Les Rois du gag
| Les Rois du gag | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Claude Zidi |
| Screenplay by |
Michel Fabre Didier Kaminka Claude Zidi |
| Starring |
Michel Serrault Gérard Jugnot Thierry Lhermitte |
| Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
Release dates | 1985 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Rois du gag is a 1985 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi.
Plot
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". Having come to meet Georges Khorseri, a mate of Paul and François, he assists for the first part at their duet. Seduced by their style, he hires them. For both of them, it is the beginning of the fame, but Gaëtan has a hard time to convince his wife, the shrewish Jacqueline, that he loves his troublemaker job, because she dreams of his as the role of the prestigious director Robert Wellson (a groteque pastiche between Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick), who will soon shoot his latest masterpiece near Paris.
Cast
- Michel Serrault ... Gaëtan / Robert Wellson
- Gérard Jugnot ... Paul Martin
- Thierry Lhermitte ... François Leroux
- Macha Méril ... Jacqueline
- Mathilda May ... Alexandra
- Didier Kaminka ... René
- Coluche ... Georges Khorseri
- Maurice Baquet ... Robert
- Pierre Doris ... Jean
- Daniel Laloux ... the theater director
- Georges Beller ... the TV director
- Pétronille Moss ... the hairdresser
- Carole Jacquinot ... Catherine Martin
- Ticky Holgado ... the man who files a claim for injuries
- Pierre Tchernia ... the presenter of the Césars