Élie Semoun
Élie Semoun (born Élie Semhoun on 16 October 1963) is a French comedian, actor, director, writer and singer.
Élie Semoun was born in France, to a Sephardic Jewish family of Moroccan-Jewish and Algerian-Jewish descent. In 1980 at the age of 17, Semoun wrote two collections of poems and two plays. Beginning in 1988, he had regular appearances on the television series Vivement lundi! on TF1, where he played a horse mounted on rollers.
His comedy career began in 1990 with his partner Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, with whom he wrote and performed daring, skits with scathing takes generally taboo subjects such as racism and poverty, often playing up contrasts between himself and his partner in terms of origin, color, and religion.
Their first show was held at Café de la Gare in 1991. The duo acquired a certain notoriety in 1992 after several appearances on their fellow comedian Arthur's show Emission Impossible, where they were noticed for their particularly corrosive sketches. They followed this up with one success after another at Le Splendid Theater, Paris's Palais des glaces, and at Casino de Paris. Élie and Dieudonné formed one of the most popular comic duos of the 1990s.
In 1997 the duo split due to artistic and financial differences. Élie resented how Dieudonné handled their relations with the media and admitted that he was unhappy that his friend had turned towards film (and that he left to appear in the United States) and antisemitism. Dieudonné managed the financial aspects of their career, and Semoun felt their money was not divided equitably.
Breaking out on his own, Semoun continued his success with Petites Annonces d'Élie (which had been at first intended to be a show with Dieudonné) alongside his friend the actor Franck Dubosc. Once again his performance was promoted by his friend on the show Les Enfants de la télé (France) Inspired by actual classified ads recorded by them in a van, the "Petites Annonces d'Élie" (Élie's Classified Ads) are seen through the character of Cyprian, a repulsive looking man searching for a "busty blond".
Semoun went back on stage with a one-man show, Élie and Semoun. He supported Bertrand Delanoë during Paris's municipal elections of 2001 and Lionel Jospin during the presidential election of 2002. In 2003, he released an album of French songs called simply "Chansons". In early 2005, he performed in a show (co-authored with Franck Dubosc and Muriel Robin entitled Élie Semoun se prend pour qui?
Élie Semoun maintained in the years following his separation with Dieudonné a complex and strained relationship with his former partner. First strained, then reconciled, they have again grown apart during the public controversy aroused by the political stances of Dieudonné. "Some have speculated on the reunion of our duo, but I must tell you that this is clearly out of the question! It's over." In 2012, he declared that "the Dieudonné he knew and the Dieudonné of today appear to him like two completely different people, and he is unable to reconcile them in his mind". ...
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2022
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2021
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I Love You Coiffure
2020
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Ducoboo 3
2020
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Kem's
2019
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Peplum: la folle histoire du mariage de Cléopâtre
2019
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Sixty
2019
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2019
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Soirée Pyjama
2019
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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Elie Semoun - À Partager
2017
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M'rire Festival : Gala D'ouverture
2017
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Festival International du Rire de Liège 2017
2017
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2017
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Le Point Virgule fait l'Olympia - 10e édition
2017
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Le meilleur des annonces d'Elie Semoun
2017
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La presque soirée présidentielle
2017
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Les duos impossibles de Jérémy Ferrari : 3ème édition
2016
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2016
2016
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Festival International du Rire de Liège 2015
2015
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Capitaine Marleau
2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 2
2015
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2015
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2011
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2011
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Bref
2011
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Carte Blanche à Anne Roumanoff
2011
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2011
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2011
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Palmashow - Very Bad Blagues
2011
as Napoléon
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2011
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2010
The Storytelling Show
2010
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2010
as Julien
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2009
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2009
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2009
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2009
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Rien dans les poches
2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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Moot-Moot
2007
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2007
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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Zapping Family
2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
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Iznogoud
2005
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Kaamelott
2005
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La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
2004
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Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2002
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2002
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If I Was Him
2002
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2002
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Caméra Café
2001
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Star Academy
2001
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Burger Quiz
2001
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2000
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2000
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2000
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1999
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1999
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Stringer
1999
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Les Grandes Bouches
1999
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1999
Les Parasites
1999
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Charité biz'ness
1998
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Let There Be Light!
1998
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1998
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Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998
Everything Must Disappear
1997
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Les Démons de Jésus
1997
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Les Bidochon
1996
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Elie & Dieudonné - En garde à vue
1996
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The Three Brothers
1995
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1995
Elie & Dieudonné - Une certaine idée de la France
1994
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Élie & Dieudonné
1992
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Que le meilleur gagne
1991
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Édouard et ses filles
1990
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1990
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1987
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