{"id":9651,"date":"2011-08-25T07:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2014-06-16T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:22:48","slug":"meet-ze-craziest-french-prankster-on-ze-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/meet-ze-craziest-french-prankster-on-ze-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Craziest French Prankster On the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecrans.fr\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L450xH450\/arton6388-8af19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have seen or heard of the hilariously crazy <strong>French<\/strong>\u00a0<em><strong>ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>called<em> &#8220;<\/em><strong>R\u00c9MI GAILLARD<\/strong><em>&#8220;<\/em>&#8230; If not, then my friends,\u00a0<strong><em>il est grand temps <\/em><\/strong>(it&#8217;s high time) for you to discover him!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How does one get to introduce a character like that<strong>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maybe since the last\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/un-debut-surprise-mondial-2010\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Coupe du Monde<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(World Cup) was such a fiasco for the French (among other teams), let us begin with his stunning\u00a0<strong><em>footballistique\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>skills!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You will see him in action in the video below, and wonder how\u00a0come the French coach of the time,\u00a0<strong>Raymond Domenech<\/strong>,\u00a0never bothered to ask him to join the ranks of <em><strong>les<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><em>Bleus\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>squad in the South African\u00a0<em><strong>Mondial<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FOOT 2008 (REMI GAILLARD) \u26bd\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DdAOZg12tOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At this point, ask anyone you want, it is completely\u00a0safe to\u00a0say that <strong>R\u00e9mi Gaillard<\/strong> is without any doubt the most\u00a0famous and funniest\u00a0prankster in France today<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You may wonder, how\u00a0was he able to\u00a0achieve this\u00a0<strong><em>exploit<\/em><\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, how did it he pull it off?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unlike so many other\u00a0<strong><em>figures marquantes\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>who came to national and even international\u00a0prominence thanks to their behind-the-scenes &#8220;connections&#8221; with the world of <em><strong>le<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><em>show business<\/em><\/strong>, R\u00e9mi was able to do it all by himself, and only by himself: It&#8217;s a well known fact that he&#8217;s a 100% self-made man, and doesn&#8217;t owe the &#8220;star makers&#8221;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tf1.fr\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TF1<\/span><\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m6.fr\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">M6<\/span><\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0or anyone else\u00a0anything whatsoever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While his motto is ostensibly\u00a0simple, it\u00a0hints at a certain sarcastic undertone,\u00a0<strong><em>en filigrane\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(implicitely, that is), mostly aimed towards the mainstream media:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;C&#8217;est en faisant n&#8217;importe quoi qu&#8217;on devient n&#8217;importe qui&#8221;<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>translated in English\u00a0by him as: &#8220;<em><strong>It&#8217;s by doing whatever that you become whoever<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His many other hidden talents include a remarkable flair for\u00a0<strong><em>d\u00e9jouer\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(eluding) the security measures surrounding major events&#8212;especially sports events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Asked about that several times, <strong>R\u00e9mi<\/strong> explained that instead of devising complex elaborate infiltration plans, it&#8217;s often\u00a0enough to act\u00a0<strong><em>tr\u00e8s naturellement<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and just&#8230; &#8220;walk in&#8221;,\u00a0<strong><em>comme si de rien n&#8217;\u00e9tait\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(like there was nothing wrong with that)<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this video, you can see him crashing the final match of the <strong>2002 <em>Coupe de France<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>d\u00e9guis\u00e9\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(disguised) as one of the football players who won the championship of that year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He even managed to shake hands with then President\u00a0<strong>Jacques Chirac<\/strong>, who apparently told him:<em>&#8220;<strong>Vous avez tr\u00e8s bien jou\u00e9!<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(&#8220;You played very well!&#8221;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REMI GAILLARD PRANKS FINAL CUP\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TaecFvNiqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also\u00a0<em><strong>tr\u00e8s amustante<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>or &#8220;<em><strong>\u00e9norme<\/strong>&#8220;,\u00a0<\/em>is this one time when he crashed the\u00a0<em><strong>Ligue Mondiale de Volley-ball<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>which is pretty much like the &#8220;World Cup of Volley-ball&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guess who was able to appear &#8220;<strong>live<\/strong>&#8221; on the\u00a0<strong>Eurosport<\/strong>\u00a0channel, standing next to the French players and singing\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/yelle-fric-ttc\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e0 tue-t\u00eate<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(at the top of his lungs) the French national hymn,\u00a0<em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-marseillaise-and-la-reintegration-de-lhistoire\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">la Marseillaise<\/span><\/a><\/strong>&#8221; !<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REMI GAILLARD PRANKS VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nj7mBO9G5qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally, whoever said that one needed to boast a\u00a0<strong><em>musculature\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(muscle structure) of, say,\u00a0a Governor of California, in order to take part in the highly competitive tournament of\u00a0<strong>Mister Universe<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I actually don&#8217;t know, but ask \u00a0he&#8217;ll definitely tell you how<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MISTER UNIVERS (REMI GAILLARD) ?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXsY2r1_9C0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/arton6388-8af19.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have seen or heard of the hilariously crazy ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne called &#8220;R\u00c9MI GAILLARD&#8221;&#8230; If not, then my friends, il est grand temps (it&#8217;s high time) for you to discover him!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":23617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[3400,65876,8293,65878,2149,8262,11435,8294,65877,13381,65879,65875,65880,65881,9557,9841,580],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary","tag-cest-en-faisant-nimporte-quoi-quon-devient-nimporte-qui","tag-coupe-de-france-2002","tag-coupe-du-monde","tag-eurosport","tag-france","tag-jacques-chirac","tag-la-marseillaise","tag-les-bleus","tag-ligue-mondial-de-volley-ball","tag-m6","tag-mister-universe","tag-nqtv","tag-prank","tag-prankster","tag-raymond-domenech","tag-remi-gaillard","tag-tf1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/20826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}