Mustapha El Atrassi

Mustapha El Atrassi, born on 30 August 1985 in Saint-Doulchard (Cher), is a Franco-Moroccan humorist, columnist, television and radio presenter. A practitioner of stand-up, he wrote and performed about ten shows between 2006 and 2024. He grew up in Tours, in the Europe (Beffroi) district, and attended the college Jean de La Bruyere. He took up theatrical improvisation while at college and discovered stand-up during a school trip to England. In 2003, he was a finalist in the comedians' contest 15 ans, 15 talents organised by the Moroccan channel 2M, and gained fame in Morocco by playing a lead role in the sitcom R'bib by Said Naciri, broadcast on 2M during Ramadan 2004. In 2005 he made his stage debut at the Theatre Trevise in Paris, and in 2006 he took part in the first edition of the Jamel Comedy Club.

Spotted by Laurent Ruquier, he became a columnist on several of his shows: On va s'gener on Europe 1, On a tout essaye and On n'est pas couche (2006-2007) on France 2. From 2008 to 2011, he co-hosted Le 6/9 on NRJ, alongside Florian Gazan, Nikos Aliagas, then Karine Ferri. From October 2009, he presented his own talk-show, La nuit nous appartient, which ended in December 2012. In November 2016, he joined Le Grand Journal on Canal+ for a comedic trial. In 2011, he took part in the Laugh Factory contest in Los Angeles, where he was selected and performed for several weeks in English; a documentary, L.A Trassi, was filmed on that occasion with Mouloud Achour and broadcast on 9 February 2012 on Comedie+. He returned to perform in the United States in 2013 and 2018. In 2015, he founded his production company, Chicha Production.

In July 2022, at the end of his Game Over tour, he announced he was quitting stand-up, declaring that the profession was "eating him from the inside". He nevertheless returned to the stage in October 2024 with the show Renaissance, which he performed at L'Europeen in Paris until mid-2025. The son of parents originally from the Missaoui tribe, he grew up in a family marked by his parents' separation, living in France with his father while his mother and sisters lived in Morocco. In 2007 he was in a relationship with the journalist and presenter Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, and from 2011 to 2018 with the actress Ornella Fleury.