A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.
Fernand Raynaud
Micheline Dax
Jean Poiret
Geneviève Kervine
Fred Pasquali
Michel Seldow
Robert Piquet
Henri Virlogeux
Jean Droze
Max Montavon
Gélou
Françoise Danell
Max Elloy
Lucien Guervil
Jean Balthasar
Serge Aubyr
Bernard Gropegne
Raymonde Reynard
Fred Pasquali