A most apt description. You have a way with words, sir.
We don't subscribe to Canal Plus, and while I know OF Les Guignols, I'm afraid that, with the exception of the occasional clips and a few segments taped by a friend for us a long time ago, we're a bit out of that cultural loop.
When is it?
Les Guignols are at 8pm (or just a copule minutes before). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes