Line #568 Characters/LesGuignolsDeLInfo


1	Some prominent characters seen in the French {{Puppet Show\|s}} ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo''.
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3	[[foldercontrol]]
4
5	!!French TV Personalities
6
7	!!!'''Canal+'''
8
9	[[folder:PPD]]
10	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ppd.jpg]]
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12	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
13
14	The host of the show, a puppet based on [=TF1=] prime time news presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor ("PPDA" in acronym form, the A was taken off for the puppet).
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16	* TheArtifact: In RealLife, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor stopped presenting the prime time news of [=TF1=] in 2008, but that didn't prevent this version of him from presenting ''Les Guignols de l'Info'' for close to another decade.
17	* CharacterCatchphrase:
18	** "You're watching the ancestor of Internet, good evening."
19	** "You're watching too much television, good evening."
20	* [[invoked]]ChannelHop: He works for Canal+ in the show and not for [=TF1=].
21	* DeadpanSnarker: Once a news ends, he oftens leaves a dry humor comment on it.
22	* GreenEyedMonster: He once strangled his fellow presenter Guy Lux for being more popular than him and during Harry Roselmack's tenure on the show as his co-host, he was always rude and insulting to him.
23	* NiceGuy: He's unfailingly polite and generally well-meaning, except when he interviews terrorists and the like or gets a little hypocritical. Or gets replaced as host.
24	* OnlySaneMan: Often [[{{Facepalm}} facepalmed]] after hearing the others' antics. He was the AudienceSurrogate and his reactions were meant to matched the spectator's.
25	[[/folder]]
26
27	[[folder:Michel Denisot]]
28	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/micheldenisot.jpg]]
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30	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
31
32	A puppet based on TV producer and host Michel Denisot, who worked at Canal+ until 2013.
33	----
34	* ApologisesALot: He always says "Désolé..." on a sheepish tone after failing to do something.
35	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Désolé..." ("Sorry").
36	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: It doesn't matter what he plans to do for Canal+, it's always doomed to end up an EpicFail.
37	[[/folder]]
38
39	[[folder:Dominique Farrugia]]
40	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/farrugia.jpg]]
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42
43	A puppet based on comedian Dominique Farrugia, who worked at Canal+ for over 20 years.
44	----
45	* AnnoyingLaugh: His laughs sound like sea lion barkings, and actually attracted such animals on set on occasion.
46	* GagPenis: He likes drawing penises. Even when he has to do statistics, somehow the curves he draws always end up looking like penises.
47	* TheHyena: He laughs a lot.
48	[[/folder]]
49
50	[[folder:Alain De Greef]]
51	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alaindegreef.jpg]]
52	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
53	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
54
55	A puppet based on Canal+'s director of programs from 1984 to 2001 who created the show.
56	----
57	* TheAlcoholic: If he doesn't look sleepy half the time, then he's drunk the other half.
58	* CharacterCatchphrase:
59	** "Ça va pas..." ("Not going well...").
60	** " 'cule un mouton.." ("-uck a sheep in the ass...") whenever he has to explain why someone [[BestialityIsDepraved sodomising a sheep]] is funny.
61	* FormulaForTheUnformulable: He spends quite a few minutes explaining to a Canal+ jury how [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a journalist sodomizing a sheep is funny]]... with equations and statistics.
62	* LifeOfTheParty: Spends most of his time partying in a nightclub where Corona's [[https://youtu.be/ZniVTr2trGY "This is the Rhythm of the Night"]] plays.
63	* OneHourWorkWeek: He's employed by Canal+ to do exactly ''one'' thing: approving the programs for the year, with a signature on a paper. He spends the rest of his time partying in nightclubs.
64	* {{Sleepyhead}}: Since he spends his nights in nightclubs, he always looks like he's ready to sleep by day.
65	* TheUnintelligible: He mumbles ''a lot'' when speaking.
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	[[folder:Laurent Weil]]
69	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laurentweil.png]]
70
71	A puppet based on Canal+'s chief movie journalist. Often used during the annual Cannes Film Festival season.
72	----
73	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Whenever he tries to have an interview with actors or directors, something happens and he doesn't manage to get one.
74	** In 2005, each time he tried to interview director Creator/EmirKusturica, a fanfare of Serbian peasants showed up and played the melody of "Daddy, Don't Ever Die on a Friday" (from Kusturica's movie ''Film/BlackCatWhiteCat''), ruining the interview.
75	** In 2006, he tried to interview prominent movie stars. The only "stars" he managed to interview? Insignificant animated film characters, Franchise/KingKong and Creator/ChristopherLambert (who's a complete moron in the show).
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Denis Chalandier & Michel Lecomte]]
79	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/denischalandier.jpg]]
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81
82	Denis Chalandier is a fictional Canal+ journalist, and he's always accompanied by Michel Lecomte, his sarcastic cameraman.
83	----
84	* BrutalHonesty: Michel voices his thoughts out without filter, much to the embarrassment of Denis.
85	* DeadpanSnarker: Michel always sarcastically comments on the journalist's stupidity or the stupidity of the news he's filming. It can veer into BrutalHonesty.
86	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Denis gets absolutely zero respect from Michel and never finds himself able to react or make Michel shut up.
87	* TheFaceless: Michel's face is never seen.
88	* ServileSnarker: Michel audibly wishes he had another job than having to film a stupid journalist and never stops his jabs at Denis or the news subject.
89	* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen/heard together.
90	* TooDumbToLive: Michel in particular. During an interview with Osama bin Laden in his cave, he keep indirectly insulting him, being rude and asking him outrageous questions.
91
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	!!!'''[=TF1=]'''
95
96	[[folder:Patrick Le Lay]]
97	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lelayguignols.jpg]]
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99	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
100
101	A puppet based on the CEO of the [=TF1=] channel from 1988 to 2008.
102	----
103	* BrutalHonesty: Always bluntly tells how he's just there to milk stupid TV programs to make money off the "available brain time" of French viewers.
104	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He only cares about audience ratings (in his TruthInTelevision words "We sell available brain time to Coca Cola"), no matter how stupid and brainless the programming. He can get as amoral as trying to imitate a RealityTV from rival channel [=M6=] with [[invoked]][[CrossesTheLineTwice a woman having to escape a bunch of rapist candidates]]... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace with songs]].
105	* {{Jerkass}}: Quite an unpleasant jerk overall.
106	* [[invoked]]MoneyDearBoy: He lives and breathes "making money through appeal to the [[invoked]]LowestCommonDenominator" and doesn't hide it.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Thierry Roland]]
110	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thierryroland.jpg]]
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112	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
113
114	A puppet based on sports journalist and soccer commentator Thierry Roland.
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116	* HollywoodTourettes: A sketch suggested that he is afflicted with Tourette Syndrome considering the amount of insults he regularly lets out... only to conclude he's just [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]].
117	* {{Jerkass}}: He can't do a phrase without insulting the person he talks to, and it's actually ''not'' Tourette Syndrome, and mocks soccer players on a regular basis when commenting matches.
118	* SirSwearsALot: He's quite foul-mouthed.
119	[[/folder]]
120
121	[[folder:Pascal Bataille & Laurent Fontaine]]
122	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bataillefontaineguignols.jpg]]
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124
125	Puppets based on TV show hosts Pascal Bataille (right on the picture) and Laurent Fontaine (left on the picture), who most famously hosted the confession show ''Y a que la vérité qui compte'' ("Only Truth Matters").
126	----
127	* FatAndSkinny: Fontaine is shorter and fatter than Bataille .
128	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Fontaine always has a sadistic expression on his face, and wears glasses.
129	* LeanAndMean: Bataille is tall and lean, and sadistic.
130	* TheMenInBlack: One sketch had them as "[[Franchise/MenInBlack the Men in Blue and Red]]" (referring to [=TF1=]'s color pattern), agents of [=TF1=] who are tasked to find healthy and balanced families who don't watch much TV (and no mind-numbing TV especially) in order to [[MemoryWipingCrew neuralize them so they'll forget about their fulfilling lives]] and make them continually watch [=TF1=]'s stupid cash grab programs instead.
131	* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together.
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	[[folder:Jean-Pierre Foucault]]
135	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rue_gu10.jpg]]
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137
138	A puppet based off veteran TV host Jean-Pierre Foucault, who hosted variety shows and the French version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' among others.
139	----
140	* CharacterCatchphrase: There's a RunningGag in which, whenever he hosts ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', he always brings up "[[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]]" as the "D" answer.
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	!!!'''France 3'''
144
145	[[folder:Marc-Olivier Fogiel & Zaza the Hyena]]
146	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fogielguignols.jpg]]
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148
149	A puppet based on TV and radio host Marc-Olivier Fogiel. He is often accompanied by his pet hyena, Zaza.
150	----
151	* HeinousHyena: Zaza laughs along with Fogiel whenever he mocks/humiliates someone.
152	* TheHyena: Laughs with glee at the woes of people he invites in his shows. It's even {{invoked\|Trope}} with his literal hyena pet, who laughs along with him.
153	* {{Jerkass}}: Fogiel cannot utter a phrase without trying to find something to KickTheDog out of and verbally humiliate someone, be it people he interviews in his shows or those he talks to elsewhere (including PPD). He even laughed at PPD once... for ''resembling a human being'', implying he's proud of being a jerk of inhuman proportions.
154	* RaisedByWolves: In a skit parodying ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', he was saved as a baby by a female gorilla and left to be raised by... hyenas. Seeing how he turned out, the gorilla regretted she didn't do the same thing as Bagheera, that is, giving him to wolves.
155	* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Fogiel is a jerkass supreme, and has a hyena pet who laughs with him.
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	!!UsefulNotes/{{Fr\|ance}}ench [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem Heads of State, Governments & Politics]]
159
160	!!!'''[[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfFrance Presidents of the Fifth French Republic]]'''
161
162	[[folder:Charles de Gaulle]]
163	[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cdgguignols.jpg]]
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165
166	A puppet based on UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle, who was the leader of the Free French during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and President from 1958 to 1969.
167	----
168	* CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven: He was often seen in sketches set in Heaven.
169	* PosthumousCharacter: He died 18 years before the show debuted, all of his depictions in it are either reconstitutions of historical events or CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven.
170	* WingedHumanoid: He has angel wings with feathers in {{Heaven}}. They get replaced by Creator/{{Apple}}-[=made=] wings when UsefulNotes/SteveJobs arrives there after his passing.
171	[[/folder]]
172
173	[[folder:François Mitterrand]]
174	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitterrandguignols.jpg]]
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176
177	A puppet based on François Mitterrand, who was President from 1981 to 1995.
178	----
179	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Béciles!" (shortened "Imbeciles!").
180	* CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven: He has showed up in {{Heaven}} from time to time after the death of his RealLife counterpart in 1996.
