Dominique Farrugia

Dominique Farrugia born 2 September 1962 is a French actor film director screenwriter producer humorist and comedian He is a member and founder of the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Alain Chabat Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette Farrugia was born in Vichy France to a Jewish piednoir and Maltese family Since the launching of Canal in 1984 he works in editing trailers and as a broadcast production assistant on the Tous en scène show Thus he meets Canal first weatherman Alain Chabat with whom he would form the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette in 1986 In 1987 he is included in the writing of the TV series Objective nul 7 dOr for best comedy TV show the first parody by Les Nuls He hosts a parodic weather forecast in the JTN of Nulle part ailleurs from 1987 to 1988 Initially he did not want to act but rather write The absence of one of the actors in an episode of Objective nul accidentally placed him in front of the camera TVN 595 a TV special which was broadcast in October 1988 won the 7 dOr for best show Les Nuls career lasts until 1992 In 1994 La Cité de la peur is released making 3216436 entries in the French box office After Les Nuls split Dominique Farrugia starts a film career as a director with Delphine 1 Yvan 0 and Trafic dinfluence He subsequently becomes a producer founding the RF2K production company with the actor Olivier Granier In 1997 he founded the cable and satellite TV channel Comédie discovering new comic talents such as Les Robins des Bois Franck Dubosc Titoff Kad Olivier and Jonathan Lambert In April 2001 he created the cable and satellite TV channel Cuisine TV In 20012002 he produces Vidocq 1865998 entries in France and Monsieur Batignole 1872045 entries in France In 2002 he first becomes directorgeneral and deputy director of broadcasting and programming at Canal and later president from April 2002 to February 2003 and to date only assistant becoming president of Canal In July 2003 he created FEW Farrudg Entertainment Worldwide a media company producing feature films In 2007 he produced the show of Manu Payet then two years later of Laurent Lafitte In 2009 he launched the website Les graves infos which presents false news The site is closed on 23 February 2010 In 2010 he codirected with Arnaud Lemort the film Lamour cest mieux à deux 1250000 entries in France more profitable movie of 2010 with its particular stage of Clovis Cornillac Virginia Efira and Manu Payet Between September 2010 and May 2011 he is a columnist in the show Tout le monde il est beau tout le monde il est gentil hosted by Bruce Toussaint every Sunday on Canal On 20 November 2012 FEW his production company and Luc Bessons EuropaCorp signed an agreement under which all FEW films will be produced exclusively in partnership with EuropaCorp Source Article Dominique Farrugia from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30