{{Short description|French humorist}} {{Infobox person | name = Albert Algoud | image = Albert Algoud ganache.jpg | birth_date = March 23, 1950 | birth_place = Asnières-sur-Seine, France | occupation = {{flatlist| * Comedian * journalist * actor * writer}} | organization = Fluide Glacial (chief editor 2003-2005) Le Canard enchaîné | father = François-Marie Algoud }} '''Albert Algoud''' (born March 23, 1950) is a French humorist known for his sketches on several Canal+ programs (Nulle part ailleurs, and the Karl Zéro shows) and on the radio. He has also published books on Tintin.
== Biography == Albert Algoud is the son of writer François-Marie Algoud and the grandson of author Albert Algoud.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12099814c |title=Algoud}}</ref> According to the January 1995 issue of ''L'Histoire'', Albert Algoud was himself a member of Action Française in his youth. He then spent a few months with the Gauche prolétarienne, a movement he soon left because he disagreed with Marxist–Leninist ideology and Stalinist tendencies.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a contributor to the libertarian and surrealist magazines ''La Crécelle noire'' and ''Camouflage''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Crécelle Noire n°1 la revue des lépreux de la littérature by Jimmy Gladiator Petr Kral Stéphane Mahieu Tristan Mandragore Joan Owens Pierre Peuchmaurd Pavel Reznicek Norbert Roux Salomé Karel Sebek Patrice Uhl et Jehann van Langenhoven: (1979) {{!}} Librairie Sedon |url=https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Cr%C3%A9celle-Noire-n%C2%B01-revue-l%C3%A9preux-litt%C3%A9rature/31106273775/bd |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=www.abebooks.com |language=en}}</ref>
He worked as a French teacher, first in Haute-Savoie, in Seynod, then at Les Allobroges college in La Roche-sur-Foron, and finally in the Yvelines, at Jean Jaurès college in Poissy. He began broadcasting on Contrebande in Annecy. In 1989, he spent several months hosting a comedy radio show on RFM with Antoine de Caunes and Karl Zéro (Ba be bi bo bu). On this show, with Karl Zéro, he played several characters, including Barry White.
He was a member of the group Les Jalons.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Le grand écart d'Albert Algoud |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/le-grand-ecart-d-albert-algoud-07-11-2000-2001745680.php |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR |archive-date=2018-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222043759/http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/le-grand-ecart-d-albert-algoud-07-11-2000-2001745680.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MAGNERON |first=Philippe |title=Algoud, Albert - Bibliographie, BD, photo, biographie |url=https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-1079-BD-Algoud-Albert.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.bedetheque.com |language=fr}}</ref>
In {{ill|Nulle part ailleurs|fr}} (NPA), he was one of a group of comedians who filmed Karl Zéro's sketches, writing the former's scripts with Antoine de Caunes and Laurent Chalumeau. On the set of NPA, he played the legionnaire Pintimbert alongside Karl Zéro. Following Antoine de Caunes's departure, Algoud was given the show's finale, where he read the eulogy of the day's guest. For two seasons, he contributed to the weather, disguised as grotesque characters (the Queen Mother, Rika, Father Albert, Marshal Ganache...).
With Christophe Bertin, he helped create the news pastiche ''Zérorama'', broadcast from January 3, 1994.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1995-01-17 |title=L'humour du " Zérorama " fait grincer les dents |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1995/01/17/l-humour-du-zerorama-fait-grincer-les-dents_3834729_1819218.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref> He then appeared on Karl Zéro's satirical news program Le Vrai Journal. On France Inter radio, Algoud hosted La partie continue<ref>{{Cite web |title=France Inter – Première radio d'actualité généraliste et culturelle |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=France Inter |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-05-23 |title=Un humour d'échafaud |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1999/05/23/un-humour-d-echafaud_3553258_1819218.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref> a cultural magazine show in the 6{{Nbsp}}pm – 7{{Nbsp}}pm slot between 1999 and June 28, 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tonneau |first=François |date=2000-11-06 |title=Le grand écart d'Albert Algoud |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/le-grand-cart-d-albert-algoud-07-11-2000-2001744568.php |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref> In 2005 and 2006, he had a daily column on the RTL2 morning show, alongside Alexandre Devoise.
Albert Algoud, also a Tintinophile, has published numerous works dedicated to the world of Tintin. These include a dictionary of Captain Haddock's swear words and an unauthorized biography of Castafiore. In 2010, he published the Petit dictionnaire énervé de Tintin,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2010-11-24 |title=Albert Algoud, tintinophile énervé |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/albert-algoud-tintinophile-enerve_939361.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=L'Express |language=fr}}</ref> and in 2016 the Dictionnaire amoureux de Tintin.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Le monde de Tintin selon Albert Algoud, une comédie humaine {{!}} RCF |url=https://www.rcf.fr/articles/culture/le-monde-de-tintin-selon-albert-algoud-une-comedie-humaine |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.rcf.fr |language=fr}}</ref>
From 2003 to September 2005, he was editor-in-chief of Fluide glacial magazine.