181	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Combined "Jerkass" and "Scheming", mostly.
182	* StealthInsult: A master at delivering backhanded compliments.
183	* SurroundedByIdiots: How he felt, since the intelligence of most government members and politicians surrounding him in the show at the time couldn't match his.
184	* VoodooDoll: Had one that he used against political personalities he had particular hatred against.
185	* WingedHumanoid: He has angel wings with feathers in {{Heaven}}. They get replaced by Creator/{{Apple}}-[=made=] wings when UsefulNotes/SteveJobs arrives there after his passing.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:Jacques Chirac]]
189	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chiracguignols.png]]
190	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
191	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
192
193	A puppet based on Jacques Chirac, who was President from 1995 to 2007.
194	----
195	* BigEater: The show exaggerated his love of the veal head, almost turning him into an ExtremeOmnivore loving the weirdest dish of French Cuisine.
196	* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most popular character from the show, and the puppet kept reappearing for quite some time after the end of Chirac's presidency in RealLife.
197	* CorruptPolitician: But of course, though he's always done his best to hide it behind his charmer persona and endearingly goofy antics.
198	* HotGuyUglyWife: The show portrayed his wife Bernadette like an ugly crone while playing up his charmer persona.
199	* HopelessWithTech: He was consistently shown to be unable to use computers, and always referred to the computer mouse as a "mulot" (a sort of farm mouse).
200	* IHatePastMe: Played for Laughs in a sketch where he was furious against his past self making empty promises and now having to uphold them now that he was president.
201	* JerkassToOne: Chirac really ''really'' hated Nicolas Sarkozy, He was barely cordial with him, never missed a chance to mock his height, wrecked his favourite restaurant and was sad that Sarkozy survived a syncope.
202	* LovableRogue: He's an unrepentant crook, but he's also charming as hell.
203	* {{Mascot}}: For a time his face was used more than PPD's to advertise the show.
204	* ObfuscatingDisability: He once simulated blindness in order to wreak havoc in Nicolas Sarkozy's favorite restaurant.
205	* ObfuscatingInsanity: His main strategy whenever he is accused of something? Pretending he's getting senile with age.
206	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Combines "Personable", "Corrupt", "Scheming", "Buffoon", "Playboy" and, yes, a bit of "Unmodified".
207	* {{Superhero}}: Had a superhero identity with the self-explanatory moniker "[[BlatantLies Super-Liar]]" during the 2002 presidential campaign.
208	* RefugeInAudacity: Sometimes used this to escape scrutiny during scandals or to make himself more popular, like pretending he was born in the French Caribbean and was formerly black.
209	* WackyParentSeriousChild: The wacky parent to his daughter: Claude, who always called him by his last name, [[TruthInTelevision like her real counterpart was known to do.]]
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Nicolas Sarkozy]]
213	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarkozyguignols.jpg]]
214	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
215	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
216
217	A puppet based on Nicolas Sarkozy, who was Minister of the Economy in 2004, Minister of the Interior ("First Cop of France") from 2005 to 2007, and eventually President from 2007 to 2012.
218	----
219	* AttentionWhore: One sketch had him being ''[[GRatedDrug addicted to cameras]]'', frantically seeking to be filmed one way or another.
220	* BadBoss: He was never kind to his ministers and among other things, he refused to give them the money he embezzled from Liliane Bettencourt despite them participated in his scheme. He tricked the minister Rama Yade to start the Vendée Globe while she was on a participating boat after she contradicted him in the press and forced his ministers to spent their summer holidays in the less touristic (and most rainy) parts of France while he got to enjoy a private beach on the French Riviera the year before the presidential election.
221	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Tried to be this during his tenure as a Minister under Chirac's presidency by pretending to be a SycophanticServant but Chirac wasn't fooled.
222	* ConspicuousConsumption: He loves to buy expensive things just because they're expensive and show off, especially if he does so with money he embezzled.
223	* ElderAbuse: Once the Liliane Bettencourt affair was revealed, the show portrayed Sarkozy as the one directly embezzling the elderly and filthy rich heiress of L'Oréal by taking advantage of her senility like pretending to be De Gaulle or sending his government trick or treating her for money in the middle of summer.
224	* TheNapoleon: Short in size, and has a bad temper to match this.
225	* {{Nepotism}}: The show had a field day mocking Sarkozy's various attempts at putting his inept son Jean in posts of high responsibility.
226	* NouveauRiche: How he was portrayed in his early presidency, who among other things tried to impress Obama with a litteral golden plane.
227	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Combines "Corrupt", "Jerkass", "Scheming" and "Buffoon".
228	* TheStarscream: Prior to the 2007 election, he tried everything to get rid of Jacques Chirac and usurp the presidency, while being a minister in Chirac's government.
229	* UglyGuyHotWife: Since he's married to singer and model Carla Bruni, which the show treated as a TrophyWife.
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder:François Hollande]]
233	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hollandeguignols.jpg]]
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235	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nicolas Canteloup
236
237	A puppet based on François Hollande, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party who became President from 2012 to 2017.
238	----
239	* BigEater: Before he lost weight at least.
240	* BumblingDad: Was this for Emmanuel Macron when the latter was portrayed as a baby.
241	* TheDitz: Portrayed as mostly stupid and having ended up President almost by accident.
242	* FormerlyFat: Got a new, more slender puppet following his RealLife counterpart's loss of weight. Then one day failed 2012 Socialist candidate to the presidential candidacy Martine Aubry put him through a sadistic ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-[=like=] ordeal, forcing him to eat a ton of sausages and a gigantic biscuit to free himself, [[FatteningTheVictim causing him to be fat again]].
