History Creator / Coluche

He started his career in DinnerTheatre shows at the Café de la Gare in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} in the late [[The60s 1960s]] alongside the likes of Creator/HenriGuybet and Miou-Miou and adopted his {{stage name|s}} at age 26, when his stage career took off. He became famous for his irreverent attitude towards [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem French politicians]] and establishment of TheSeventies and the early [[TheEighties '80s]], incorporating this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities for humorous effect on French television ("I'm coarse but not vulgar", as he said). While it started as a joke, he even considered running for the [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfFrance French presidency]] in 1981, then opted out under political pressure.

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (October 28, 1944 – June 19, 1986), better known as "Coluche", was a French [[RecordedAndStandUpComedy stage and television comedian]], film actor and charity patron of French and Italian descent.

He started his career in DinnerTheatre shows at the the Café de la Gare in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} in the late [[The60s 1960s]] alongside the likes of Creator/HenriGuybet and Miou-Miou and adopted his {{stage name|s}} at age 26, when his stage career took off. He became famous for his irreverent attitude towards [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem French politicians]] and establishment of TheSeventies and the early [[TheEighties '80s]], incorporating this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities for humorous effect on French television ("I'm coarse but not vulgar", as he said). While it started as a joke, he even considered running for the [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfFrance French presidency]] in 1981, then opted out under political pressure.

He adopted his {{stage name|s}} at age 26, when his stage career took off. He became famous for his irreverent attitude towards [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem French politicians]] and establishment of TheSeventies and the early [[TheEighties '80s]], incorporating this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities for humorous effect on French television ("I'm coarse but not vulgar", as he said). While it started as a joke, he even considered running for the [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfFrance French presidency]] in 1981, then opted out under political pressure.

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (October 28, 1944 – June 19, 1986), better known as "Coluche", was a French [[RecordedAndStandUpComedy stage and television comedian]], film actor and charity patron of French and Italian descent.

A fan of motorcycling, Coluche died in a road accident (he crashed into a truck) on June 19, 1986 in Opio, near Grasse, in the South-Eastern French department of Alpes-Maritimes, at the age of 41. For many French people, he remains a gone-too-soon icon of TheEighties.

A {{biopic}} about him was released in 2008 in which he was portrayed by François-Xavier Demaison, titled ''Coluche: L'Histoire d'un mec''.

* ''Film/TheWingOrTheThigh'' (1976) as Gérard Duchemin
* ''Film/InspectorBlunder'' (1980) as inspecteur Michel Clément

* HeAlsoDid: In 1981, he temporarily [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] a sick Jacques Delaporte as Belzebuth (a [[SuccubiAndIncubi horny demon]]) in performances of the song [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cuc4 "La Salsa du Démon"]] by L'Orchestre du Splendid'.

* HeAlsoDid: In 1981, he temporarily [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] Jacques Delaporte as Belzebuth (a [[SuccubiAndIncubi horny demon]]) in performances of the song [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cuc4 "La Salsa du Démon"]] by L'Orchestre du Splendid'.

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