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I'm currently working on the Remi Gaillard meme, but the videos are all in French and have no subtitles. Anybody know French, or at least understand it?

I can speak some French, but look for Tomberry or Captain Blubber. They actually understand it.

Being native French, let me know what you are trying to browse through, if I can be of any help.

It's actually a couple videos: This
and This I'm not getting my hopes up, though… this is starting to really drain me.

http://translate.google.com/#en|fr|

Are you kidding me? I can translate better than that thing.

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Lolwut?
Wrong place.

I'll try to offer the most acurate transcript of both of those interviews the best I can :

Concerning REMI GAILLARD INTERVIEW MARC OLIVIER FOGIEL – FRANCE, it is an extract of Remi Gaillard's interview with Marc Olivier Fogiel from the late "T'empêche tout le monde de dormir" (You are preventing everyone from sleeping) TV show, seemingly celebrating the 20th year of what we call in France "trottoir", which is related to a comedy genre consisting of filming someone making pranks to people on the streets. It is stated that Remi Gaillard is a fan from one of the people invited on that show : Jean-Yves Lafesse who is also a well-known French street prankster.
Now, the interview itself.
- He is first asked if he is some kind of Lafesse's heir in that comedy genre. He answered that he is honored that people would think of it that way, but his master inspiration comes from Buster Keaton. He stated that, contrary to Lafesse, he is more into situational humor on camera. He also says that he proceed with what he has got, a simple camcorder, and he tried to achieve the best on the visual and sounds with it.
- He is then asked about his situation. He answered that he is on the RMI, meaning that he is unemployed and only live from aids from the State. He also said that he is selling DVDs from his videos but illegally, because he has copyright issues with the music tracks he is using in them. He also said he is trying to purchase some of these rights.
- He is then asked if there is a chance to see him on TV, with some TV shows owners trying to hire him. He retorted that it's a very difficult process but it may happen some day. He is then presented by a sentence he said in which he basically implyed that "you have to suck dicks to get hired on TV". He responded that, if he managed to be hired, people can't say of him that he sucked dicks to do so.
- Next question : He is asked if he has had some trouble with the police. he answered that he indeed got arrested several times. He says police got him into custody 1 or 2 times, that he was slapped 2 or 3 times but that, in the overall, everything was more or less just fine.
They finished by recalling about his website and his famous slogan "C'est en faisant n'importe quoi que l'on devient n'importe qui" (You become everyone by doing everything)

(needed to do 2 posts because of length restrictions)

Now, the other Interview : INTERVIEW REMI GAILLARD FRENCH TV – 2007. It's an interview for Streetsreporter.net.
The first 2 minutes of the video, he is messing with people.
Then, he starts by saying that everything began in 1999. He and his friends were watching a hidden camera prank show on TV and he said to himself "Damn, everybody can appear on TV !". He then launched a bet with his friends that he would appear on TV in 2 days. He says that, at that time, his friend retorted that he was a dickhead and that he would never manage to do anything like that. Among his friends, he has a childhood friend named Steve who said "OK, I'm going with you each Monday, looking for unusual situations to film in Montpellier's streets". The first video to ever comes up was of Remi Gaillard taking a shower in a carwash.
He then says that the main goal of every further video was to simply have fun and to do something unusual, quoting a phrase from famous French singer Jacques Brel.
He then says that a reccuring question is about his most daring video. He changes subject by talking about "Sandra", his love, who he considers to be his most daring achievement.
He then basically says (with some over tone) that Micheal Youn, another French humorist, is complete bullshit. That part is bound to some controversies surrounding plagiarism. Micheal Youn would have stolen Remi Gaillard's ideas and work and reused it for his "Morning Live" TV show in 2001. Remi Gaillard, because at that time nobody on TV would invite him, decided to invite himself in one of the "Morning Live" episode, mistakenly leaving one of his tapes there. He says that one of his joke, pretending to fall asleep on a car's horn, was copied by that show 2 or 3 days later.
He then talk about another controversy with a French TV newscaster, Christophe Dechavanne. He doesn't get into details but just compare Dechavanne production company's name, "coyote production", to the definition of a "coyote" in a dictionary as a pun.
After that, he talks about his website, which webmaster is his cousin. He says that he was pretty unknown to the French mainstream media before around June of the year of the interview (2007). He discussed with his cousin that, even if the website was pretty popular, they needed some kind of buzz. That's why he had the idea to take back an old video from him parodying the Olympic Games. That video became the buzz starter.
He then talk about his website statistics. On june of that year (2007), he had got between 5 and 10 thousands visits a day. Then, at the time of the interview, it was around 75 000 visits a day, and around 500 000 visits a day on his Dailymotion account.
He then finishes with his slogan "C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui" and adds that it is kinda difficult staying "unknown" but he wants to say that, even if he started appearing on TV, he doesn't really "sell out" the spirit behind his videos and that he always thinks about his friends first.
His lasts words related to the interview are "I don't want to work, I simply want to have fun".

Here, I hope it helps.

@zhu baijie GTFO!

To add a little more on Remi Gaillard, he also tricked TF1 French tv channel in 2002 by being interviewed as a member of the Lorient football club during the French final football cup in which Lorient won.
It was one of his first majorly infamous appearance on French TV.
He also managed in having a handshake with the French president at that time and beind mistaken as a real Lorient player for a couple of hours after the end of the match, as described in the video.

Remi Gaillard = world's greatest living prankster…

I have never heard of this guy before. However, after reading the transcript of those interviews, I respect him as the world's greatest prankster. And the coolest part is that he's French.

Everything in French can be translated into one nifty English phrase; "I surrender".

(I'm not a racist, that's what's so insane about it.)

@pumpkin GTFO the thread.

If you cant speak America get out of my computer.