He also writes columns for I-Télé, contributes to the "Le coincoin des variétés" column in Le Canard enchaîné, and writes for the weekly magazine ''À nous Paris'', as well as the comic strip magazine ''Cargo Zone''. He is also a scriptwriter/dialoguist on several films, including ''Les Hauts Murs''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-05-02 |title=L'enfance trahie d'Auguste Le Breton |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2008/05/02/03002-20080502ARTFIG00278-l-enfance-trahie-d-auguste-le-breton.php |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}</ref> directed by Christian Faure; Gérard Oury's ''Le Schpountz''; Laurent Heynemann's ''Un aller simple''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Un aller simple de Laurent Heynemann (2000) - Unifrance |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/15388/un-aller-simple |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=en.unifrance.org}}</ref> and Didier Bourdon's ''Bambou.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bamboo de Didier Bourdon (2008) - Unifrance |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/29957/bamboo |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=en.unifrance.org}}</ref>
From September 2007 to December 2007, he hosted the daily program ''On aura tout vu'' on Direct 8 every evening at 6 p.m., with Stéphanie Pillonca, Louise Ekland and Fréderic Martin, reviewing cultural news.
In 2008 and 2009, he was co-author with Éric Laugérias and Laurent Gerra, then in 2010–2011 and 2011–2012, with Pascal Fioretto, of Laurent Gerra's daily column, commenting on current affairs from Monday to Friday, on RTL, between 8:50 and 9{{Nbsp}}am. Algoud pastiche the voices of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Osama bin Laden.
On France Inter's ''Le Fou du roi'', he takes part on certain days in Daniel Morin's column as "le père Albert". In September 2011, he joined Daniel Morin's team in ''La Morinade'', broadcast on Le Mouv'. He regularly plays various roles. The show was discontinued by the new management of Le Mouv' in December 2013. The character of "Père Albert" reappears alongside Daniel Morin in ''À rebrousse poil'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morin |first=Daniel |date=2015-06-09 |title=A rebrousse-poil: podcast et émission en replay |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/a-rebrousse-poil |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=France Inter |language=fr}}</ref> the program the latter presents every day at 11{{Nbsp}}a.m. on France Inter, during the summer of 2015.
From 2015 to 2020, he appeared twice weekly on La Bande originale, Nagui's show on France Inter, with a humor column entitled "Albert Algoud a tout compris",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Algoud |first=Albert |date=2016-09-01 |title=Albert Algoud a tout compris: podcast et émission en replay |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/albert-algoud-a-tout-compris |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=France Inter |language=fr}}</ref> where he alternated between his recurring characters who had moved from one show to the next: Father Albert (a cantankerous priest with a Savoyard accent), Marshal Ganache (a former Indo soldier and Petainist), François-François (a glittering singer), John-Jack Lang (the other guy's brother), Jean-Dominique Besnehard (speech therapist to the stars), Jean-Roger Navarro, Jean-Philippe Manœuvre...
In 2019, he has a column, entitled "Il était une femme", on Daniel Morin's weekly program ''Vous les femmes''. In it, Albert Algoud presents a woman who has performed an exceptional or heroic deed, but whom history has forgotten.
In 2023, Albert Algoud's autobiographical comic strip ''Le Prof qui a sauvé sa vie'' (The Teacher Who Saved His Life), illustrated by Florence Cestac, was published by Dargaud, recounting his past as a teacher.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le prof qui a sauvé sa vie |url=https://www.dargaud.com/bd/le-prof-qui-sauve-sa-vie-bda5494030 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Éditions Dargaud |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ISSN 1951-4050 (Print) {{!}} DBD {{!}} The ISSN Portal |url=https://portal.issn.org/resource/issn/1951-4050 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=portal.issn.org}}</ref>
== Works ==
=== On ''The Adventures of Tintin'' ===
* ''Tintinolâtrie'', Casterman, 1987 * Le Haddock illustré, dictionnaire des insultes du capitaine Haddock, Casterman, 1991 - revised edition 2004 * ''Le Tournesol illustré'', Casterman, 1993 * ''Le Dupondt sans peine'', Canal + Éditions, 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=Albert Algoud - Le Dupondt sans peine (1997) - Amazonie BD Librairie BD à Paris |url=https://amazoniebd.com/produit/albert-algoud-le-dupondt-sans-peine/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Amazonie BD |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * L'Archipel Tintin, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2004 - new edition 2012 In collaboration with Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Dominique Cerbelaud, Benoît Peeters, Pierre Sterckx. * ''La Castafiore, biographie non autorisée'', éditions Chiflet & Cie, 2006 ({{ISBN|2-35164-006-3}}) * ''Petit dictionnaire énervé de Tintin'', <abbr>coll.</abbr> Petit dictionnaire énervé, éditions Opportun, 2010<ref name=":0" /> * ''Dictionnaire amoureux de Tintin'', Plon, 2016<ref name=":1" /> * ''Le Senhor Oliveira da Figueira et les aventures de Hergé et Tim-Tim au Portugal'', Chandeigne, 2021
=== With Antoine de Caunes ===
* ''Pas mal pour un lundi'', 1990 * ''Vous permettez que je vous appelle Raymond?'', 1990 * ''J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites'', 1992 * ''Une ambulance peut en cacher une autre'', 1992 * ''Bien entendu, je plaisante'', 1993 * ''Le Petit Gildas illustré'', 1993
=== Karl Zéro ===
* ''Lettres piégées'', Hors Collection, 1992 * ''L'Élu de mon cœur'', Hors Collection, 1992
=== Alexandre Devoise ===
* ''Le Fin Mot de l'Histoire'', City Éditions, 2005
=== Pascal Fioretto === In 2007, Albert Algoud and Pascal Fioretto drew two gentle caricatures of Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, both candidates in the 2007 French presidential election.
