Rire & Chansons 3 Ans de Rire

Comedy radio in France rarely gets this single-minded. Rire & Chansons 3 Ans de Rire is wall-to-wall laughs: sketch troupes, stand-up sets, and the kind of punchlines that only land in French. Think Les Inconnus, Coluche, Pierre Desproges, then jump forward to Blanche Gardin or Fary. It's a strange lineage and the station knows it. The format is loose. Bits run long. Some mornings the pacing sags while a four-minute sketch finds its feet, and then a Coluche routine from 1978 lands hard enough to justify the wait. That's the trade-off with comedy radio: you can't skip to the good part. Catch Ri…