Kings of the gag

the kings of the gag is a French film carried out by Claude Zidi, left in 1985.

Synopsis

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friendly, joint tenants and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of comic of television the most known, Gaêtan, which has just laid off its two gagmen too old and rather original, is found in the small theater where Paul and François occur. Allured by their style, it engages them. For the two friends, it is the beginning of the celebrity… But on its side, Gaëtan has evil to convince his wife, the acariâtre Jacqueline, which he adores his trade of troublemaker, because she dreams it in first role of the prestigious realizer Robert Wellson (who is in fact a grotesque pastiche between Orson Wells and Stanley Kubrik), which soon will turn its last chief of work close to Paris…

Data sheet

Title: kings of the gag
Realization: Claude Zidi
Scenario: Michel Fabre, Didier Kaminka and Claude Zidi
Music: Vladimir Cosma
Photography: Jean-Jacques Tarbès
Assembly: Nicole Salt maker
Country of origin: France
Kind: Comedy
Lasted: 98 minutes
Coming out date: March 12th 1985 (France)

Distribution

Gerard Jugnot: Paul Martin
Thierry Lhermitte: François Leroux
Michel Serrault: Gaëtan/Robert Wellson
Chewed Méril: Jacqueline
Mathilda May: Alexandra
Didier Kaminka: Rene
Coluche: Georges
Maurice Bucket: Robert
Pierre Dory: Jean
Daniel Laloux: The director of the theater
Georges Beller: The realizer TV
Carole Jacquinot: Catherine Martin
Pierre Tchernia: the presenter of Césars
Claude Brasseur: itself in Césars (not credited)
Philippe Noiret: itself in Césars (not credited)
Pierre Richard: itself in Césars (not credited)

Around film

On the film set of Robert Wellson (Michel Serrault), Jacqueline (Chewed Méril), the wife of Gaëtan (Michel Serrault), recommends to the make-up girl not to apply too basic of dye to the face of her husband, asserting that his character " leaves the sewers, not the Cage to insane the ".

the emission and the character of Gaëtan is freely inspired by the emissions and the humor of the time incarnated by Stepnane Collaro and its team then at the top of their glory in the middle of the Eighties.

Michel Serrault really gained its gallons of famous actor while interpreting, ten years earlier, initially on scene then in the cinema, the blazing character of Albin Mougeotte, alias Zaza Napoli, in the Cage with insane the.

External bond

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