Jean-Luc Marie Lemoine (born 6 March 1970) is a French humourist, media personality and stand-up comedian.

Early life

A native of

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, Lemoine grew up in

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. His first scene was on his high school stage, in front of 800 fellow students. In 1993, he played at the Théâtre des Blancs-Manteaux in Paris for 15 days and later worked as a columnist for the satirical weekly ''Infos du Monde'', based upon '' Weekly World News'' in the United States. He started his television career on local Téléssonne channel. The following year, he played a show during 10 months, directed by Franck Dubosc.

Career

Lemoine was a regular guest on ''On a tout essayé'' on

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from 2001 to 2006, when he joined ''

On n'est pas couché ''On n'est pas couché'' was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m. and hosted by Laurent Ruquier. It was produced by Ruquier and Catherine Barma. It first aired on 16 September 2006; after fourteen seasons, it ended on ...

'' for two seasons. From 2011 until 2018, Lemoine was part of the slate of regular guests on '' Touche pas à mon poste!'' on France 4 and then D8, when the talk show hosted by Cyril Hanouna switched channels in 2012. He also had a weekly segment called ''Les Questions en 4/3''. In 2015, his segment became a TV special for one prime time. In 2013, he joined Hanouna on his radio programme '' Les pieds dans le plat'' broadcast on

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. From 2016 to 2017 and in 2017 respectively, he hosted the game shows ''Guess My Age'' and ''Couple or Not?'' on C8, both of which were created by Vivendi Entertainment and have spawned numerous international versions. Lemoine quit C8 in 2018. He has hosted ''Samedi d'en rire'' on

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since 2019."Jean-Luc Lemoine arrive sur France 3"
huffingtonpost.fr (in French), 18 June 2019. He has also been a regular guest on '' Les Grosses Têtes'' since 2019.

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