The 38 most popular french comedy TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Caméra Café
2001
country: France
The coffee machine of a small company is the scene of discussions between employees. Private life, professional life, gossip, mockery, ... everything goes!


Scènes de ménages
2009
country: France
Scènes de ménages depicts the daily lives of several couples from different generations, illustrating with humor their arguments, tender moments and little idiosyncrasies. Each episode is made up of short sketches, in which the characters exchange scathing retorts and funny situations.


The News Puppets
1988
country: France
A parody of a newscast, the show is a caricature of the political world, the media, personalities or more generally of French society and the current world.


Plus belle la vie
2004
country: France
The daily lives of the inhabitants of "le Mistral", an imaginary neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy families cross paths with the less than rich.


Tara Duncan
2021
country: France
Tara Duncan is a simple schoolgirl who lives on Earth with her grandfather. One day she discovers that she has powers, that her grandfather has turned into a dog and that she is the heiress of one of the most powerful empires in the Otherworld: Omois! The young girl, whose destiny will change forever, sets out to master her magic. This is without counting on the evil Magister, who will try to steal his powers to conquer the world. Together with her new friends Cal, Robin, Sparrow and Fafnir Tara, will she succeed in turning her grandfather back into a human? And will she escape Magister?


Groland
1992
country: France
Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+.


Princess Sissi
1997
country: France
Princess Sissi is a French-Canadian animated series. it debuted on October 27, 1997 on France 3. The series is based on the life of the empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, nicknamed "Sissi".


Blocked
2015
country: France
Two guys interpreted by the Casseurs Flowters (Orelsan & Gringe) discuss in a sofa until something happens. Created by the team of Bref, this short program speaks of boredom whith funny moments like : "What's the name of Hitchcock movie with the birds ?"


Totally Spies!
2002
country: France
Totally Spies! depicts three girlfriends 'with an attitude' who have to cope with their daily lives at high school as well as the unpredictable pressures of international espionage. They confront the most intimidating - and demented - of villains, each with their own special agenda for demonic, global rude behavior.


Oggy and the Cockroaches
1999
country: France
Oggy, an anthropomorphic cat, would prefer to spend his days watching television and eating, but is continuously pestered by three roaches: Joey, Marky and Dee Dee. The cockroaches' slapstick mischief ranges from plundering Oggy's refrigerator to hijacking the train he just boarded. In many situations Oggy is also helped by Jack, who is more violent and short-tempered than him and is also annoyed by the cockroaches. Bob, a short-tempered bulldog, also appears in the show, and is Oggy's neighbor.


Rétro Découverte
2016
country: France
No overview available


Doc Martin
2004
country: France
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Series 6 began airing on ITV on 2 September 2013.


Kaamelott
2005
country: France
Kaamelott is a French comedy medieval fantasy television series created, directed, written, scored, and edited by Alexandre Astier, who also starred as the main character. The series, which originally ran for six seasons (referred to as 'books'), ran from January 3, 2005, to October 31, 2009, on M6. In this offbeat account of King Arthur's quest for the Grail, virtually every journey, battle or adventure is stopped dead in its tracks by the knights of the round table's most worldly traits: cowardice, greed, idiocy or misplaced chivalry. As a consequence, instead of epic adventures we are treated with the characters' pragmatic and anachronistic take on each and every event in the Grail legend, true to the purest sitcom tradition.


Tootuff
2001
country: France
No overview available


Candice Renoir
2013
country: France
Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!


Bernard
2006
country: South Korea
Bernard is a series of animated shorts centered on the fictional polar bear and main character of the same name. It is a Korean-Spanish-French co-production. Each three-minute episode focuses on the bear's curiosity and have many moments of slapstick. Bernard never speaks with the exception of unintelligible noises Bernard is accompanied in the cartoons by a few other characters: Lloyd and Eva the penguins, Zack the lizard, Goliat the chihuahua, Sam the baby, Pilot the dog, Pokey the porcupine and Santa Claus. He usually gets knocked unconscious or severely injured at the end of an episode, due to some calamity caused by his bumbling


Samantha oups !
2004
country: France
Samantha oups! is a French sketch comedy series that was broadcast on France 2 from 2004 to 2007. The series deals with the life of a blonde young woman, Samantha Lo, and her brunette friend, Chantal Matieu. As part of the comedic nature of the series, the roles are played by men, with David Strajmayster playing Samantha, and Guillaume Carcaud starring as Chantal; Carcaud also plays various minor male and female roles in the show.


La Petite Histoire de France
2015
country: France
**1810:** Renata Plancher, cousin of Napoleon, Jean Plancher, and their son Baptiste run an inn, "Chez Bonaparte," in Paris, Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Jean complains that the Emperor has shown them no regard since coming to power. **1695:** Count Philippe Honoré de Roche Saint-Pierre, cousin of Louis XIV, was dismissed from Versailles by the king. He lives with his wife Marie-Louise at the Château de La Croûtinière, 250 kilometers from Versailles. **1430:** François d'Arc is the cousin of Joan of Arc. He lives in Domrémy, Joan's birthplace, with his wife Ysabeau and Gaspard, a sheep breeder. François tries by all means to free his cousin, who is imprisoned by the Burgundians. **1:** Yorik is the cousin of Vercingetorix. He lives at the salt mine of Marsal, in Gallo-Roman Moselle, with his wife Maëlle, his son Briac, his daughter Gwénola, Burgal, Maëlle's brother, and Lena, Yorik's mother.


