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[[File:guignols_ppda_5091guignols ppda 5091.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Kent Brockman News|"You're watching too much television. Good evening."]]]]

Since their beginning in 1988, when the show was known as ''Les Arènes de l'info'', it has been hosted by PPD, a puppet of famous French news anchor Patrick Poivre D'Arvor (or PPDA, as he is better known by the general public).<ref>PPDA having been fired from his real life job on the channel TF1 in 2008, the authors had also introduced for a time a new anchorman, Harry Roselmack, who works every Friday as his "apprentice"</ref>. The show has enjoyed [[Long Runner|tremendous popularity through the years that continues to this day]], and has been credited with introducing younger generations to politics and even of influencing the French public's views on certain politicians.

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Some [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]]s were never actually said by the people the puppets satirize.

** "Travailleurs, travailleuses, le grand Capital vous ment, le grand Capital vous spolie..." ("Male workers, female workers, the Great Capital lies to you, the Great Capital is despoiling you..." -- Arlette—Arlette Laguiller, from the far-left party called Workers' Struggle)

** "Salut bonhomme !" ("Hi fella!" -- Bernard—Bernard Tapie)

** "Imbécile !"; "Andouille !" ("Dumbass!"; "Idiot!" -- François—François Mitterrand, former president)

** "Abracadabrantesque !" ("Ludicrousish" -- Jacques—Jacques Chirac, former president)

** "LE MONSIEUR TE DEMANDE..." ("THE GENTLEMAN IS ASKING YOU..." -- Jacques—Jacques Chirac, whenever adressing Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, despite the latter's protests that he isn't deaf)

** "Mééééééééheuuuu ! Je veux être président !" ("Come ooooooon, I want to be president!" -- François—François Bayrou, center-right)

** "En effet !" or "Aneffet !" ("Indeed!" -- Philippe—Philippe Douste-Blazy; he rarely says something else)

** "Excusez ma tenue, je sors de la douche..." ("Pardon my dress, I just got out of the shower..." -- Dominique—Dominique Strauss-Kahn, every time he appears since the Nafissatou Diallo affair; he always appears in a leopard bathrobe since)

** "PAAAAAYYYYS DE MEEEEEEERDE !!!" ("SHITTY COUNTRYYYYYY!!!" -- Lionel—Lionel Jospin's leitmotiv since he pathetically lost in 2002)

** "Ceci est une révolution !" ("This is a revolution!" -- Steve—Steve Jobs, each time he introduced new [[Apple Macintosh|Apple products]])

** "BONSOIR IBIZAAAAAAAA !" ("GOOD EVENING IBIZAAAAAA !" -- David—David Guetta)

** "Désolé..." ("Sorry..." -- Michel—Michel Denisot)

** "Vous avez vu ma femme tellement qu'elle est belle tellement qu'elle est mannequin tellement qu'c'est ma femme !" ("You've seen my wife? How she's so beautiful how she's a model how she's my wife!" -- Nicolas—Nicolas Sarkozy)

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcqCeHiX4M Bernadette Chirac was once portayed like this] in a spoof of the SPECTRE conference from ''[[Thunderball]]''. In this sketch, she plots to annihilate the free will of the French people with the help of the government, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]]s, stupid TV hosts and medias moguls. {{spoiler|It turns out she is second to [[Bigger Bad|Ernest-Antoine Seillière]].}}

** François Hollande used to be a [[Fat Idiot]], but the creators toned down his ditziness when he entered the presidential election, giving him some [[Cowardly Lion]] traits instead. The real one once commented that, when portrayed as a Guignol, you were either a Ditz or a [[Jerkass]] -- implying—implying he wasn't too unhappy with which side he ended up.

*** In 2012, some major Hollywoodian movies such as ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' or ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' got Guignols-made "[[Prequel|prequelsprequel]]s".