François Pérusse is a Québécoiscomedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humour. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple. He’s put online on a regular basis, some new stuff on is YouTube channel named : LeFrancoisPerusse.
Biography
Pérusse was born to Charlotte and Adélard Pérusse. At 12 he made his debut in local radio, and by age 17 he was playing as a bassist in bands with his older brother Marc. "Les 2 minutes du peuple" first aired in August 1990 on CKOI-FM as part of the program "Y'é trop d'bonne heure" : his sketches and songs became instantly well known throughout Quebec. After a little over a year, a compilation of his best sketches and songs was released: L'Album du peuple – Tome 1, which has sold more than 80,000 copies. Pérusse has released 9 more "Albums du peuple" in the main series, plus 2 albums in France and a spinoff called L'Album pirate. His fourth album, which he expected to be his last and which he called L'Album du peuple final – Tome 4, sold well, prompting him to continue making albums. Les 2 minutes du peuple made its debut in France in autumn 1995 on Europe 2 radio, with Pérusse changing his accent and general language accordingly to imitate the European French way of talking. Pérusse moved into television on February 8, 1999 with Le JourNul de François Pérusse a satirical news program. There have also been animated versions of his sketches Le Spécial du peuple and La Série du peuple aired on the TVA network. He has released a DVD, Le DVD du peuple, containing highlights of La Série du peuple and Le JourNul de François Pérusse. Pérusse's work has been broadcast in Belgium since 1998 and in Switzerland since 2002. New sketches of Les 2 minutes du peuple are now on the FM network Radio-Énergie as part of the program C't'encore drôle broadcast all across Quebec. In 2006, his JourNulcharacters returned in a talkshow style segment called On s'écoute parler. He received the last 3 annual Ruban d'or from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in the humour category, which are amongst the most prestigious of the awards for radio broadcasting in Canada. A great Beatles fan, he was hired by the Cirque du Soleil to work on the showThe Beatles: LOVE for Las Vegas.
