Laurent Baffie

Laurent Baffie born 18 April 1958 in Montreuil is a French author short film director and humorist Baffie often only called by his last name is famous for his funny hidden cameras sense of repartee biting humour as well as musical and animal culture His 2005 play TOC TOC which alludes to OCD was translated into Spanish by Julián Quintanilla in 2010 and has been a box office hit in Spain where it has been on stage for eight seasons and more than 1500 shows in Argentina where it ran for nine years and was viewed by more than 17 million people and in Mexico where more than 1000 shows were performed Son of a battered wife Laurent Baffie gave up school in Year 9 classe de 4ème to start an accountant training before moving to theatre He started earning money as an extra in the variety shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier From 1985 he wrote skits notably for JeanMarie Bigard in the show La Classe on France 3 Since then he has always participated in the writing the shows of his friend In 1990 he created and presented the show Vasy faisnous rire on Fun Radio He also took part of Philippe Bouvards show Les Grosses Têtes In 1993 he presented a show called Ze Baffie Show on Skyrock with the help of one of his friends back then Jarlot In 1999 he created Cest quoi ce bordel on Europe 2 From 9 September 2007 until 3 July 2011 he again worked as a radio presenter this time on Europe 1 The show which was broadcast every Sunday between 11 and noon reused some concepts from Cest quoi ce bordel Its title changed every week during the first years Coloscopie Demain cest mardi Cétait mieux dimanche dernier Papy fait de la résistance Vous êtes bien sur RTL Julie droguée prostituée et fière de lêtre Baffie est un sale con Taisezvous Elkabbach Ma vieille chatte perd ses poils etc before changing to its final name Cest quoi ce bordel He was always with Julie from Europe 1 In his Sunday show he used samples on which Julie recorded sentences using off the wall humour as well as the famous sentence from Édouard Balladur je vous demande de vous arrêter I ask you to stop He also uses jingle samples of Europe 1 and other radios and adverts which he uses for phone pranks In June 2011 he announced he had been laid off the radio station imputing it to economic reasons His last show was broadcast on 3 July 2011 He was replaced by Marion Ruggieri with her show called Il ny en a que pour elle Baffie came back on the radio on 25 September 2011 on Rire et Chansons where he restarted his show Cest quoi ce bordel which had already been on Europe 2 then Europe 1 On 14 January 2013 he announced he had been laid off from Rire et Chansons In 2013 he joined Philippe Bouvards team in the show Grosses Têtes He stayed in this show even after Laurent Ruquier arrived in 2014 Source Article Laurent Baffie from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA