Philippe Bouvard's Big Book of Big Heads: 30 Years of Happiness, Philippe Bouvard

Les Grosses Têtes celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. A legendary show, this "zoo of the great beasts of humor," according to Philippe Bouvard, has seen the most extraordinary specimens of French wit pass through its gates, from Jean Yanne to Olivier de Kersauson, including Jacques Martin, Thierry Le Luron, Jean Dutourd, Jean Amadou, and Jean-Pierre Coffe. Thirty years of verbal jousting, bravura performances, legendary retorts, irreverent sallies, aphorisms, and witty remarks: this anniversary book offers you the best of Les Grosses Têtes, thirty years of uproarious laughter, selected by the master of the game himself, Philippe Bouvard. A unique cultural program, in which German swimmers, the recipe for a bra with garter coulis, the tragic fate of spaghetti, the mirabelle plum tree from China, the soft skin of sumo wrestlers, and French history revisited and corrected are all discussed higgledy-piggledy, not to mention numerous anecdotes featuring Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Jean Gabin, and Sacha Guitry. We invite you to commemorate a true monument of French humor, between fits of laughter.