Thierry Le Luron

French DVD cover for a Thierry Le Luron compilation.

Thierry Le Luron (2 April 1952 – 13 November 1986) was a French impersonator and humorist.

Debut

At the age of 17 years, Thierry Le Luron, student at the Lycée Emmanuel Mounier in Chatenay-Malabry , creates a band with friends ( The dead rats ) and a few scenes in the Hauts-de-Seine and around a . It debuted in several Parisian cabarets, including Jacob's Ladder, in 1969 . The public first met him on 4 January 1970 at the Game of chance , a sequence of the television broadcast TV Sunday he won six consecutive times, singing tunes rather classic before choosing to devote themselves to imitation. He performed his first sketches in the same issue, including the 1 st February 1970 (imitation Adamo ) or the 15 February 1970 , the anniversary of Jean Nohain where it simulates Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Jean Nohain . In 1971 , he released his first album The Ministry woozy , which is very popular. He gave his first performance as a star at Bobino in February-March 1972 and is the first part of Claude François on tour in the summer of 1972.

Success

From November 1972 to July 1973 , he hosted his first show on the first French channel  : The Tomboy Sunday . It creates the same year his new show at the Variety Theatre .

Thierry Le Luron tests each evening with his friends his last portraits fierce. The "band The Tomboy" includes Jacques Collard , Jacques Pessis , Pierre Guillermo , Francis Diwo Fournol and Luke and Bernard Mabille . In joyful feast in the restaurant of The Chamarré Jacques Collard, then at the Alcazar of Jean Marie River , and finally Castel , portraits, sketches and imitations are refined and give birth to very elaborate performances: the Olympia (December 1976), Bobino (February- April 1978 ), Theatre Marigny (October 1979-June 1980), Thierry Extravaganza at the Palais des Congress in Paris (November 1980-January 1981), From de Gaulle to Mitterrand at the Marigny Theatre (January- December 1983), The Tomboy released at the theater Gymnasium Mary Bell (November 1984-March 1986).

The last show attracted 400,000 viewers 2 . He then worked mainly with Bernard Mabille and created the character of Adolf Benito glandular, concierge rue de Bievre 3 , "fairly extensive caricature of the average French: an individual with no particular creed, influenced by events, and that defines the Tomboy: Pétain under Vichy, under General de Gaulle and Socialist May 10 to 11! " 2 .

It runs parallel to an intense television and radio: Chat pocket of Georges Feydeau as part of the theater tonight (released 24 October 1975 ), a number of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier (March 1976 and June 1979 ) This is the show ( 1,980 - 1981 ), etc.. From 1978 to 1979 , he hosted a weekly show, The Parasites of the antenna , on France Inter including Deerhunter , Lawrence Riesner , Bernard Mabille and Evelyne Grandjean as columnists. In 1981 , he recorded the credits of the animated television series Rody little Cid 4 .

Known for his impersonations of Valery Giscard d'Estaing when he was president (1974-1981), Thierry Le Luron Live parody Gilbert Bécaud , when issuing the Champs Elysees of 10 November 1984 , singing and blackmailing the public 's annoying, it's the rose - the rose being the symbol of the Socialist Party , in power since 1981, he dedicated this song to President Francois Mitterrand 5 .

On 25 September 1985 , he "married for better or for laughter" with great fanfare a Coluche disguised as a bride, a parody of marriage to Yves Mourousi to be held three days later at Nimes . The Tomboy said: "the future Mrs. Mourousi is sure to have both ears" 6 . This statement and the false marriage itself are often interpreted as a spike to a wedding and Yves Mourousi suspected lip, the latter being rather experienced in all of Paris at least, to his adventures male 7 .

External links

• Biography (in French)