Karl Zero

Biography

Its first publication is a cartoon entitled the adventures of Edmond in the fanzine Jalons , with the beginning of the year 1980. From there, it will join the draftings of Métal Howling , Charlie-Hebdo , Zoulou and the Echo of savannas as draftsman then scenario writer. In parallel, it enters in 1981 to Actuel as specialized journalist the interviews of stars and joined the team incipient from Radio Nova, at the side of that which will become his wife, Daisy d' Errata. It joined then the team of Globe and Him where its talents of interviewing are worth to him to be noticed. It animates during several months a delirious radio program on RFM with Antoine de Caunes and Albert Algoud, Babebibobu.

In 1986, it is engaged by Europe 1 to animate Free Géant at the side of Doug Headline (the son of Jean-Patrick Manchette). They will be transfered at the end of four months: Karl will join TF1 while Doug is devoted to the cinema. On TF1, the emission Pirate associating Karl and Jean-Yves Lafesse will have only one number in September 1987. There still, the direction judges the humor of “moved” Karl and thanks it.

Channel + (Alain de Greef) then proposes to him to nowhere integrate the team incipient from elsewhere into the side of Antoine de Caunes. For its sketches, often related to the topicality, it uses video fakings to put in scene the politicians (the Flame).

In 1993, it successfully proposes in Nowhere elsewhere a parodic Tv news, the Zérorama , “the current events speaking about moral rearmament”. It uses there a presentation and a tone inspired of the cinema news under the Régime of Vichy of Philippe Pétain to satirize the government of Edouard Balladur and the media which support it. Always in 1993, it carries out a film shifted the Trunk in which it plays in company of Albert Algoud, Jose Garcia, Lova Moor…

From September 1996 at June 2006, it presents, Sunday with 12:30 on Canal +, the True Newspaper , a tv news which wants “to say very high” what the other French tv news “hides”. Karl Zero is not Journaliste and does not have a Carte of press. It mixes traditional journalistic reports, generally realized by the Agence WRAPPED, and sketches realized with faking, in which often his wife takes part, Daisy d' Errata. During its discussions with politicians, he seeks to impose the Tutoiement to them. Its audience in ten seasons was never contradicted: 10% of market share, 3 points of audience, are 1,5 million televiewers each Sunday. It became the referent of all the policies who want “to speak to the young people”.

In 1996, at the beginning of the True newspaper , Karl Zero wished to work with Pierre Carles, which had been censured one year and half earlier by Canal+ for its film Pas considering on TV which called into question the bona fide of the tele journalists. Pierre Carles having intended Karl Zero to declare with such as he did not like that one holds a different speech with the antenna and out-antenna, and that the principle of the true newspaper was to reveal the businesses, by telling the things as they are, he thus proposed an investigation into the way to him in which Canal+ began there to censure a subject. For Karl Zero, it is not possible with respect to its superiors. Pierre Carles proposes then another subject to him, on the way in which Jacques Chirac chooses the journalists charged to interview it. The subject is again refused, by Alain de Greef this time. In 1998, in the film Not considering step taken Pierre Carles, thus calls into question the freedom of tone of Karl Zero to want all to say and all to show in the true newspaper , while trying to show, by the juxtaposition of things called by Karl Zero on television and of phone interviews that Pierre Carles has with him, that also is subjected to him to a certain censure on behalf of its leaders.

From September 2001 at June 2002, it launches as producer the newspaper of the good news the JBN starting from a concept of Eric Guillaumond, become as from March 2003 the against-newspaper , and diffused on Canal + 7 p.m. 20 to 7 p.m. 50. It also produces 60 Days 60 Nights , which tells the cross lives of Joey Starr and Francis Lalanne.

Catholic having supported the launching of chain KTO TV, it does not hide either its Anti-américanisme nor its anti-liberalism, and often presents reports favorable to the altermondialists in its emissions. More generally, its emissions are more favorable to the left than with the right-hand side, even if Karl Zero is said readily apolitical. Its emissions are produced by its production company, the Company of the spectacle, which belongs today to 50% with the group Endemol, specialized in the Télé reality.

In June 2003, with the agreement of the encrypted chain, it takes again the charges of the serial killer Patrice Alegre (by reading in the true newspaper the mail that this one had addressed to him), and with two former prostitutes, which affirm that different notable from Toulouse, with which the former mayor and president of the SCUMS Dominique Baudis, would be mingled with a sadomasochistic network , which would have covered with the rapes, of tortures and the murders. Patrice Alegre and the ex-prostitutes reconsidered these charges then. Justice since cleared the personalities blamed. It also appears that Karl Zero poured 15 000 euros with the one of the ex-prostitutes as advance payment on a book published since at Ramsay. These failures with the journalistic Déontologie were largely commented on, and Dominique Baudis underlined her role, like that of Channel +, in Vis-a-vis calumny , her book published in connection with this business. All the legal proceedings against the organizer showed Non-lieu X.

In 2004, Karl Zero presented also the play It is what this play? , always on Channel +.

Karl Zero is finally the author of a first film, the trunk (1992), and of two albums published at Naïve, Songs for convertibles there otros tipos of veiculos (2000), repurchased by Fox to make the BO of of them Improbable (ninth episode of the last series of X-Files), and Hifi Calypso , recorded in 2003 with The Wailers.

The May 31st 2006 left in rooms In the skin Jacques Chirac , film describes like a “unauthorized autobiography” of the president of the Republic, César of Best documentary.

In deferment since the business Alegre, the emission the True Newspaper is finally definitively stopped in June 2006. Channel + known as to have undergone into 2005 of many pressures of the political world in order to reconsider its decision to stop as of this year the True Newspaper . Libération believed in particular to be able to quote Laurent Fabius, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Karl Zero confirmed in the emission Freeze frame to have received the support of the two first. The end of the Vrai newspaper was accompanied by the dismissal of Karl Zero and the 34 paid its company of production.
Several of his/her closer collaborators, of which some for several years, have engaged in its opposition to the legal proceedings in front of the courts of the conciliation boards and civilians.

Since September 2006, Karl Zero put on line a tele blog and Web, the Web 2 Zeros. It is interested then in September 11th and the doubts that there are goshawks of the official version. This subject is then tackled with several guests (in particular with Christine Boutin).

It also animates on AOL the emission the Club of the Net , a weekly political appointment produced by Power Podcast, and since mid-March 2007, a daily JT concerning the topicality of the presidential campaign on the Net.

In 2007, it carries out with Michel Royer a new film: Ségo and Sarko is in a boat , which it initially sells in video with the request (Vod) on March 5th and in DVD, supplement of magazine VSD on March 21st before asking for the visa of exploitation for an exit into the room on April 4th. This type of commercial exploitation, rather unusual, enables him to be freed from the rules of CNC by ensuring a multimedia diffusion within a very short time.

Karl Zero supports Jose Bove at the time of the presidential election of 2007. In the official clip of campaign the latter, it is Karl which interviews it.

Businesses

A rumor launched by the event of Thursday (according to Karl Zero) would like that it followed his Bruno brother at the end of the Années 1970 and at the beginning of the Années 1980 while sympathizing with GUD (student trade union of Extrême right-hand side). Karl Zero denied completely affirming that the newspaper had been condemned besides for slandering.

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