From 1967 to 1970, he worked as: life insurance salesman, opinion pool investigator, "lonely hearts" columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager for a styrofoam beam company.

In 1982, he created La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède, a series of shorts for TV, where he played an omniscient professor.

", proved that Beethoven was not deaf but stupid, and explained why the improbable encounter between the Venus de Milo and Saint Exupéry's 'Petit Prince' was a fiasco.

His family publicly announced his death with the sentence (which he had prepared): "Pierre Desproges est mort d'un cancer, étonnant, non ?"

[2] The quote comes initially from an "indictment" that Desproges pronounced as "Prosecutor of the French Republic" against far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen on 28 September 1982 at Tribunal des flagrants délires on France Inter radio.

To the second question, he answers "it's difficult", in the sense that he, Pierre Desproges, does not want to laugh with anyone, especially the guest of that day, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Desproges reformulates his ideas the following year, in November 1983, in his book Vivons heureux en attendant la mort (Let us live happy while we wait to die): "It's better to laugh at Auschwitz with a Jew than to play Scrabble with Klaus Barbie".

Bernard Pivot invites Pierre Desproges to Apostrophes, a French TV literary talk show on 30 December 1983, to promote his book.