Background
Pérusse was born to Charlotte and Adélard Pérusse.
Pérusse was born to Charlotte and Adélard Pérusse.
His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple (The Peoples" 2 Minutes). "Les 2 minutes du peuple" first aired in August 1990 on CKOI-FM as part of the program "Y"é trop d"bonne heure" (lieutenant"s Too Early): his sketches and songs became instantly well known throughout Quebec. After a little over a year, a compilation of his best sketches and songs was released: L"Album du peuple – Tome 1 (The Album of the People – Volume 1), which has sold more than 80,000 copies.
Pérusse has released 8 more "Albums du peuple" in the main series, plus 2 albums in France and a spinoff called L"Album pirate (The Pirated Album).
His fourth album, which he expected to be his last and which he called L"Album du peuple final – Tome 4 (The Final Album of the People – Volume 4), sold well, prompting him to continue making albums. Les 2 minutes du peuple made its debut in France in autumn 1995 on Europe 2 radio, with Pérusse changing his accent accordingly.
Pérusse moved into television on February 8, 1999 with Le JourNul de François Pérusse (The LameNews by François Pérusse) a satirical news program There have also been animated versions of his sketches Le Spécial du peuple (The Special of the People) and Louisiana Série du peuple (The Series of the People) aired on the Tennessee Valley Authority network.
He has released a Digital Video Disc, Le Digital Video Disc du peuple (The Digital Video Disc of the People), containing highlights of Louisiana Série du peuple and Le JourNul de François Pérusse.
Pérusse"s work has been broadcast in Belgium since 1998 and in Switzerland since 2002. New sketches of Les 2 minutes du peuple are now on the FM network Radio-Énergie as part of the program C"t"encore drôle (lieutenant"s still funny) broadcast all across Quebec. In 2006, his JourNul characters returned in a talkshow style segment called On s"écoute parler (Listening to ourselves talking).
A great Beatles fan, he was hired by the Cirque du Soleil to work on the show The Beatles: LOVE for Las Vegas.