Profile of Coluche on Famous Like Me

Michel Colucci (October 28, 1944 - June 19, 1986), better known as Coluche, was a famous French comedian who "went the extra mile" to rock the establishment.

Colucci adopted "Coluche" as a stage name at 26, when he began his artistic career.

He attempted to present himself at French presidential elections in 1981, but was obliged to cancel because of politic and medias lobbying following polls that showed a non-negligible part of the electorate would vote for him. Some threats to his life were also mentionned.

He created the "Restos du cœur" in 1985. They collect food, money and clothes for the needy and the homeless.

His passing away in 1986 in a motorcycle accident provoked national grief.

Since his comedy is very French and quite untranslatable, he is not well known outside France.

Coluche won the César Award for "Best Actor" for his role in So Long, Stooge (1983).

Famous quotes

• In a dictatorship you're told: "Shut up!". In a democracy it's: "Yeah, whatever you say."
• A neutral country is one which does not sell weapons to a country at war; unless it pays cash.
• God said: let's share. The rich will get enough to eat, and the poor will have appetite.
• Just because there are so many of them being wrong doesn't mean they're right. (on Democracy)
• I know I look stupid, but I owe it much to the uniform. (posing as a cop)
• Some people get a kid just because they can't afford a dog.
• Society didn't want us? Well, it can rest assured that we don't want it either!
• Long term credit means that the less you can pay, the more you pay.
• God created alcohol so that ugly women can have sex anyway.
• If sportspeople stopped doping, what would we look like, waiting in front of our TVs for them to beat the records?
• Death: if you're hit, you'd better make fun of it; if you're not, there's no reason not to make fun of it.
• Communism is one of the few grave diseases we didn't try on animals first.
• Psychiatrists are very efficient: I used to pee in my bed and be ashamed of it. I went to see a psychiatrist and now I'm cured. Now I pee in my bed and I'm proud of it.
• I'm not a nouveau riche, I'm a former poor.
• Of all those who have nothing to say, the best are those who keep quiet.
• They say the crisis is making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I can't see how that's a crisis. It's always been so ever since I was a kid.

External link

• Official website (in French)
• Coluche at the Internet Movie Database

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