243	* TheKlutz: Quite clumsy in addition to being clueless.
244	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Mostly "Buffoon".
245	* VerbalTic: Often lets out something akin to "Uuuuhuuugghhh" with a SimpletonVoice, which adds to his dumbness/cluelessness, especially after {{Epic Fail}}s of his making.
246	[[/folder]]
247
248	[[folder:Emmanuel Macron]]
249	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/macron1.png]]
250	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
251	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Sandrine Alexi (infant); Mathieu Schalk (adolescent and adult)
252
253	A puppet based on Emmanuel Macron, the former Minister of the Economy who became President in 2017.
254	----
255	* CluelessBoss: He doesn't understand why French people don't feel like partying and talking in Franglish like he does... while the country is constantly under the pressure of social and economic conflicts.
256	* FinalSeasonCasting: One of the final major characters added to the show, which was on its death throes when Macron came to power in 2017 (the show was cancelled in 2018).
257	* ForeignCultureFetish: Peppers his phrases with a lot of US English and even calls France "The United States of France".
258	* MauriceChevalierAccent: Speaks English with a pretty bad accent.
259	* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: In season 27 (2014-2015), Macron was originally an infant. This was changed in season 28 (2015-2016) where he became an adolescent and again in seasons 29 and 30 (2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively) where he finally became an adult.
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	!!!'''Prime Ministers'''
263
264	[[folder:Lionel Jospin]]
265	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jospinguignols.jpg]]
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267	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
268
269	A puppet based off the Socialist politician who became the cohabitation Prime Minister from 1997 to 2002 under Jacques Chirac (who was a Right Wing president).
270	----
271	* TheBore: One sketch had François Hollande perform an [[Film/TheExorcist exorcism]] on him to try making him less boring (his elitist tastes include, among other things, Roland Petit's {{ballet}}s, the films of Raúl Ruiz and the literature of Alain Finkielkraut). Even amidst the exorcism, Jospin admitted (and is ''content'' with) being a bore.
272	* ButtMonkey: Whatever EpicFail the cohabitation government had (some due to President Chirac), Chirac himself always arranged for him to get the backlash.
273	* CharacterCatchphrase: [[SuddenlyShouting "PAYS DE MEEEEERDE!"]] ("SHITTY COUNTRYYYY!"). He ended most of his sketches with this after his humiliating defeat at the Presidential Election of 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen pulled a better score than him that eliminated him at the first round.
274	* HeroicBSOD: He was in a catatonic state after his defeat and until the end of the second round of 2002.
275	* MyGreatestFailure: Can't get over having been eliminated at the first round of the 2002 Presidential Election.
276	* TookALevelInJerkass: His defeat of the 2002 Presidential Election turned him from a very boring but relatively well-meaning character to someone that could barely make a sentence without insulting France and its people.
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	!!!'''Other French Politicians'''
280
281	[[folder:Bernard Tapie]]
282	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tapie.jpg]]
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284	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
285
286	A puppet based on Bernard Tapie, former minister, deputy and venture capitalist (in)famous for his business ventures that tended to turn into financial scandals.
287	----
288	* CatchphraseInsult: Always calls PPD "Joe la Fiotte" ("Joe the Fag").
289	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Often tries to talk himself out of the news whenever his infamous financial affairs come into the spotlight.
290	* CorruptPolitician: He's rather not talk about the affairs he was involved in during his political mandates (and not the others either).
291	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Always acts as the "manly man" whenever he's paired with another politician or businessman. It happened regularly when he was paired with Michel Rocard during the Mitterrand presidency.
292	[[/folder]]
293
294	[[folder:Roselyne Bachelot]]
295	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roselynebachelotguignols.jpg]]
296	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
297	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Sandrine Alexi
298
299	A puppet based on right wing politician Roselyne Bachelot, who was Minister of Youth and Sports then Minister of Health under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, then Minister of Solidarities and Social Cohesion under Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of Culture under Emmanuel Macron, then radio and TV host. [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Yeah]].
300	----
301	* AchievementsInIgnorance: Managed to confuse a [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-800]] so much thanks to her sheer stupidity that he gave up his mission of killing her to save the world from her catastrophic tenure as a Minister. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Reasoning than no one would be dumb enough to let her be one in the first place]].
302	* TheAllegedExpert: No matter the ministry she held, she was always completely inept at the subject and most of her interviews with PPDA either ended with him having to explain her some simple concept to her, and her failing to understand, or PPDA just giving up on the interview.
303	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Ah bon?" ("Really?" / "Is that so?") in surprise whenever she learns something she was supposed to know and didn't (which happens pretty much ''all the time'').
304	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Quite the airhead, and comes to conclusions that can only result from InsaneTrollLogic.
305	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Some of her "best" ideas are this, like proposing that oil tankers should travel ''without oil'' to prevents oil spills.
306	* TheDitz: She's quite stupid and completely unaware of it.
307	* LackOfEmpathy: Mainly during her tenure as Minister of Ecology. While discussing catastrophic floods, she said that the victims should adapt by surelevating their furniture and makes pottery from the mud in their house.
308	* LimitedWardrobe: Always dressed in the same pink suit.
309	* SayingTooMuch: After the time her real counterpart accidentelly revealed that Chirac needed hearing aid, She was sometimes seen speaking way too much about things. Among other things, she spoke way too much about Sarkozy's height insecurities when asking what kind of president he would be or her and her colleagues using their journalist card to have fun in sex-shop.
