Coluche

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Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci 28 October 1944 19 June 1986 better known under his stage name Coluche was a French stage comedian and cinema actor He adopted Coluche as a stage name at age 26 when he began his entertainment career He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment and he incorporated this into much of his material He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities as a source of humor on French television He also founded the charity Les Restaurants du Coeur which still provides free meals and other products to people in need Colucci was born on 28 October 1944 just weeks after the Liberation of Paris in a hospital in the 14th arrondissement of the city His mother Simone Bouyer called Monette worked as a florist in the Boulevard du Montparnasse His father Honorio Colucci from Casalvieri in Lazio Italy was a painter and decorator His father died in 1947 at age 31 from poliomyelitis his wife struggled thereafter to raise the young Michel and his sister Danièle 18 months older than Michel on a meagre salary Coluche showed little promise at school and left after completing his primary studies June 1958 He tried various temporary jobs and had several runins with authorities During this time his mother bought him a guitar which he taught himself to play In 1964 he joined the 60th Infantry Regiment de LonsleSaunier but was imprisoned for insubordination On his return to civilian life he worked in his mothers florist shop which she had been able to open on rue dAligre and later in a larger shop which she opened near la Gare de Lyon He found this work dull and suddenly quit which caused a longlasting breach with his mother At the end of the 1960s he tried his luck as a singer in cafes then turned to comedy In 1969 with Romain Bouteille he was present at the start of the Café de la Gare meeting place of a group of young comedic actors practically all of whom were to become famous Patrick Dewaere Henri Guybet MiouMiou Martin Lamotte etc Among the patrons of the Café de la Gare were Georges Moustaki Raymond Devos Jean Ferrat Jacques Brel Leni Escudero Pierre Perret and Jean Yanne Later they were joined by Gérard Lanvin Renaud Rufus Diane Kurys Coline Serreau Anémone Gérard Depardieu Thierry Lhermitte Josiane Balasko and Gérard Jugnot Coluches first sketch Cest lhistoire dun mec Its the story of a guy was about the difficulties of telling a funny story He quickly found success but alcohol problems forced him to leave the group He went on to found another group Le vrai chic parisien The true Parisian chic and it was then that he met his future wife Véronique Kantor They married in 1975 and had two sons Marius and Romain Colucci His behaviour and addictions forced him to leave the new group and launch his solo career It was at this point that he began to dress in his wellknown outfit of white tennis shoes blue striped overalls a bright yellow Tshirt and round glasses He became famous with his parody of a TV game Le Schmilblick He was sacked by the radio stations Europe 1 and Radio Monte Carlo for vulgarity Source Article Coluche from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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