French TV show: Les Guignols de l’info
What is one of the better way to discover a country ? Watch its TV. And the most interesting would be to see some satirical shows. One of the most important in France is broadcast on Canal+ channel, and its call: Les Guignols de l’info (The news Pupetts).
Everyday, the puppet of the news anchor Patrick Poivre d’Arvor (from TF1 channel) follow the current events like the regular TV news, except that everything is parodied, exaggerated, and criticised. The show can be see as a left-wing outlook, but keep in mind that it’s use to attack everything and everyone, always with humor.
Most of the personalities have their puppet in the show, with its own character and habit. Some guest are fictional like my favourite character: Sylvestre, a puppet based on actor Sylvester Stalone, which represent a stereotypical offensive American in different role (American soldier or commandant, leader of a multinational company, boss in the CIA, etc…). This one can be badly received by American peoples, don’t worry, French know it’s a parody, it’s just for fun for us 
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All that to say that I will try to fansub some episode of this show for you, but it takes time :p. For the moment, I upload an old episode I subbed from May 6, 2008. Enjoy :
French News Puppets (May 6 2008).
More info about the show on the Wikipedia’s page: Les Guignols de l’info.
