38 years after their debut, The unknown always find a way to reinvent themselves. On November 14, at 9:10 p.m. on TF1, they will be in the foreground in a fiction directed by Nicolas Hourès and which will resume their cult sketches. There will be 19 in all, including Télémagouilles, The hunters, It’s you that I love you, The sects, Auteuil Neuilly Passy, Rap-tout, The police station, Turn households and Isabelle has blue eyes. Legendary sequences, which will still be brought by a well-defined scenario.
Indeed, in this fiction, Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus will wake up one morning with the unpleasant surprise of discovering that no one recognizes them and that the group of comedians never existed. A quest will then begin for the three accomplices who will try to understand this absurd situation. Throughout history, they will discover that their sketches and cult songs do exist but that they have been interpreted by other actors, comedians and singers.
Thus, to carry out this project, many celebrities such as: Gil Alma, Caroline Anglade, Eric Antoine, Arthur, Artus, Benabar, François Berléand, Redouane Bougheraba, Michel Boujenah, Frédéric Bouraly, Wahid Bouzidi, Claudio Capéo, Carlito, Cartman , Patrick Chesnais, Camille Combal, Gérémy Crédeville, François-Xavier Demaison, Anne Depétrini, Vincent Desagnat, Djimo, Issa Doumbia, Arnaud Ducret, Antoyine Dulery, Pascal Elbé, Elodie Fontan, Elodie Frégé, Charlotte Gabris, Maxime Gasteuil, Youssef Hajdi, Virginie Hocq, Jarry, Bérengère Krief, Jean-Luc Lemoine, Philippe Lacheau, Chantal Ladesou, Jonathan Lambert, Baptiste Lecaplain, Mathieu Madénian, Hélène Mannarino, McFly, Isabelle Nanty, Helena Noguerra, Pierre Palmade, Manu Payet, Laurie Peret, Florent Peyre , M Pokora, Jhon Rachid, Adil Rami, Alex Ramirès, Medi Sadoun, Elie Semoun, Soprano, JoeyStarr, Ahmed Sylla, Thaïs Vauquières, Tom Villa, Christophe Willem… answered present… unheard of!
But the news of Les Inconnus does not stop at this fiction and these covers of sketches, because another evening around the trio will be broadcast soon on the front page, probably in early 2023. A new documentary which will bring together numerous testimonies as well as archives never revealed so far. “They each interviewed us individually for four hours“, had notably underlined Pascal Légitimus in the pages of the Parisian talking about this project.
A civic duty
They were also asked about the likelihood or not of seeing them again one day on the boards, where it all began. “Now is the time to do it” estimated Didier Bourdon. “Me, I would like to do a show again just so that people don’t ask me that anymore. It’s almost a civic duty“, had joked Pascal Légitimus. “At best, we will be told that we will have done as well. It’s a headache“, had temporized on his side Bernard Campan.
Moreover, while their famous saga The three brothers seems definitely over, their return to the cinema was announced last spring. A feature film which should be directed by the king of comics Riad Sattouf, but no date has yet been announced.