets a third arm growing from his back. At one point, he's also interrupted by one of his employees, who looks and sounds exactly like a stereotypical [[TheIgor Igor]].

** The TV program ''Series/ClubDorothee'', which introduced France to anime among other things, got its fair share of ridiculing by Les Inconnus, specially their singer Bernard Minet (who sang cheesy [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong French openings for some animes]]), for it was considered as purely commercial and dumb.

* {{Yellowface}}: As with blackface, some sketches has the trio putting yellow make-up as in "Biouman" or "Les Envahisseurs".

** The TV program ''Club Dorothée'', which introduced France to anime among other things, got its fair share of ridiculing by Les Inconnus, specially their singer Bernard Minet (who sang cheesy [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong French openings for some animes]]), for it was considered as purely commercial and dumb.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: There's a few skits when Pascal Légitimus is disguised as a woman. He still has his moustache. (Somewhat masked by make-up, but not much.)

* GirlsWithMoustaches: There's a few skits when Pascal Légitimus is disguised as a woman. He still has his moustache.

* CrosscastRole: When their sketches included a female character, she was usually played by Bernard Campan with a wig, makeup and effeminate voice. And whenever a character from their movies has to be DisguisedInDrag, it's Campan again.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: There's a few skit when Pascal Légitimus is disguised as a woman. He still has his moustache.

They were five originally (with Seymour Brussel and Smaïn, who both left), when they had their first successes on stage in TheEighties as Les Cinq ("The Five"). When reduced to three, they took the name "Les Inconnus" and became famous for their parodic sketch comedy TV show ''La Télé des Inconnus'' (''TV of the Unknowns''), which premiered in 1990 and ran until 1993 on the Antenne 2 channel (renamed France 2 since). They made their theatrical debut in 1995 with the comedy ''Les Trois Frères'' (''Film/TheThreeBrothers'').

They were five originally (with Seymour Brussel and Smaïn, who both left), when they had their first successes on stage in TheEighties as Les Cinq ("The Five"). When reduced to three, they took the name Les Inconnus and became famous for their parodic sketch comedy TV show ''La Télé des Inconnus'' (''TV of the Unknowns''), which premiered in 1990 and ran until 1993 on the Antenne 2 channel (renamed France 2 since). They made their theatrical debut in 1995 with the comedy ''Les Trois Frères'' (''Film/TheThreeBrothers'').