Élie Semoun

Also Known As: Élie Sémoun, Élie Semhoun, Elie Semhoun, Elie Semoun

Biography: 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". ... Source: Article "Élie Semoun" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Birthday: October 16, 1963

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

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Known For:

Camping : histoire d'un succès
Bonsoir Monsieur Devos
Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Ducobu 4 President
My Darling Family
Les Démons de Jésus
La presque soirée présidentielle
Les Parasites
Départ immédiat
Elie Semoun et ses monstres
Everything Must Disappear
The Three Brothers
Cyprien
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Park Benches
Ducoboo
Le grand show des humoristes - Spécial couples
Les petites annonces d'Elie - L'intégrale
Second Chance
The Storytelling Show
Les Grandes Bouches
Les seigneurs du château
The Car Keys
Le Clone
Elie Semoun - Elie et Semoun au Palais des Glaces
Elie Semoun - Merki...
Elie Semoun se prend pour qui ?
Elie Semoun - Elie annonce Semoun, la suite...
Ducobu 5
Carte Blanche à Anne Roumanoff
Elie Semoun à l'Olympia
Riviera
Second life
Aux abois
Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation
Drôles de familles
La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
Stringer
Elie & Dieudonné - Une certaine idée de la France
Élie & Dieudonné
Elie & Dieudonné - En garde à vue
They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Elie Semoun : Tranches de vies
Classico
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
Les Zacros de la Télé
Elie Semoun - Elie annonce Semoun
Emilie Jolie
Soirée Pyjama
If I Was Him
Un divorce de chien
Two Much for the Job
Ice Age: Surviving Sid
Let There Be Light!
Les Bidochon
Zapping Family
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans
Le meilleur des annonces d'Elie Semoun
Porn in the Hood
Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états
La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Elie annonce Semoun, la suite de la suite
Sixty
Neuilly Yo Mama!
A Village Almost Perfect!
Old School
Tous Inconnus
Tous Inconnus
La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 2
Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public
Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public 2
Les petites annonces d'Elie - L'essentiel
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
The Grand Restaurant IV
Anne Roumanoff & co s'amusent !
Le Placard
Meudon rire de tout - 2ème édition
People - Jet set 2
On aurait dû aller en Grèce
Babylone, police de proximité
Jamel Show
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2016
Marrakech du rire
Casablanca Driver
Les duos impossibles de Jérémy Ferrari : 3ème édition
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017
Once Upon a Time in the Oued
M'rire Festival : Gala D'ouverture
Festival International du Rire de Liège 2017
Le Point Virgule fait l'Olympia - 10e édition
Festival International du Rire de Liège 2015
Elie Semoun - À Partager
20 sketches, une vie
Les petites annonces la suite de la suite
Les petites annonces d'Elie - La suite...
La famille, ça me fait bien rire !
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Looking for Teddy
Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Charité biz'ness
Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Daddy Cool
Ducoboo 3
Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
Peplum: la folle histoire du mariage de Cléopâtre
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2018
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi, Maman ?
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
Le grand show des humoristes
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Rien dans les poches
I Love You Coiffure
Les Galas Juste Pour Rire:  Un monde sans femme
My Old Man
Stuck Together
Fake News
Muppets TV
Haters
Iznogoud
Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy
Made in Jamel
The Gardener
Ducobu 6