The Seven Times Everyone Has Talked About "We Are Not Lying Down"

• After fourteen seasons, the last issue of On n'est pas couché is broadcast this Saturday on France 2.
• Since 2006, the show has invited hundreds of personalities from the world of politics and culture.
• Largely thanks to its emblematic columnists, the program marked the Saturday evenings of public service.

You can now go to bed before 2 a.m. on Saturday evening. This Saturday, Laurent Ruquier presents the last of On n'est pas couché , launched in September 2006. After fourteen seasons, one of the most emblematic programs of PAF takes its bow and will leave a mark on television memories. 20 Minutes has decided to plunge back into the archives of the small screen and return to the tensions, the clashes, but also the funniest moments of the France 2 talk show.

Florence Foresti and her characters

From the first issue, Laurent Ruquier brought Florence Foresti to interpret the personality he could not have had on set. This September 16, 2006, the humorist then plays Ségolène Royal. In the weeks that follow, Isabelle Adjani, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Cécilia Sarkozy, Britney Spears and Céline Dion follow each other (for false) in the blue armchair of the show. Since then, all these sketches have become cult.

The clash between Michaël Youn and Zemmour and Naulleau

Already in 2007, clashes broke out at the Moulin Rouge, where the show was filmed. One of the first concerns Eric Zemmour, Eric Naulleau and Michaël Youn. While the actress Mathilda May comes to promote her film, the humorist defends herself against the criticisms of the two columnists. Rather visionary for the time, he denounced "a starification of criticism" then left the stage, refusing to broadcast an extract from his show.

Jonathan Lambert's sketch opposite Laury Thilleman

No luck for Laury Thilleman. While she knew how to avoid falling during the evening of her election to Miss France, the young woman did not manage to get past a week later on the set of Laurent Ruquier. On December 11, 2010, she faced Jonathan Lambert, or rather her character Damien Baizé. Drooling, he stands ready to pounce on the beauty queen. To protect herself, she first tosses him a glass of water and ends up falling from her chair. An extract which still appears today in blooper on TV.

Vanessa Burggraf's laughter in front of Philippe Poutou… Then her campaign clip

February 2017, the last major media straight line before the presidential election. Some candidates take the floor in On n'est pas couché , like Philippe Poutou. While his speaking time is running out, he places himself in spite of himself at the center of a laughter from Vanessa Burggraf wishing to question him about the redundancies. The sequence is buzzing, so much so that the NPA candidate will take it back for his campaign clip. "Admittedly, his name is Poutou, but he did kiss us well," said Laurent Ruquier.

When Christine Angot left the set (but it was cut during editing)

"What do we do, then, if no one is listening?" asks Sandrine Rousseau. "We manage," says Christine Angot ... Terrible. #ONPC pic.twitter.com/2GGGUkQAHz

On September 30, 2017, Sandrine Rousseau is invited in On n'est pas couché to talk about her book Parler , in which she accuses Denis Baupin of sexual harassment. In front of her, Christine Angot, who herself was the victim of rape in her youth. Tension quickly escalates when the politician explains that she has set up a listening cell against harassment. Something the columnist cannot imagine. "Train to welcome the floor?" But what do I hear? Stop saying things like that, ”she says. Christine Angot will eventually leave her chair to return a few moments later. France 2 had subsequently been put in default by the CSA.

Christine Angot's comments on slavery

Christine Angot in ONPC on slavery:
"The idea was on the contrary that it was in great shape […] to be able to sell them" pic.twitter.com/rSS9cKesvX

Christine Angot creates another controversy less than two years later with a comparison between the Shoah and the slavery of blacks. "The aim with the Jews during the war was to exterminate them, that is to say to kill them, and that introduced a fundamental difference. So that we want to confuse with, for example, slavery, and the slavery of blacks sent to the United States or elsewhere, and where it was exactly the opposite. That is to say, the idea was that they were in great shape (…), in good health so that they could be sold and so that they could be marketed, ”she launched against Franz- Olivier Giesbert. More than 900 reports were then sent to the CSA following this sequence.

The last controversy

"There are thousands of people who do not feel safe in the face of a cop and I am one of them" @Camelia_Jordana #ONPC pic.twitter.com/RrA91Y6Km8

Even in its last year (we can even say its last weeks), We are not lying has been talked about. In late May, singer Camélia Jordana accused the police of "massacring" men and women for their skin color. "There are thousands of people who do not feel safe in the face of a cop, and I am one of them," she explained during a debate facing Philippe Besson. The Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, reacted the next day, evoking "false and shameful remarks. "

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