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Cyclopede is absurd comedy, my bad French stops me from getting it, but it's not so bad for cultural references
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTYQlzp5Oo
This cracks me up every time, unfortunately the English subbed one is gone. There are loads of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BR4gXOe36k
Here's Desproges roasting Le Pen
But, yeah, comedy can be hard, Le Guignols is also full of word jokes of which I don't get many! No doubt your wife can help, but it takes a while. Keep watching French TV and good luck :)
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JWestland
Comedy is a nightmare to follow, the combination of weird accents, slang and not knowing the cultural references has me looking blankly at the screen most of the time as well. We recently got my mother in law's Canal plus account woking on our amazon firestick so I've decided to only watch French TV, even after a just a couple of weeks I'm noticing an improvement, it's kind of a little taste of what immersion must be like.