310	[[/folder]]
311
312	[[folder:Dominique Strauss-Kahn]]
313	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dsk.jpg]]
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315	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
316
317	A puppet based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, an economist, socialist politician and sex offender.
318	----
319	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Excusez-moi, je sors de la douche" ("Pardon me, I just got out of the shower").
320	* DirtyOldMan: Often makes {{Double Entendre}}s, and flashed chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo (the RealLife sexual assault case defender).
321	* LimitedWardrobe: Following the infamous real life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case]], the puppet ''always'' wore a cheetah bathrobe.
322	* {{Sexophone}}: He's a DirtyOldMan and is always accompanied by sax music.
323	[[/folder]]
324
325	[[folder:Jean-Luc Mélenchon]]
326	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlenchon.png]]
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328
329	A puppet based on Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Socialist politician who founded the far-left party Parti de Gauche (renamed La France Insoumise in 2016).
330	----
331	* AxCrazy: He's quite unhinged and rabid against the capitalistic order, "bourgeois" and right wing parties, and he's prone to murderous rage.
332	* DeathGlare: His default expression is to look angry at everyone and everything around him, which gets even worse when he's AxCrazy.
333	* DirtyCommunists: The main figure of the far-left in France since TheNewTens, and he's portrayed as quite AxCrazy and even [[OffWithHisHead cutting heads off]].
334	* GrumpyOldMan: When he's not being AxCrazy, he rants all the time.
335	* ReignOfTerror: Several sketches showed him like a [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution 18th century revolutionary]] who's eager to send people to the [[OffWithHisHead guillotine]].
336	* TutorialFailure: Would sometimes host DIY tutorials, always with crappy results.
337	[[/folder]]
338
339	!!Foreign Politics
340
341	!!!'''[[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates USA]]'''
342
343	[[folder:Bill Clinton]]
344	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/billclinton.png]]
345	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
346	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
347
348	A puppet based off [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton the 42nd U.S. President]].
349	----
350	* DisproportionateRetribution: He's sick and tired of foreign news talking endlessly about his sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, so each time he hears the news from a country, he ''attacks the country with missiles'', which amounts to ''a lot'' after a while. That's still not enough, so by the end he simply [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt torches the Earth]] with ''{{nuke\|em}}s''.
351	[[/folder]]
352
353	[[folder:George W. Bush]]
354	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wbushguignols.jpg]]
355	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
356	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
357
358	A puppet based off [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush the 43rd U.S. President]].
359	----
360	* TheDitz: Possibly the most stupid character ever seen in the show. ''Much'' TakeThat was involved especially as a response to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States#21st_century anti-French sentiment in the USA]] in 2003 when France refused to support [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the invasion of Iraq]].
361	* {{Manchild}}: Essentially portrayed as a toddler in a grown man's body.
362	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: "President Buffoon" through and through.
363	* SharedFamilyQuirks: The show's version of UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush was also portrayed as a stupid {{Manchild}} (only during George W.'s mandates however).
364	* ThrowTheDogABone: There's ''[[https://vimeo.com/424269337 one]]'' sketch where he wasn't depicted as a manchild-ish hopeless moron, when it was found out his brain got stuck in his pilot helmet. When the Mr. Sylvesters put the brain back in his head, he became shockingly competent, which prompted them to take it off again.
365	[[/folder]]
366
367	[[folder:Barack Obama]]
368	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barack_obama_les_guignols_de_l_info.jpg]]
369	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
370	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
371
372	A puppet based off [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama the 44th U.S. President]].
373	----
374	* JiveTurkey: He always talks in slang to sound hip and cool.
375	* NiceGuy: He's always affable and friendly.
376	* OnlySaneMan: Was this at first. A good example was when Obama confessed that he found Sarkozy "bizarre", after the latter showed him [[CoolPlane his presidential plane]] in a customized version that screams ConspicuousConsumption.
377	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Definitely "Personable". Had shades of "Puppet" too, much to his annoyance. And "Minority", of course.
378	* TopTenList: Regularly made a show of presenting his "Top 5" or "Top 10" about various random subjects. This was [[ShoutOut inspired by]] the routine of comedian Thomas Ngijol, who became known on Canal+.
379	[[/folder]]
380
381	[[folder:Donald Trump]]
382	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guignolstrump.png]]
383	%% [[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
384
385	A puppet based off [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump the 45th U.S. President]].
386	----
387	* LowerClassLout: One sketch called "Les Trumpche" was a {{parody}} of the French comedy film series ''Les Tuche'' about a lower class family that lacks manners and education, only with the Trump family. The [[SmallReferencePools only things they know]] about France? [[NationalStereotypes Berets, baguettes]] and "it's near Ride/{{Disneyland\|Paris}}".
388	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: "Jerkass", "Evil", "Corrupt" and most definitely "Buffoon".
389	* VillainousFriendship:
390	** Some sketches had him hang out with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. Including one that parodied ''Film/TheHangover'', set after a [[AfterTheEnd nuclear apocalypse]] with ''[[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong-un]]'' as the baby.
391	** He's also been invited for dinner by the far-right Le Pen family in France (Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal) in the aformentioned "Les Trumpche" sketch.
392	[[/folder]]
393
394	!!!'''[[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]]''' / '''UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}'''
395
396	[[folder:Mikhail Gorbachev]]
397	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gorbachechguignols.png]]
398	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
399
400	A puppet based off the [[UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev final leader of the Soviet Union]].