Grizzy & the Lemmings
2016
country: France
The forest ranger's house is the only area of human civilization in the middle of untamed wilderness in a vast natural reserve in Canada. When the ranger is away, a bear named Grizzy feels that the ranger's house is his territory, given that bears sit at the top of the food chain. After making his way inside the home, Grizzy takes advantage of all the modern conveniences there, including a comfortable sofa, air conditioning and fully equipped kitchen. He's not alone, though, because a group of small creatures called lemmings also populate the ranger's house when he is away. Because Grizzy and the lemmings are not civilized enough to live together in peace, it becomes an atmosphere of madness when the two sides try to outdo each other with tricks.


Wakfu
2008
country: France
Follow Yugo and his friends Amalia, Evangelyne, Tristepin, Ruel and Az as they try to rescue the world of Wakfu from destruction.


Hélène et les Garçons
1992
country: France
The sitcom follows Hélène Girard and her friends in their life as students.


Lazy Lucy
2004
country: France
At eight years old Lucy has her own view on life: why tire yourself out doing something, when you can find a lazier way? Lucy redoubles her energy to work out original and amusing solutions: from the room which tidies itself, to the dance for planting strawberries, she proves that she has more than one trick up her sleeve!


At Theatre Tonight
1966
country: France
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.


Walter Melon
1997
country: France
Walter Melon is a 1998 animated TV show, very loosely adapted from the Franco-Belgian comic and television series Achille Talon. The show aired in the United States on the Fox Family Channel during 1998 and 1999. Produced and funded by France 2, Saban's and Scottish Television


Salut les Musclés
1989
country: France
No overview available


Les Mystères de l'amour
2011
country: France
Direct sequel to the cult French TV series “Hélène et les Garçons”.


Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
1984
country: Canada
Heathcliff knows he is the best cat around! Never have we seen such self-confidence topped off with a heavy dose of vanity, cunning, ruthlessness, and a mischievous love of gags. He cruises and struts down the street and watch out any person, cat, or dog who gets in his way! Although he may terrorize the neighborhood, let an outsider try to push anyone around and he is a veritable tiger of defense. On the other side of town are The Catillac Cats, which typically revolve around leader Riff-Raff's get-rich-quick schemes or searches for food.


Splat & Harry
2020
country: France
No overview available


Burger Quiz
2001
country: France
A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.


HIP - High Intellectual Potential
2021
country: France
Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.


1 Woman 1 Man
2008
country: France
An intimate, hilarious, touching and almost voyeur look at the everyday realities of married life and differences between men and women.


Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
country: France
No overview available


Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
2006
country: France
Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.


Space Goofs
1997
country: France
Five peculiar monsters from a distant galaxy crash land on Earth. Quickly, realizing that if discovered by the government they will end up as laboratory experiments, they hide in the attic of an empty house. But the house is for rent! Our alien friends have a hard and hilarious time getting rid of each new tenant, as they discover that this world of "strange earthlings" is even more bizarre than the world they left behind.


Rabbids Invasion
2013
country: France
The Rabbids are back in their new tv show. The rabbids discovers new things and learn what they do. But that they don't know is that they are curious.


The Why Why Family
1996
country: France
The Why Why Family is a French cartoon television series for children, which originally aired in 1996, written by Annabelle Perrichon and François-Emmanuel Porché and produced by Saban Entertainment and CineGroupe. Later, in 1998, the show was broadcast in the United States by Fox. Character design and others are vintage and comedy elements are also included throughout the episodes.


Telecat
1983
country: Belgium
Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who always had his arm in plaster) and an ostrich named Lola. It featured a variety of sentient objects and revolved around the idea that the real-life elementary particles known as gluons were “the souls of objects”.


Gus the Itsy-Bitsy Knight
2021
country: France
Once upon a time, there was a little boy, Gus, who wanted to become a great knight. Sorry, not a great knight… The Greatest knight in the whole kingdom of Karamel. Wielding with his laser sword, mounted on his electric pony, Gus never misses an opportunity to go on an adventure to accomplish all his missions. The problem is, Gus is… ITSY BITSY! He stands three apples high, to be precise, but has a heart the size of a house! Gus will prove to one and all that a brave heart can overcome everything, and that there’s no greater cavalier than Gus, the itsy bitsy knight!
French television has moved from a broadcast-dominated tradition into a strong export position, particularly in crime and spy drama. The results tend to be shorter-run and more cinematic than Anglo-American equivalents.
TV comedy has moved from the multi-camera sitcom to the single-camera half-hour to the genre-blurring 'sadcom.' The format's real advantage is time — jokes that depend on years of accumulated character history.