“I prefer to take a young girl”

For more than 30 years, Elie Semoun has been making his audience laugh. In his Classifieds, on stage or at
movie theater. At the beginning, he worked hand in hand with Dieudonné. Their duo enjoyed enormous success before the separation. For several years, he has overseen the cinematographic saga Ducobu. On the set of Thierry Ardissonhe plays the game of the concept interview…

Elie Semoun: Dieudonné and Classifieds

After a stint in the series Looking forward to Monday!in 1988, Elie Semoun met Dieudonné. The two comedians then form a devastating tandem, heirs of Les Inconnus and precursors of Eric & Ramzy.
Once the 'divorce' was complete, Elie Semoun continued a solo career.

He gets closer to Franck Dubosc who appears in many sketches of the famous Elie's Classifieds. The format becomes a cult snapshot with its magnificent but terribly human losers. At the same time, the comedian is making a career on the big screen. He plays with Didier Bourdon In Everything must disappear.

The one-man orchestra of the saga Ducobu at the cinema

Obviously, Elie Semoun specializes in comedies. He embodies a little puppet strike in the classic The Demons of Jesus. Then a cop siphoned from the jar In Parasites at the dawn of the year 2000. Nine years later, he brought to the screen
Cypriangeek with an unattractive physique but a heart of gold, straight out of his Classifieds.

2011 marks a turning point in Elie Semoun's cinema career. He plays Latouche, a demanding master and a bit of a sadist, in the adaptation of The student Ducobu.
The actor plays this character in no less than five films, three of which he directed. The latest opus of Ducobu
will be released in cinemas in 2024.

Elie Semoun goes crazy at Ardisson

Elie Semoun is rather a good customer in a TV interview. The proof? A remarkable passage in Thierry Ardisson, in Tout le monde en parole, in 2005.
The comedian indulges in the concept interview 'Yes but…'. He must answer offbeat questions by exaggerating his answer as much as possible. “I'm a star among gays…”, says Ardisson.

Elie Semoun, surprised: “Ah, I'm a star among gays? It's true ? Do they like it?” The actor then resumes the course of the questionnaire in the form of a game. “But… To choose, I would prefer to take a young girl!”
Hilarity from the host dressed all in black. The audience also laughs heartily. It almost feels like a Classified Ad !