Thomas Ngijol

Thomas Ngijol born October 30 1978 in Paris is a French comedian actor and director A standup specialist he became known to the general public through his work with the Jamel Comedy Club The son of Gilbert Ngijol a Cameroonian sociologist and Crescence Ngijol a nurse he was born in Paris and grew up in MaisonsAlfort in the ValdeMarne region of Paris In the 2000s he worked as a facilitator at the Aimé et Eugénie Cotton primary school in BonneuilsurMarne in the ValdeMarne region He then met Dieudonné while participating in the caféthéâtre classes given at the Théâtre de la Main dOr in Paris He was noticed at the Juste pour rire festival in Nantes with a special tribute to Richard Pryor He then performed for a while at the Moloko in Paris He wrote a oneman show called Bienvenue which he performed in small Parisian venues before being noticed by Kader Aoun The latter opened the doors of the Jamel Comedy Club for him He will be featured in a comedy produced and directed by Alex Alabaz of the Kourtrajmé collective Les Abyssiens He also became known on television on Canal in the show Le Grand Journal with a daily column for two seasons 20062008 His most famous sketches are Un Superman noir Les jeux olympiques dhiver Le Bac and Mon retour du Cameroun In September 2008 he joined Stéphane Berns show Le Fou du roi on France Inter In 2010 during the Football World Cup he presented the show Ils se foot du monde with Darren Tulett on the Comédie channel In October 2010 he directed his first film with his colleague and accomplice Fabrice Éboué entitled Case départ a popular comedy about slavery a theme rarely treated in this way in French cinema set in the West Indies He is also one of the main actors and the screenwriter This film a theatrical success was a pleasant surprise according to the French media At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival he was named patron of the Youth Prize In February 2014 the comedy Le Crocodile du Botswanga was released in theaters in which he played one of the main roles with Fabrice Éboué who directed the film it was again a success In July 2014 he directed wrote the screenplay for and starred in his own film the comedy FastLife The name of the main character Ebagué is a reference to his name in Cameroon His partner actress Karole Rocher gave birth to a daughter Angelina in May 2014 just before the films release