Jerôme Niel (also known as Jérôme Puydebat, born on 14 June 1985) is a French humorist, choreographer, writer, comedian and video producer working among other things for the French cable TV channel
Canal+
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.
Background
Niel was born in Trappes in the
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.[baccalauréat
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with a specialization in economics and social sciences, he worked as a salesman in gardening tools. He went on to study languages at university for two and a half months. A few months later, he joined a radio school. Having arrived in Paris he worked for
RMC as a switchboarder to pay his rent. In Paris, he began uploading his videos on
YouTube
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and was noticed by
MTV
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, for which he shot forty episodes.
In May 2013, ''
Le Grand Journal'' noticed Jérôme's web series Groom Service in
Montreux
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and hired him to make episodes with stars of the
Cannes Film Festival
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Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...
. Although
had stopped presenting ''Le Grand Journal'', Jérôme continued to work for the channel, creating a
miniseries
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named Les Tutos, already present on the internet through the Studio Bagel. In September 2014, he went on to work for
Canal + with the creation of a miniseries called ''Speakerine'' broadcast daily in ''Le Grand Journal'', which centers around the humorous analysis of one of that night's TV programs on French television. Niel takes part in the video Imagine Paris, in which with some thirty other YouTubers, he covers
John Lennon
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's song "Imagine".
References
* Émission On ne parle que de ça du 27/11/2013
Jérôme Niel, un humour tout-écran Le Monde
*Louis Ritot
« Attentats de Paris : les youtubeurs français reprennent Imagine en mémoire des victimes (Vidéo) » sur Closer, 20 novembre 2015
Living people
1985 births
French male comedians
Comedians from Île-de-France
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