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Anything Goes (2011)

Anything Goes poster
Original title
Vendredi, tout est permis
Genre
musical play, variety show, late-night talk show, game show, comedy television series
Country
France
Length
14 seasons, 286 episodes
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a French variety show that mixes musical performances, games, comedy sketches and talk show segments. Host Arthur guides viewers through a series of celebrity appearances and humorous interactions.

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What happens

Jacques Essebag (Arabic: جاك الصباغ; born 10 March 1966), better known by his stage name Arthur, is a French television presenter, producer, and comedian. After dropping from law studies, he began his career as a host on local radio in the Paris region in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he found a certain notoriety by presenting programs on Fun Radio, Europe 1 and Europe 2 (Arthur et les pirates, PlanetArthur and Radio Arthur). Starting in 1991, he became the host of television programs, first on France 2 and TF1 (Les Enfants de la télé, La Fureur). Meanwhile, he started a theatrical career with two one-man shows, Arthur en vrai (2005) and I Show (2009) and portraying Peter Brochan in Le Dîner de Cons (2007), alongside Dany Boon. Since the mid-1990s, he has also been an entrepreneur in the audiovisual field. He was, until 2006, vice president of the French subsidiary of production company Endemol. Since 2008, he has been the owner of Ouï FM. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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