401	----
402	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In a 1991 sketch, he said he's sure USSR will last 3000 years.
403	* [[invoked]]OldShame: In a late 1990s sketch, he deeply regrets famously posing at a Pizza Hut when Russia entered a free market economy.
404	[[/folder]]
405
406	[[folder:Vladimir Putin]]
407	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1_903.jpg]]
408	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
409
410	A puppet based off [[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin the President (one time Prime Minister)]] of the Russian Federation since 1999.
411	----
412	* BlackComedy: This particular bit about UsefulNotes/TheChechnyaWars:
413	-->'''Putin:''' We find still standing building in Grozny and plant Russian flag.
414	-->'''PPD:''' Where do you see "victory"?
415	-->'''Putin:''' Finding still standing building in Grozny.
416	* DeathGlare: Whenever he's asked a question that's too "sensitive" about democracy, corruption, invading other countries (UsefulNotes/{{Georgia\|Caucasus}} in 2008, UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}'s Crimea and Donbas in 2014) and the like by PPD, his usual response is simply a menacing stare at PPD, who then gets scared shitless and doesn't insist further.
417	* HypnoticEyes: Tried hypnotizing UsefulNotes/AngelaMerkel, François Hollande and UsefulNotes/BarackObama in order to have them see no problem with UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia and what he's done in Ukraine in 2014... then Hollande told him it doesn't work, but Western leaders are too cowardly to do anything against him anyway.
418	* PresidentForLife: He doesn't see any issue with being reelected in office over and over again (or exchanging seats with Dmitry Medvedev when he can't be president), usually via some [[VoteEarlyVoteOften cheating at the elections]] that he always denies.
419	* TheVoiceless: There were entire sketches where he would be interviewed by PPD and not say a word, [[DeathGlare staring menacingly]] at the latter instead.
420	* YouNoTakeCandle: Usually speaks French this way, with few grammar, per the usual HuskyRusskie stereotype.
421	[[/folder]]
422
423	!!!'''UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}'''
424
425	[[folder:Saddam Hussein]]
426	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saddamhussein.jpg]]
427	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
428	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
429
430	A puppet based off the [[UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein President of Iraq]] from 1979 to 2003.
431	----
432	* BeleagueredBoss: He can't do much when American forces tear through his armies like a hot knife through butter during the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 2003 invasion]] and appears jaded of the whole thing. [[MilitariesAreUseless His troops being "modernized" with only mopeds]] didn't help.
433	* VillainousFriendship: He's friends with Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar in the show. He even attempted an escape from Baghdad with the both of them on their moped.
434	[[/folder]]
435
436	!!!'''UsefulNotes/{{Qatar}}'''
437
438	[[folder:Prince Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani & Leonardo]]
439	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princealthani_leonardo.jpg]]
440	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
441
442	A puppet based off the Prince of Qatar (its Emir since 2013). He is always accompanied by his interpreter, Leonardo.
443	----
444	* ArabOilSheikh: Al Thani, though he bought the Paris Saint-Germain [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] club to diversify his assets.
445	* CharacterCatchphrase: Leonardo's "La Prince il parle, mais pas à toi." ("Da Prince can talk, but won't talk to you.") whenever he is asked if Al Thani can talk.
446	* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator: Leonardo is technically this, as Al Thani can speak French fluently, as seen in skits only featuring the two. It's just that the prince doesn't bother to talk to people beneath him.
447	* ConspicuousConsumption: ''Everything'' is cheap for Prince Al Thani. The ''one and only'' thing he's ever considered as costly? Convincing UsefulNotes/ThePope to ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} pray Allah]]''. In the middle of a public audience at [[UsefulNotes/VaticanCity Saint Peter's Square]].
448	* TheVoiceless: Al Thani usually thinks too highly of himself to talk to people, his interpreter does for him. Though in later years he talked normally to the soccer players on his payroll.
449	[[/folder]]
450
451	!!Musicians
452
453	[[folder:Johnny Hallyday]]
454	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnnyguignols.jpg]]
455	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
456	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
457
458	A puppet based on the [[Creator/JohnnyHallyday famous singer]].
459	----
460	* AddledAddict: He became addicted to Cuckoo Boxes, and so tried to suppress said addiction with paper clips. Then he became addicted to paper clips. Then he took a medication against paper clips... and became addicted to said medication, and ended up taking a [[ExaggeratedTrope medication against the medication against the addiction to paper clips]]. PPD took pity on him and brought a Cuckoo Box to have him come back to his first addiction.
461	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He doesn't seem to be quite there, and in TheNineties he even had a device that he had childish glee playing with (and even [[GRatedDrug addiction]]) called "[[InvokedTrope The Cuckoo Box]]", which consisted in an egg springing out of a box saying "CUCKOO!".
462	* KitschCollection: He has a whole collection of Cuckoo Boxes, with some being themed after TheSixties, TheSeventies and TheEighties and even some saying something else than "Cuckoo!".
463	* VerbalTic: Always started his phrases with "Ah que...".
464	[[/folder]]
465
466	[[folder:Michael Jackson]]
467	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mj_gui13.jpg]]
468	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
469
470	A puppet based on the [[Music/MichaelJackson King of Pop]].
471	----
472	* ArtEvolution: The puppets depicting him changed as his physical appearance changed with vitiligo and plastic surgery.
473	* FriendToAllChildren: Claims to love children, but the show made not-so-subtle hints at the infamous RealLife child sexual abuse allegations against Jackson.
474	* {{Manchild}}: He was portrayed with "Peter Pan syndrome".
475	* WingedHumanoid: He has angel wings with feathers in {{Heaven}}. They get replaced by Creator/{{Apple}}-[=made=] wings when UsefulNotes/SteveJobs arrives there after his passing.
476	[[/folder]]
477
478	[[folder:[=JoeyStarr=]]]
479	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joeystarrguignols.jpg]]
480	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
481	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
482
483	A puppet based on French rapper Creator/JoeyStarr (real name Didier Morville), of Music/SupremeNTM fame.
484	----
485	* TheDitz: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
486	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength
487	* NoIndoorVoice: He always seems to be yelling angrily — even when perfectly calm. He also snores loud enough to wreck up his bedroom.
488	* ScaryBlackMan
489	* ThoseTwoGuys:
490	** Often seen paired with fellow Suprême NTM member Kool Shen in TheNineties.
491	** In [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], he was often paired with fellow rapper Doc Gynéco, who was depicted as a sleepy, slow-talking [[TheStoner stoner]] by contrast.
492	* VerbalTic: Like most rappers portrayed on the show, he ends every sentence with "Quoi !" ("What!" though in that case, it's closer to "Y'know!")
493	[[/folder]]
494
495	[[folder:Rihanna]]
496	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rihannalesguignols.jpg]]
497	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
498	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Sandrine Alexi
499
500	A puppet based on Barbadian singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman Music/{{Rihanna}}.
501	----
502	* FinalSeasonCasting: She was added very late into the show's run (around season 29), when the show was already on its last legs under Bolloré's rule.
503	* GratuitousEnglish: She often peppers her speech with some English at times.
504	* MsFanservice: Often shows up in sexy attire in a lot of the sketches she appears in.
505	[[/folder]]
506
507	!!Sportspeople
508
509	[[folder:Aimé Jacquet]]
510	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aimjacquetguignols.jpg]]
511	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
512	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
513
514	A puppet based on the trainer of the national French [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] team in TheNineties, which won the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] in 1998.
515	----
516	* BrutalHonesty: When he sees soccer teams that suck, he won't sugarcoat how badly he thinks they suck.
517	* DrivenToMadness: After his soccer trainer career ended, he found himself commenting matches of the (then-) epically boring French League 1 championship at Canal+. One day, he can't stand it anymore, snaps and takes his colleague {{hostage\|situation}}, threatening to [[ShootTheHostage shoot him]] if he doesn't get better competitions to comment.
518	* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: After the French team won the FIFA World Cup in 1998, PPDA started dressing as him and keep telling him he wants to be like him much to his irritation.
519	* UsurpingSanta: Took the throne of ''{{God}}'' after doing the impossible, that is... having the French team win the FIFA World Cup for the first time in history.
520	[[/folder]]
521
522	[[folder:Jacques Santini]]
523	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/santiniguignols.jpeg]]
524	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
525
526	A puppet based on former [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] player and short-lived trainer of the national French soccer team between 2002 and 2004.
527	----
528	* TheDreaded: PPD dreaded having to interview him considering how ''painfully slow'' he is and talks.
529	* RunningGag: For a time, whenever PPD would interview Fabien Barthez, Barthez would just bring Santini on set for shit and giggles, knowing that Santini's extreme slowness will annoy PPD to no end.
530	* SpeechImpediment: Speaks... very... very... very... slowly... So much so that Fabien Barthez made a game of trying to guess how to finish his phrases before he managed to finish them.
531	* TheUnblinking: He never blinks.
532	* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: His eyes are always open wide in a disturbingly empty stare.
533	[[/folder]]
534
535	[[folder:Fabien Barthez]]
536	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barthezguignols.jpeg]]
537	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
538	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
539
540	A puppet based on the goalkeeper the national French [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] team from 1991 to 2006.
541	----
542	* GallowsHumor: No matter how bad the situation is, he'll always find a funny side to it.
543	* TheHyena: Would often laugh or snicker, usually because of the misfortunes of either the national French soccer team or French League 1 championship clubs.
544	* StonersAreFunny: About half the time, he was seen heavily smoking something implied not to be mere tobacco.
545	[[/folder]]
546
547	[[folder:Philippe Lucas]]
548	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philippe_lucas_guignols.jpg]]
549	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
550	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nicolas Canteloup
551
552	A puppet based on the trainer of the French champion swimmer Laure Manaudou.
553	----
554	* TheAllegedExpert: He's even asked about his opinion on sports that ''aren't'' swimming, and other subjects such as politics, fashion, or RealityTV.
555	* BreakoutCharacter: The puppet became so popular that it was brought in sketches that had nothing to do with sports at all just to have the character comment on news.
556	* BrutalHonesty: When he thinks some sportspeople suck, he doesn't sugarcoat how he thinks they suck.
557	* CausticCritic: He's asked to give his opinion on sports and makes [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] caustic remarks about it.
558	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Et pis c'est tout." ("And that's it" / "Period")
559	* DumbJock: Gives off this vibe sometimes with his muscles, shirts and not always very bright remarks.
560	* SleevesAreForWimps: He's never seen wearing anything with sleeves, to show off his muscles.
561	[[/folder]]
562
563	[[folder:Zlatan Ibrahimović]]
564	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zlatanguignols.jpg]]
565	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
566
567	A puppet based on the Swedish professional [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] player of Yugoslavian descent Zlatan Ibrahimović, who was once one of the crown jewels of the Paris Saint-Germain club.
