Les Grosses Têtes

Radio studio.

Philippe Bouvard.

Les Grosses Têtes (French pronunciation: [le ɡʁos tɛt]; ("The Big Heads" or "The Big Brains" in English) is a daily French radio program on the RTL French radio network, created by Jean Farran and Roger Krecher on 1 April 1977. The current host is Laurent Ruquier.

Presently broadcast from 16:30 to 18:00 in France (16:00 - 18:00 in Belgium), this show has several regular segments. The first quarter of the show is hard-hitting news and the next quarter deals with cultural issues. Then, for the next 30 minutes the host takes phone calls from listeners. Finally, guests are interviewed and joked about (these jokes are called gauloises on the show). Part of the format is when guests are asked questions sent in by the listeners, the most famous being Mme Leprieur.

A TV version was broadcast on TF1 from 1992 to 1997. On 27 March 1996, Philippe Bouvard, Vincent Perrot and the president of TF1 Patrick Le Lay were fined for having provoked racial hatred by telling a riddle comparing Muslim women to robbers.

In 2000, station managers thought that they could do without the services of their aging best host (animateur de référence) and replaced him with Christophe Dechavanne. The rapid loss of listeners showed that the program's success was due as much to the audience's attachment to the hosts as to its formula, which led to the return of Philippe Bouvard as host and producer of the show the following season. Since September 2014, the show has been hosted by Laurent Ruquier.

Notable Past Members

Current Members of the Panel

Jacques Balutin (since 1977)
Jacques Mailhot (1983, since 1997)
Bernard Mabille (1985 / 1991-1992, since 2001)
Chantal Ladesou (since 2010)
Jean-Jacques Peroni (since 1998)
Laurent Baffie (1992-1993 / 1998-1999, since 2013)
Isabelle Alonso (1996-2000, since 2014)
Pierre Bénichou (1999-2000, since 2014)
Michèle Bernier (1984, since 2014)
Jean-Pierre Coffe (1986-2010, since 2014)
Christophe Dechavanne (2000, since 2015)
Arielle Dombasle (since January 2016)^[1]
Michel Drucker (since 2014)
Danièle Évenou (since 2014)
Fabrice (2001-2002, since 2014)
Sophie Garel (1982, since 2014)

Marie Laforêt (1990, since 2014)
Isabelle Mergault (1988-2000, since 2014)
Claude Sarraute (1984-1995, since 2014)
Roger Zabel (80') (since 2014)
Thierry Ardisson (since 2014)
Guy Carlier (since 2014)
Caroline Diament (since 2014)
Fabrice Eboué (since 2014)
Florian Gazan (since 2014)
Philippe Geluck (since 2014)
Franz-Olivier Giesbert (since 2014)
Marcela Iacub (since 2014)
Amanda Sthers (since 2014)
Titoff (since 2014)
Christophe Beaugrand (since 2014)

Steevy Boulay (since 2014)
Christine Bravo (since 2014)
François-Henri Désérable (since 2014)
Yann Moix (since 2014)
Cristiana Reali (since 2014)
Paul Wermus (since 2014)
Baptiste Lecaplain (since 2014)
Arnaud Ducret (since 2014)
Karine Lemarchand (since 2014)
Bérengère Krief (since 2014)
Jean-Luc Moreau (since 2014)
Christine Ockrent (since 2015)
Mustapha El Atrassi (since 2015)
Norbert Tarayre (since 2015)
Éric Thomas (since 2015)
Gérard Louvin (since 2015)

References

↑ Martin, Thomas (January 22, 2016). "Arielle Dombasle rejoint Les Grosses Têtes !". RTL. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

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