Arthur

Arthur born Jacques Essebag 10 March 1966 is a TV presenter producer and comedian After dropping from law studies he began his career as a host on local radio in the Paris region in the late 1980s In the early 1990s he found a certain notoriety by presenting programs on Fun Radio Europe 1 and Europe 2 Arthur et les pirates PlanetArthur and Radio Arthur Starting in 1991 he became the host of television programs first on France 2 and TF1 Les Enfants de la télé La Fureur Meanwhile he started a theatrical career with two oneman shows Arthur en vrai 2005 and I Show 2009 and portraying Peter Brochan in Le Dîner de Cons 2007 alongside Dany Boon Since the mid1990s he has also been an entrepreneur in the audiovisual field He was until 2006 vice president of the French subsidiary of production company Endemol Since 2008 he has been the owner of Ouï FM Jacques Essebag was born on 10 March 1966 in Casablanca His father Michel Essebag was a chartered accountant and his mother a housewife He has a brother Olivier Like many Moroccan Jews his parents left Morocco in 1967 during the SixDay War and settled in the Paris region in Massy After high school he began studying law at Sceaux at the Faculty of Law Jean Monnet of the University of ParisSud 11 While he repeated his first year he made his debut radio broadcast on the local radio station MassyPal on which he hosted the show Tonus which provided sports scores for the city In 1987 he became a presenter on RFM He took the pseudonym of Arthur to distinguish from a homonym In 1988 he spent a short time on Kiss Fm then joined Skyrock in 1989 With Skyman he created Les zigotos du matin In 1991 he joined Fun Radio to host programs from 630 am900 am in which he created games such as the provocative Orgasmotron simulation of a live female orgasm His notoriety grew when thanks to a publicity campaign for his program in which he presented himself as the greatest cunt of the FM band On Fun he met Emmanuel Lévy aka Maître Lévy who became his director and accompanied him in his TV career He left Fun Radio the following season in 1992 to join Europe 1 which wanted to rejuvenate its audience There he hosted for four seasons Arthur et les pirates between 430 pm600 pm with Maître Levy Alexandre Devois Captain Sboob Princess Jade met on Skyrock Rémy Caccia and Michèle Bernier He hosted the same games as he did on Fun During the first season the show took place among the audience In September 1996 he returned on Europe 2 to host La Matinale from 8 am to 930 am then from 730 am to 9 am from 1997 The show was recorded a series of sketches with false listeners The humoristic team was composed of Maître Levy Gad Elmaleh Axelle Laffont Tex Gus Gustave de Kervern of Groland François Meunier JC of Skyrock and Philippe Lelièvre At the beginning of 2000 Arthur left Europe 2 and hosted PlanetArthur on Fun Radio every afternoon from 400 pm to 630 pm alongside Maître Levy Myriam Valérie Benaïm and Cyril Hanouna Source Article Arthur TV presenter from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30