Karl Zéro is the pseudonym of Marc Tellenne (born August 6, 1961 in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie), who is a French writer, actor and filmmaker. Zero is also a political talk show host/Vrai Journal personality who recorded albums of 1940s and 1950s pop standards.
Wiki/Biography
At the end of the 1970s, Éric, Bruno and Marc founded the satirical comedy troupe Groupe d’Intervention culturelle Jalons. Anne-Laure, his wife, and Bruno’s wife, Virginie (Frigide Barjot) then became members of Le Jalon.
Zéro’s first publication was a comic strip entitled Les Aventures d’Edmond in the magazine Jalons in the early 1980s. Subsequently, he began working for the publications Métal Hurlant, Charlie Hebdo, Zoulou and L’Écho des savanes. , first as an artist and then as a storyteller. He then joined The Globe and To post, where his skills as an interviewer stood out. For a few months, he hosted a humorous program on RFM with Antoine de Caunes and Albert Algoud entitled Babebibou.
Physical appearance
- Eye colour: Noir
- Hair color: Noir
Family and ethnicity
Parents, siblings
Karl Zéro is the youngest son of Gui Tellenne, civil servant and poet, and Annick Tellenne, author and talk-show host.
Karl Zero’s mother, Annick Tellenne
He has three brothers: Éric, a writer under the name of Raoul Rabut, Bruno (alias Basile de Koch), and Olivier, a business manager.
Eric Tellenne, brother of Karl Zero
wife and children
In 1975, Zéro met his future wife and mother of their three children Anne-Laure Chaptel (current stage name: Daisy d’Errata) at the high school they both attended.
Karl Zero with his daughter and wife
Career
As a writer
Zero’s first publication was a comic strip titled The Adventures of Edmond in Jalons magazine in the early 1980s.
He then began working for the publications Métal Hurlant, Charlie Hebdo, Zoulou and L’Écho des savanes, first as an artist and then as a storyteller.
As a journalist
In 1981, he began working for the trendy magazine Actuel as a journalist specializing in star interviews.
He also joined the newly formed team of Radio Nova, alongside his future wife, Daisy d’Errata.
He then joined Globe and Lui, where his interviewing skills caught the eye.
For a few months, he hosted a humorous program on RFM with Antoine de Caunes and Albert Algoud entitled Babebibou.
In 1986, Karl Zéro was hired by Europe 1 to host their program Géant Gratuit with Doug Headline (son of Jean-Patrick Manchette). He was fired after four months.
Zéro then returns to TF1 while Doug devotes himself to cinema. On TF1, the program Pirates de Zéro with Jean-Yves Lafesse only lasted one episode in September 1987. Again, his sense of humor was deemed “inappropriate” and he was let go.
As director
Alain de Greef of Canal+ (French television channel) then offered him the production of Nowhere else (Nowhere Else) with his former collaborator Antoine de Caunes. He used video gags to bring political figures into his sketches, which often focused on current events.
Karl Zero in Nowhere Else
In 1993, he successfully proposed to add a parody of a television report entitled “Zerorama”, “relating to events of moral rearmament”, in which he used a mode of presentation and a tone inspired by the news of the Vichy regime under Philippe Pétain to satirize Édouard Balladur. government and the media that support it.
Also in 1993, he directed an offbeat film entitled Le Trunk, in which he appeared alongside Albert Algoud, José Garcia and Lova Moor.
The trunk poster
He also produced 60 Days 60 Nights, which chronicled the intersecting lives of Joeystarr and Francis Lalanne.
As an animator
In 2004, Zéro also hosted C’est quoi ce jeu? on Canal+.
From September 1996 to June 2006, he was the host of the newspaper Le Vrai on Canal +, a television news program intended to “say out loud” what other French television news programs “hide”.
Karl Zero in The True Journal
In 2006-07, he hosted on AOL Le Club du Net, a weekly magazine of interviews concerning the French presidential campaign produced by Power Podcast, and in mid-March 2007, JT2Zero, an online daily newspaper on demand on the campaign produced by Havas Media.
AOL club poster
Since September 2007, Karl Zéro has been hosting a program on 13th Street entitled “Les Faits Karl Zéro”, a program on unsolved crimes produced by Trois Œil, which began in the spring of 2010 in the form of a 90-minute spin-off in prime time. .
Karl Zero Facts Poster
Since September 2008, Karl Zéro has been broadcast daily in prime time on BFM TV. Originally an interview show called Karl Zéro on BFM TV and inspired by CNN’s Larry King Live, following the 2008 release of his film Starko! season 1 (based on Nicolas Sarkozy’s first year as President of France), becomes on September 7, 2009, Sarko Info, a television news parody in which he conducts an interview following a topical commentary by Michel Guidoni playing the role of Sarkozy while he performed in the film.
Awards/honors
Honeys-Honeys
Cheries-Chéris Grand Prize [Nomination] (2013) for me, Luka Magnotta (2013)
Caesar, France [Winner] (2007)
Best documentary film for In the skin of Jacques Chirac (2006)
Facts/Anecdotes
- Karl Zéro is not a journalist and does not have a press card. In the program Le Vrai Journal, he mixes classic reports, generally filmed by the CAPA agency, with sketches using video gags, in which his wife Daisy d’Errata frequently plays a role.
- When he spoke to politicians, he tried to get them to accept the informal way of speaking. Over 10 seasons of Le Vrai Journal, its audience has remained stable at a 10% market share, or 1.5 million viewers per week. He became the benchmark for politicians who wanted to reach young people.
- Also from September 2001 to June 2002, at the suggestion of Eric Guillaumond, he co-directed Le Journal des Bonnes Nouvelles with Michel Malaussena, also on Canal +. In March 2003, it was renamed Le contre-journal.
- Catholic, Karl Zero, however, does not hide his compassion for anti-globalization positions. Its programs are produced by its own production company, La Société du spectacle, currently 50% owned by Endemol, which specializes in reality TV.
- Using the interpretation of the network without quoting them, he announced on June 3, 2003 that Patrice Alègre (by a letter he received from him) and two former prostitutes had accused certain Toulouse personalities of belonging to a sadomasochistic band which had committed sexual assault, torture and murder. One of the defendants was later determined to be innocent. Additionally, it was revealed that Zero gave one of the prostitutes an advance of €15,000. In June 2006, he was terminated from his contract with Le Vrai Journal due to a possible breach of journalistic ethics, mentions of Zéro and Canal + in the publicity of the accusations, and the resulting political pressure. Three years after the start of the investigation, in March 2007, Judge Nathalie Turquey banned Karl Zéro from appearing in court, subject to subsequent appeals.
- Karl Zero’s blog, video, and forum site, Web 2 Zero, has hosted many videos of his fans, the “zeronauts,” and interviews, including with 9/11 truth advocates, an article which interested him.
- He has a look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l’info (1988).
- He is the brother of Basil of Koch.
Basile de Koch and Karl Zéro at the inauguration of the new Castel, in Paris, on December 2, 2010