568	----
569	* MundaneUtility: His legendary ball-kicking was used to deliver Christmas presents in chimneys ''around the world from the North Pole'' on SantaClaus' behalf at one point.
570	* {{Smurfing}}: He christened the verb "Zlataner" and uses it to mean various things, usually as a synonym of "kicking ass".
571	* SuperStrength: He's got enough strength in his foot to kick a ball across impossible distances.
572	[[/folder]]
573
574	!!Others
575
576	[[folder:Mr. Sylvestre]]
577	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/djr68mxxsaaujxh.jpg]]
578	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
579	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yves Lecoq
580
581	A puppet based off Creator/SylvesterStallone, who had actually very little to do with the actor himself and was used to portray several characters, most prominently from the "[[OneWorldOrder World Company]]".
582	----
583	* TheAhnold: The puppet is based off Sylvester Stallone, and speaks with a gravel voice by Yves Lecoq that's meant to roughly imitate Stallone's French dub voice, Creator/AlainDorval. More specifically it's based off [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], who was a shorthand for [[{{Eagleland}} American jingoism]] in France due to the Reagan era films ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' and ''Film/RamboIII''.
584	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Not so much a single character as an embodiment of [[{{Eagleland}} American jingoism]] during the early years of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, then as one for OneWorldOrder through lies to the masses, terrorism as a political tool, unbridled capitalism, imperialism, {{opportunis\|tic Bastard}}m [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste in crisis times]] and whatnot.
585	* {{Brownface}}: The puppet was simply painted brown when it was used as Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
586	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His most recurring role (usually in business or [[PredatoryBigPharma pharmaceutics]]), along with GeneralRipper and [[SinisterMinister corrupted cardinals]].
587	* EvilLaugh: He would often ending his sentences [[TheHyena this way]].
588	* FourEyesZeroSoul: The puppet is always used to portray despicable powerful people who run humanity into the ground for profit and are often seen wearing glasses.
589	* TheManBehindTheMan:
590	** Whenever UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's puppet was interviewed in the show, his secretary (resembling Mr. Sylvestre, of course) talked for him (since he was a {{Manchild}} and TheDitz) and clearly implied to be the one who's truly in charge.
591	** To UsefulNotes/BarackObama as well, much to his annoyance.
592	* UniversalAdaptorCast: The puppet was used for several characters (aides to George W. Bush and UsefulNotes/BarackObama, the World Company executives, a UsefulNotes/{{Vatican\|City}} cardinal, Lakshmi Mittal, etc), all having ForTheEvulz in common.
593	[[/folder]]
594
595	[[folder:Osama bin Laden]]
596	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guignolsbenladen.jpg]]
597	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
598	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Herzog
599
600	A puppet based on the [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden infamous Saudi Arabian terrorist leader]] from the early [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror War on Terror]].
601	----
602	* AffablyEvil: He talks about killing people and spreading terror, but he's also quite a fun guy.
603	* BreakoutCharacter: The puppet became quite popular and thus showed up in sketches that had nothing to do with terrorism/the War on Terror whatsoever.
604	* CatchphraseInsult: Often used "ispice di counasse" ("espèce de connasse" in French, roughly "you damn bitch" with a bad mock Arabic accent). He also tended to call his interlocutors "bourricot" ("donkey").
605	* CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven: He has showed up in (somehow) {{Heaven}} from time to time after the death of his RealLife counterpart in 2011. Without his promised "72 virgins" still.
606	* FlippingTheBird: Often addressed this to Americans.
607	* ForTheEvulz: He does all sorts of evil shit, because why not?
608	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Often peppered his sentences with arab words such as "glaouis" (a slang for "testicles").
609	* TheHyena: He and Mullah Omar would often burst into laugh after a good statement.
610	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Sees nothing wrong with enforcing StayInTheKitchen and stoning women per his extremist views of UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}.
611	* IShallTauntYou: Likes to taunt the US military, US secret services and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush from the caves he's hiding in, usually via {{prank call}}s.
612	* VillainousFriendship: He is best buddies with the Afghan Mullah Mohammed Omar.
613	[[/folder]]
614
615	[[folder:Steve Jobs]]
616	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stevejobsguignols.jpg]]
617	%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
618
619	A puppet based on UsefulNotes/SteveJobs, the inventor and businessman who founded Creator/{{Apple}}.
620	----
621	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Ceci est une révolution!" ("This is a revolution!"), whenever he introduces/advertises a new product of his.
622	* CelebritiesHangOutInHeaven: After his death, he equips everyone in {{Heaven}} with Apple-made angel wings, from UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle all the way to Music/MichaelJackson.
623	* HonestJohnsDealership: Everything he advertises as "I-something" in his business presentations will be guaranteed to sell, even a mere water bucket. He does so even in ''Heaven'' after his passing.
624	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: His RealLife successor Tim Cook was ({{inexplicably\|Identical Individuals}}) depicted with the exact same puppet and voice as him, only with a bit more hair.
625	[[/folder]]
626
627	[[folder:Karl Lagerfeld]]
628	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3_65.jpg]]
629
630	A puppet based on famous German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
631	----
632	* CharacterCatchphrase: "C'est de la merde." ("It's shit")
633	* CausticCritic: Fashion is SeriousBusiness for him and he won't ever sugarcoat his opinions whenever he finds some clothes and styles vulgar or out of touch.
634	* CoolShades: Always wore sunglasses, just like the real one.
635	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / LesGuignolsDeLInfo