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occasionally, as during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The sketches of 2 Minutes of People - called 'capsules' by their author - are recognisable by the acceleration that PĂ©russe applies to his voice to interpret the different characters, which gives a lively and comic effect without time outs. The absurd humour of the capsules is mainly based on a huge amount of puns, nonsense, and trick or treating. The vast majority of episodes are almost independent of each other, but have recurrent characters. They feature scenes from everyday life, songs or parodies of television shows such as
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During the first Quebec capsules, there were not many series parodying Quebec programmes in particular, but many parodies of television genres. Since returning to Quebec in 2002, the news bulletins (newspaper) have been parodied in Les
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The 'capsules' of 2 minutes of people form a succession of independent sketches that deal with various subjects (everyday life, news, animals, telephone canvassers or advertising) but which can also form a mini-series on a specific theme (for example historical figures such as
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These approximately 2 minute sketches were initially broadcast in Quebec on the show Yé trop d'bonneheure on CKOI-FM before airing on CHOE-FM, CPIC-FM or Énergie. From 1996 to 2012 they were also regularly broadcast on French-speaking radio stations: in
Belgium on Joker FM, in France in particular on
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The series was originally from Quebec, but in the transmission to Europe, capsules containing several references to Quebec were modified, for example the gags around Quebec personalities (Michael
Louvain, Pier BĂ©land, Fernand Gignac and the Montreal Canadians). They were modified with stars of the
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Both versions also use the same gags when it comes to a pun that works just as well in Quebec French as it does in French from France: for example, on a situation of everyday life, even with the presidents of the United States like Bill
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Malcolm, Inspector Bocolon (a parody of Inspector Columbo), Krikett the super cop (capsule "Action Movie" and "Police Investigations"), "the guy who shops by telephone", Jean-Charles, or even duos: Roger and Caroline, Fux Molder and Dana Scully (X
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Over the years, the series attained cult status in Quebec and Europe. It has won several awards (seven FĂ©lix, six
Olivier, a Juno and several Golden Ribbons), has been adapted into a TV series ("La serie du peuple") and the albums made from it have sold over 2 million copies.
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Les 2 minutes du peuple – Humain 2000 – François Pérusse (Europe) » , sur YouTube, chaîne officielle de François Pérusse, 31 janvier 2018 (mise en ligne).
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