Les Grosses Têtes

Les Grosses Têtes (French pronunciation: [le ɡʁos tɛt];"The Big Heads" or "The Big Brains" in English) is a daily comedy radio programme on the French language RTL radio network.

In 2000, station managers thought that they could do without the services of their aging top host (animateur de référence) and replaced him with Christophe Dechavanne.

A regular TV version aired on TF1 from 1992 to 1997 on Saturday evenings, with the same principles as the radio show.

[2][3] On 27 March 1996, Philippe Bouvard, Vincent Perrot, and the president of TF1 Patrick Le Lay were fined for having provoked racial hatred by telling a riddle comparing Muslim women to robbers.

[4] The Association of LGBT Journalists investigated the show in 2020, noting homophobic and sexist humour as well as jokes about Romanians and Roma being thieves, and Asian people being responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Radio studio
Former presenter Philippe Bouvard