Fabien Olicard

Fabien Olicard born November 22 1982 in La Rochelle is a French mentalist humorist and web videographer Known for his memorization techniques and his humor he has been performing in shows since 2011 Videographer on YouTube he has performed in major French venues such as the Zénith de Paris and the Olympia He has written several books on psychology the brain and memory Fabien Olicard is the third child of Marcel Olicard and Cathy Picoron He spent his childhood in Marsilly At 7 or 8 years old an QI test reveals to him that he has a eidetic memory almost photographic It was also at this age that he began to become passionate about illusionism after buying the book Cours Magica by Robert Veno in a garage sale After having repeated his second Fabien Olicard will go to the science baccalaureate which he will not obtain and will stop his studies He devoted himself to illusionism and specialized in the mid2000s in mentalism Multiplying training he exercises his memory as a waiter in a restaurant In 2007 he presented himself at the Golden Cannes and won the 1st prize in the category closeup Spotted by a producer he works on the humor festival of SaintMartin Until 2011 he performed in his native region his shows remained confidential The Comédie des 3 Bornes allows him to perform in Paris He stayed there for two years before playing his show every Tuesday at the Théâtre du PointVirgule then at the Grand PointVirgule His show is a series of demonstrations of mentalism neurosciences and nonverbal communication techniques such as cold reading prosody graphology and synergology He enjoyed success there helped by the television broadcast in France of the American series Mentalist which popularized mental magic New content creator he launches his YouTube channel Fabien Olicard goes from a few hundred to more than 200000 subscribers by posting a video daily throughout 2016 It occupies the unoccupied niche of mental prowess and invites us to decode the nonverbal communication on video This online success allows him to multiply his media appearances such as in the show Cest que de la télé on C8 or Vivement dimanche dimanche Columnist for the program Antidote on France 2 he takes part in a special evening broadcast on the channel in September 2021 This is entitled Voyage au cœur de la mémoire He will also participate in several episodes of the show EM6 broadcast on M6 and will make several TED talks In 2018 he created his new show Singularité which he performed at the Olympia in Paris at the Eiffel Tower theater and at La Seine musicale Among his tricks he manages to guess the first name or astrological sign of a stranger deduce the color of a card from microexpressions or even have the public memorize the first decimals of pi He writes books and publishes board games around magic and mentalism In 2020 he launched a monthly magazine called Curiouz and a podcast called Lhippocampe On March 15 2023 he became a member of the show Les Grosses Têtes hosted by Laurent Ruquier Source Article Fabien Olicard from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30