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 MoroccanJewish and AlgerianJewish 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 Mbala Mbala 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 Arthurs 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 Pariss 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 dÉlie 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 dÉlie Élies 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 oneman show Élie and Semoun He supported Bertrand Delanoë during Pariss 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 coauthored 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 Its 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 CCBYSA 30