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''Samedi de rire'' was a
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that aired from 1985 to 1989. Cast members of the series included Yvon Deschamps and Normand Brathwaite. The québécois analogue to ''
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'', the title is itself a clever play on words: it literally means "Saturday of laughs", but is phonetically pronounced similar to ''ça me dit de rire'', or "I feel like laughing".


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List of Quebec comedians This is a list of Québécois people, Quebecers who have performed as comedians on stage, on television, or on the radio. This list also includes Acadians, Acadian humorists and French Canadians, Franco-Canadian humorists who have mostly worked in ...
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* Culture of Quebec Television shows filmed in Quebec Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming 1985 Canadian television series debuts 1989 Canadian television series endings 1980s Canadian sketch comedy television series {{Canada-comedy-tv-prog-stub