* Le Pacte secret, a novel about the presidency of the French Republic for over a century, 2007 * ''Élysée machine'', Chiflet & <abbr>C</abbr>i.e., 2007
=== Comics ===
* ''Où est Sarko?'' (dessins Herlé) éditions de l'opportun, 2011 * ''Le Prof qui a sauvé sa vie'' (dessins Cestac), éditions Dargaud, 2023<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-13 |title=Albert Algoud : " J'ai plus d'émotions à raconter mes années de prof que celles passées à Canal+ " |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/culture/20230413.OBS72134/albert-algoud-j-ai-plus-d-emotions-a-raconter-mes-annees-de-prof-que-celles-passees-a-canal.html |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Le Nouvel Obs |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=L'humoriste Albert Algoud raconte sa vie en bande dessinée |url=https://www.lejdd.fr/culture/lhumoriste-albert-algoud-raconte-sa-vie-en-bande-dessinee-136235 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=lejdd.fr |language=fr}}</ref>
=== Others ===
* ''Œil de verre, jambe de bois: Petite Encyclopédie des éclopés'', 1992 * ''In Bed Wiz François François'', 1992 * ''Le Retour de Tartarin'', 1993 * ''Raffarin de Matignon'' (2002) avec Christophe Bertin * ''Comment gagner sa vie sur celle des autres: Do It Your Secte'', avec Christophe Bertin et Cabu, 2002 * ''Jacno, itinéraire du dandy pop'', entretiens avec la collaboration d’Albert Algoud, <abbr>coll.</abbr> SL, Éditions du Rocher, 2006 * ''Journal intime de Nicolas S.: 1998-2008'', éditions Chiflet & Cie, Paris, mai 2008, 159 p. ({{ISBN|978-2351640517}}) – Faux journal intime de Nicolas Sarkozy, à vocation parodique, entièrement manuscrit. * ''Carnet de retraite'' (2008) éditions Chiflet & <abbr>C</abbr>i.e., octobre 2008 48 p. ({{ISBN|978-2-35164-060-9}}) * ''Bonnes manières (d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) - Quand la Baronne va au supermarché'', 2013, éditions Chiflet & Cie, 160 p. ({{ISBN|978-2-35164-203-0}}) * Madame Doubtfire (2003): a play written by Albert Algoud and directed by Daniel Roussel was released in 2003, with Michel Leeb in the lead role.
Algoud wrote chapters for ''Secrets d'Histoire'' vol. 1 and 2 by Stéphane Bern (Albin Michel).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bern |first=Stéphane |title=Secrets d'Histoire |date=2010-10-13 |publisher=Albin Michel |isbn=978-2-226-19294-3 |location=Paris |language=French}}</ref>
== Filmography ==
=== As a screenwriter ===
* 1999: ''Le Schpountz,'' Gérard Oury * 2001: ''Un aller simple,'' Laurent Heynemann * 2008: ''Les Hauts Murs,'' Christian Faure * 2009: ''Bambou,'' Didier Bourdon
== See also ==
* Fluide Glacial * Le Canard enchaîné * Abdullah (Tintin)
== References == <references />
== External links ==
* [https://www.radiofrance.fr/personnes/albert-algoud Radio France] * [https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-1079-BD-.html BD Gest] * [https://wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org/?p=345&url_prefix=https://www.imdb.com/&id=nm0019335 IMDb] * [https://viaf.org/viaf/119175550 VIAF] [https://isni.org/isni/0000000081881655 ISNI] [https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118884231 BnF] [https://www.idref.fr/026681749 IdRef] [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/n89600989 LCCN] [https://d-nb.info/gnd/1130183750 GND] [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/DA15399606?l=en CiNii] [http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX868238 Spain] [https://opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/AUTHORITY/13915045 Belgium] [https://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p073190918 Kingdom of the Netherlands] [https://nukat.edu.pl/aut/n%202013007980 NUKAT] [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89600989 WorldCat]
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