Élie Semoun

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Age

Movies

131

Born: October 16, 1963
From: Paris, France

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.

Works

131 films

Serial (Bad) Weddings

20146.7

Asterix at the Olympic Games

20085.2

Neuilly Yo Mama!

20096.0

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion

20186.8

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

20146.8

The Gardener

20256.1

Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !

20185.4

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

20043.6

Porn in the Hood

20125.0

Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia

2026

Surviving Sid

20086.2

Ducobu 4 President

20224.1

Départ immédiat

2012

Old School

20004.5

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états

20225.0

Love Me

20005.9

Aux abois

20056.8

Ducobu Goes Green!

20244.2

Park Benches

20095.4

The Three Brothers

19957.0

Stuck Together

20215.9

M'rire Festival : Gala D'ouverture

2017

Second Chance

20115.7

Everything Must Disappear

19974.8

My Darling Family

20266.0

Elie Semoun à l'Olympia

20026.4

Second life

20005.4

Two Much for the Job

20225.0

Drôles de familles

2022

Carte Blanche à Anne Roumanoff

20113.5

Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show

20155.7

Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy

20216.0

Les petites annonces d'Elie - L'intégrale

20026.2

Le Placard

20155.4

Emilie Jolie

20116.9

Iznogoud

20054.0

Cyprien

20093.9

Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public

20036.2

Les Grandes Bouches

19996.1

The Grand Restaurant IV

20228.0

Made in Jamel

20105.2

People : Jet Set 2

20043.4

Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation

20124.7

The Car Keys

20035.2

Camping : Histoire d'un succès

20216.0

Ducoboo

20114.9

Charité biz'ness

19985.8

Le Clone

19982.9

Haters

20213.7

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans

20225.8

Les Zacros de la Télé

20046.0

Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !

20157.3

Let There Be Light!

19986.5

A Village Almost Perfect!

20145.3

Élie & Dieudonné

19935.2

Looking for Teddy

20185.4

They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!

20225.1

My Old Man

2023

I Love You Coiffure

20203.8

Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours

20238.2

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

19987.6

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

2018

Once Upon a Time in the Oued

20055.5

La presque soirée présidentielle

2017

Elie Semoun et ses monstres

20236.0

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

20148.0

Les Démons de Jésus

19976.6

Les duos impossibles de Jérémy Ferrari : 3ème édition

20166.9

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

19956.0

The Storytelling Show

20105.3

Jamel Show

19996.0

Ducoboo 3

20205.3

Elie Semoun - Merki...

20096.0

Tous Inconnus

20223.4

20 sketches, une vie

2018

Fake News

20214.1

Papa veut pas que je t'épouse

19927.0

Un divorce de chien

20105.9

Dieudonné - Code de la Route

2005

Les Parasites

19996.2

Les Bidochon

19963.6

On aurait dû aller en Grèce

20244.9

Stringer

19993.6

Daddy Cool

20084.7

Ducobu et le fantôme de Saint-Potache

2026

Les seigneurs du château

20216.0

Marrakech du rire

20115.6

Rien dans les poches

20084.3

La famille, ça me fait bien rire !

20186.0

Franck Dubosc - Les Pour Toi Public 2

20065.9

Les Petites Annonces d'Elie - L'Essentiel

20085.4

La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre

20055.3

Soirée Pyjama

2019

Les Petites Annonces d'Elie - La Suite...

20034.5

Classico

20224.9

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

20197.0

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015

20157.0

Riviera

20064.3

Le Grand Show des humoristes

2020

Meudon rire de tout - 2ème édition

2023

Sixty

20196.0

Les Galas juste pour rire : Un monde sans femme

20068.0

The Crazy Evening of Palmashow 2

20157.3

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2016

20167.0

La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia

2004

Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi, Maman ?

2020

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

19997.3

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017

20177.7

If I Was Him

20025.0

Elie Semoun - À partager

20178.7

Zapping Family

20057.7

Le meilleur des annonces d'Elie Semoun

2017

Elie annonce Semoun

20005.5

Casablanca Driver

20045.8

Elie & Dieudonné - Une certaine idée de la France

19946.0

Le Grand Show des humoristes - Spécial couples

2021

Festival International du Rire de Liège 2015

2015

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2018

20186.7

Peplum: la folle histoire du mariage de Cléopâtre

20197.0

Les Petites Annonces la suite de la suite

20085.7

Elie Semoun : Tranches de vies

20125.2

Elie & Dieudonné - En garde à vue

19965.7

Anne Roumanoff & co s'amusent !

2022

Bonsoir Monsieur Devos

2023

Festival International du Rire de Liège 2017

2017

Elie Semoun se prend pour qui ?

20065.2

Elie annonce Semoun, la suite de la suite

20075.3

Elie annonce Semoun, la suite...

20035.4

Babylone, police de proximité

2026

Le Point Virgule fait l'Olympia - 10e édition

2017

Elie Semoun - Elie et Semoun au Palais des Glaces

19998.0