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Olivier Marie Emmanuel, baron de Benoist de Gentissart, nicknamed Olivier de Benoist is a French comedian and actor, born on June the 14th, 1974, in Reims. Family

On September the 16th, 1778, Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche, Empress of The Holy Roman Germanic Empire, gave the title of baron to Charles Eugène de Benoist, an ancestor of his for services rendered. Olivier de Benoist has 6 brothers. His spouse, Caroline Menand, and him have three children (two boys and a girl).

Career

After having studied law, he changed courses and turned to show business.

Trained in the Pygmalion studio, he began his career by playing in Benoît Poelvoorde’s show “Modèle Déposé”. This first success encouraged him to write his first play “Né sous X” in 2003, then a parody of the reality shows “Loft Sorry” in 2004.

As from 2005, he tackled the writing of his one-man show and played “Haut Débit”, “Très haut debit”, and then “Très très haut débit” in which he mixed skits and magic tricks.

As from September 2010, via the “On n’demande qu’à en rire” entertainment TV program on the channel France 2, he rose to fame. He was the first candidate of the first program and became one of its the stars, having the higher number of appearances among all the candidates, after Jérémy Ferrari.

On May the 31st, 2011 he participated in the “commis d’office” trial in the “On a tout révisé” TV program.

His first TV film, Carmen, was broadcasted on France 3 on September 24th, 2011. He also appeared in an advertising spot organized by the Departmental Tourism Committee of the Loire.

During the entire summer of 2011, he participated in the Laurent Cabrol radio program “L’air du temps” on Europe 1 with a humorous chronicle.

Style His famous « Bonsoir, bonsoir. L’autre jour… » (« Good evening, good evening. The other day…”) and his way of holding his belt with his thumb while leaving a hand in his pocket, are usual gimmicks he uses in his appearances.

His writing style became recognizable right from the start of his first appearances since he developed (whatever the subject imposed or chosen) a sexual difference, he declared himself.

Jean Benguigui called him “a maker of images” because of the sexual allusions, surrealistic and absurd scenes which emerge from his script, which come out of nowhere.

Actually, Olivier de Benoist doesn’t do stand-up comedies, he plays few characters but he performs his sketch simply by creating situations that only the listener can detect.

His chosen field remains relations between men and women, even though he addresses a great variety of topics such as politics, reality TV and magic. He also parodied some of his humorist colleagues who participated in the TV show.