But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two of his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theatre where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".

For both of them, it is the beginning of the fame, but Gaëtan has a hard time to convince his wife, the shrewish Jacqueline, that he loves his troublemaker job, because she dreams of his as the role of the prestigious director Robert Wellson (a grotesque pastiche between Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick), who will soon shoot his latest masterpiece near Paris.

[2] The director Robert Wellson is a parody of Orson Welles,[2][3] with close resemblances with Jean-Luc Godard and Frederico Fellini.

At the beginning, the scenario was written by Les Charlots and Michel Serrault but because of a problem between the group and the director, the film was re-written for Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte.

The role of Georges, the hysterical comic, was portrayed by Coluche who made one of his last film appearances before his tragical death on motorcycle.