Small world

The Sunday Times (UK) roundup of an eventful week in the French presidential campaign notes that the comedian (Gérald Dahan) who extracted several phone gaffes from Ségolène Royal by claiming to be the prime minister of Québec is the same comedian who phoned Zinedine Zidane, claiming to be Jacques Chirac, and got him to agree that the French team should place their hands on their hearts during the playing of the French national anthem in Dublin before their World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland.