Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director.

He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and Space Sheriff Gavan (known in France as X-Or).

His early TV appearances included Chorus (1975), the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, and then his breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+.

[6] In 1988, De Caunes started making an English-language version of his French music programme Rapido, for Janet Street-Porter's youth and entertainment[7] programming strand DEF II, with new episodes of Rapido usually being broadcast as part of DEF II's Wednesday night schedule[8][9][10] on BBC2.

[11][12] He then went on to create the long-running magazine programme Eurotrash for Channel 4, with this humorous post-pub entertainment show[7] co-presented by Jean Paul Gaultier for the few series and featuring regular spots for European stars like Lolo Ferrari.