Laurent Ruquier
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Laurent Ruquier made his debut in the famous French "café-théâtre" Le
Caveau de la république in his own stand-up. Then he become the
assistant of Jean Amadou and Maryse for a
radio program. After that, he was hired by Claude Villers to make a
column on the "Vrai-Faux Journal" for France Inter. Then he had his own
radio program "Rien à Cirer" which ran a long time on the same station
before a change of title many times (Dans tous les sens, Changement de
Direction,...). After an adaptation of his show "Rien à Cirer" to the
TV which stopped after few weeks and
Les niouzes (1995) which ended
after only 5 days, Ruquier decided to leave television for ever. But
few years later he made his return as co-host with
Marc-Olivier Fogiel on the show "Un
an de +" on Canal+ and was announced as co-host for the new show of
Fogiel on France 3 "ONPP" but few days before the premiere he finally
agreed to have his own show -"On a tout essayé"_ produced by
Thierry Ardisson. He left France Inter
to come back to Europe 1 with his famous show "On va s'gêner". He wrote
few plays like "La presse est unanime" for the actress
'Isabelle
Mergault', "Grosse Chaleur",
"Si c'était à refaire" and "Landru" starring
Régis Laspalès as Désiré Landru in
december 2005. He also produced
Marie Laforêt's comeback to stage in 2005
(after she left her singing tours since 1972)
