Starting from the Bergsonian perception of humour as being a funny and pleasant staging of social facts in order to show their unsociability, we ask, in the context of this article, the following question: how the cartoonists of the French-speaking Algerian press did represent the way of acting of the Algerian during the health crisis due to the spread of the coronavirus? To answer it, we will try to identify precisely the meanings of the symbolic representations of the Algerian in the caricatural image of the French-speaking Algerian press at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the way in which the image of the Algerian is spoken in ten cartoons published in three local newspapers dealing with the subject of the coronavirus in Algeria. Our objective is to grasp the implicit meaning of iconic messages (from a semiotic approach of the image) and linguistic messages (used by cartoonists to describe what is, by pretending to believe that it is the way it should be).