Biography

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)

- IMDb mini biography by: Julien Bigot