Guillaume Bats

Guillaume Bats came up through the French comedy circuit of the early 2010s. At the FIEALD festival at the Théâtre Trévise he performed the sketch Elle est pas belle la vie ?, and the clip travelled widely on Dailymotion. That exposure brought him to France 2 and On n'demande qu'à en rire, where he first turned up as a guest in a sketch by Waly Dia and later appeared in L'Adoption pour les nuls by Jérémy Ferrari.

Ferrari stayed close to his work as a co-writer, and Éric Antoine produced him. Before headlining he opened for Anthony Kavanagh, Jean-Marie Bigard and Comte de Bouderbala. His solo shows ran from Tous tordus through Attention à la tête, which held the Petit Gymnase in Paris for more than a year, to Hors Cadre, first staged at the Festival d'Avignon and later played at the Comédie des boulevards. His last show, Inchallah, went on tour in January 2023. On television he was seen in the Montreux Comedy Festival broadcasts and in the Duos Impossibles programme on C8, and he voiced a part in the animated film Nina et le Secret du hérisson.