History Creator / LesInconnus

** The interview segment of "C'est toi que je t'aime" has the interviewer asking who is the leader of the Negra Bouche Bite band. Everyone answers at the same time there's no leader, then one of them (Bernard Campan) authoritatively orders everyone to shut up, and...

** The interview segment of "C'est toi que je t'aime" has the interviewer asking who is the band's leader. Everyone answers at the same time there's no leader, then one of them authoritatively orders everyone to shut up, and...
--->There's no leader! I created the song and I play them, there's no leader.

** The interview segment of "C'est toi que je t'aime" has the interviewer asking who is the band's leader. Everyone answers at the same time there's no leader, then one of them authoritatively orders everyone to shut up... and reiterates the same answer.

* HypocriticalHumor: "We Have Enough of Rap" is a rap song which explains that rap is a dead genre.

* [[invoked]]UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Their sketches from ''La Télé des Inconnus'' are considered among the media that are the most representative of the French [[TheNineties 1990s]] since their brand of humor parodied music genres, {{soap opera}}s, {{game show}}s and a bit of politics of the era.

** Pascal Légitimus (who's of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n and Afro-Caribbean - UsefulNotes/{{Guadeloupe}}an - 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 UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela was released from prison towards the end of UsefulNotes/{{the Apartheid era}}).

Les Inconnus (literally "The Unknowns") was a ComicTrio 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). Their sketches savagely satirized all aspects of the French (or otherwise) cultural landscape, from show business to advertising, television and politics, and are still heavily referenced to this day.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} with "Auteuil Neuilly Passy", a SpiritualAntithesis to the above with privileged ''bourgeois'' from the richest districts of Paris [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense complaining]] about [[FirstWorldProblems how "hard" life is in their "ghettos"]].

** {{Subverted|Trope}} with "Auteuil Neuilly Passy", a SpiritualAntithesis to the above with privileged ''bourgeois'' from the richest districts of Paris [[FirstWorldProblems complaining about how "hard" life is in their "ghettos"]].

** {{Subverted|Trope}} with "Auteuil Neuilly Passy" is a SpiritualAntithesis to the above, with privileged ''bourgeois'' from the richest districts of Paris [[FirstWorldProblems complaining about how "hard" life is in their "ghettos"]].

* ConsciousHipHop: "C'est ton destin" ("It's your destiny") is a parody of the French hip hop culture of TheNineties that blossomed in the ''banlieues'' (suburbs with heavy concentrations of populations stemming from non-European immigration, unemployment, drug trade and general hatred of police forces -- all thematics are reprised in the song).

** The TV show ''Series/ClubDorothee'', which massively 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.

Les Inconnus (literally "The Unknowns") was a ComicTrio 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). Their sketches savagely satirized all aspects of the French cultural landscape, from show business to advertising, television and politics, and are still heavily referenced to this day.

Les Inconnus (literally "The Unknowns") was a ComicTrio 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).

** Pascal Légitimus (who's of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n and Afro-Caribbean - UsefulNotes/{{Guadeloupe}}an - 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 UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela's liberation towards the end of UsefulNotes/{{the Apartheid era}}).

* YouHaveToHaveJews: Parodied in "Andersen the Viking". The sketch is a long CreditsGag in which ''all'' the names in the credits are listed as "Bensoussan"[[note]]A common Jewish surname in North Africa[[/note]] (from the Norse lead roles to the film's crew)... except the "Merchant of Jerusalem" (the sole Jewish role) who's played by a gentile with a non-Jewish French name, and the "villains", who are played by actors with Arabic names.

-->'''Didier Bourdon:''' Hello, I'm Didier Bourdon, I'm a member of Les Inconnus. I'm preparing a show for Les Inconnus on Antenne 2. Err... I've been said you're preparing a porn movie, can I watch for a while?

** Pascal Légitimus (who's of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n and Afro-Caribbean - UsefulNotes/{{Guadeloupe}}an - 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}}).

** Pascal Légitimus (who's of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n and UsefulNotes/{{Guadeloupe}}an 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}}).

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'' (literally ''TV of the Unknowns''), which premiered in 1990 and ran with great success 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'').

* TheSavageSouth: The French version. Several characters have a very thick Marseilles accent, who are either criminals or racists or both.

* BadBadActing: In the porn parody "Virginie ou c'est le métier qui rentre", the acting of Campan, Légitimus, and the two female extras is abysmal (bad acting is a common critic about the genre.) Bourdon plays his own role (he barges in during the film's shooting) and his acting is ''way'' better.

-->'''New Anchorman:''' Accident? Stupid accident which yesterday evening caused the death of Baptiste Fitucchi, well-known director of the Marseille's Croix-Sourire clinic, and manager of the Macumba's Night night club. While he was quietly sleeping next to his chainsaw, it turned on on its own, and sliced the poor man, who jumped down the window to escape from it, then landed in a barrel of fresh concrete which has been discovered immersed off the Old Port this morning. However, police doesn't rule the suicide hypothesis out.[[note]]Marseille is notorious for its crime rate and its Mafia-related activities[[/note]]

* ExactWords: In a SoapOpera parody skit, at one point one character says to another: "Mets-toi à ma place". They immediately switch their place on the sofa they were sitting on.[[note]]It normally means "put yourself in my shoes", but a literal translation would be "put yourself in my place".[[/note]]

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'', ''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.

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'' (literally ''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'').

** One skit consists in the three Inconnus in their own role going through the press to find reviews of on of their shows.

* WhatsUpKingDude: "The Revolution" is about the rehearsal of a schoolplay made to commemorate the 200th aniversary of the Storming of the Bastille; Bourdon and Legitimus play two schoolboys, respectively cast as Louis XVI and as an AllegoricalCharacter standing for the people.[[note]]Campan plays their teacher[[/note]] The first encounter between the king and the crowd is this:
-->'''Louis XVI:''' Hello people, how are you doing?
-->'''The People:''' [high-five] Fine, and you?