Mathieu Cyr

Mathieu Cyr, born on 8 December 1975 in Maple Grove in Monteregie, is a Quebec humorist, host and author. Born into the world of sport and music, it was at the age of 31 that Mathieu Cyr discovered a passion for comedy. He previously attended six different schools and finished his secondary education with the help of a delinquency assistance program and adult education. Diagnosed as "twice exceptional", he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and giftedness, which he prefers to call "surefficience". At 21, he attended the Universite du Quebec a Montreal to study cultural programming and research. He entered the Ecole nationale de l'humour in 2005, graduated in 2007, and became known in 2010 during the final of the show En route vers mon premier gala Juste pour rire. The following year, he won the revelation of the year prize at the festival Comediha.

From 2012 to 2015, he hosted the show Slaque la cravate avec Mat on Teletoon. Mathieu Cyr did his first Gala Juste pour rire in 2014. In 2016, he obtained his first role as an actor, in the play Ma premiere fois, and was selected to represent Quebec at the festival Voorire, in Belgium. In 2018, he was asked to host the show Infiltration on Ztele; the same year, he launched his first one-man show Le chainon manquant and the podcast Le lift. He hosted in 2019 the television series Skate le monde, which took him travelling to 22 different countries, broadcast on TV5 canada and TV5 Monde. Also in 2019, he created viral comedic songs; his solo song En Abitibi reached first place on the franco chart of the ADISQ.

In 2020, Mathieu Cyr founded the company "Comeback Skateboards" and wrote the book Jamais Trop tard (Quebecor media edition). He presented in 2023 the show Avant la fin du monde with Olivier Martineau. The same year, he co-produced the web series A deux pilules d'etre folle hosted by Ashley-Jade Lussier; both projects were overseen by the company "Primeur productions", founded by Mathieu Cyr and Ashley-Jade Lussier. Also in 2023, he hosted the series Comment devenir un gourou, in which he made the hundreds of thousands of people who follow him believe that he had become a "wellness guru".