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In Open Bar, we're at "Chez Lolo," and the boss is Laurent Baffie. Customers to serve, guests to welcome, and regulars to endure, including François Rollin, Pascal Sellem, Stella, Raphaël Mezrahi, Frédéric Martin, and Delphine Baril, all of whom will find their place between debates, music, rants, philosophical questions, and jokes galore. "Chez Lolo" is Open Bar and Laurent Baffie has no limits!

A lost thirty-something shares his struggles, from failed relationships to boring jobs and pointless nights out. Stuck in his routine at first, he slowly evolves, searching for meaning in his life. In short, he's just trying to live.

Franck Petit, an unscrupulous and vulgar producer, has been in charge of "Culture pour tous", a very popular game show, for years. But for some time now, the ratings have been dropping significantly. Paulette is responsible for this, a contestant who has been winning for eighteen weeks and who no longer appeals to viewers, whether they are housewives, teenagers or even young dynamic executives. A solution is needed to solve the problem: eliminate her. To achieve this, Frank Petit decides to use all means, even the most vile, hoping to impose, instead, the young and sultry Cindy.

A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all six suffer from OCD. But the plane bringing the doctor is unexpectedly delayed, which forces them to spend an endless wait until the doctor shows up. Will they be able to keep their manias, impulses, convulsions, obsessions and rituals at bay during the wait?

Hello, my name is Philippe Maurice. I am a tobacconist, and for the past 24 hours I have had no filter. Not in my shop, no, in my head. For some strange reason, I say everything I think to everyone, and in very colorful language. Many people would love to be able to let loose and say all the horrible things that cross their minds, except for me, for whom life has become hell.

Jacqueline and Richard, a couple in their eighties, return to the hotel where they spent their first night of love sixty-five years ago. In that same room, they rediscover memories of the past as they retrace their shared love life. Little by little, we understand the true purpose of this pilgrimage. Faced with the disease that relentlessly gains ground, they have decided not to leave each other and to leave together, with dignity.

Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?

A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.

Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...