Panayotis Pascot

Panayotis Pascot is a French humorist, actor, screenwriter, director and writer, born on 9 August 1998 in Amiens. He is the son of Philippe Pascot, a writer and political figure also an administrator of the association Anticor, and of a schoolteacher, and is the youngest of a family of six children. At 12 he launched with friends the website Cogitum-Cogitum. In early 2014 he joined the Vine network where he made humorous six-second videos; it was through Vine that he met Freddy Gladieux, with whom he then wrote his columns for Le Petit Journal and Quotidien.

In 2015, aged 17, Panayotis Pascot combined preparing his baccalaureat scientifique with a weekly column in Le Petit Journal on Canal+. When in 2016 Yann Barthes left Canal+ for TMC and his new program Quotidien, Panayotis Pascot followed him, leaving the program a year later. In 2016 he obtained his first film role in the comedy by Francois Desagnat, Adopte un veuf, playing the role of Julien. From October 2019 he performed his first solo show Presque, first at the Grand Point-Virgule then at the theatre Antoine in March 2020.

In 2023 he published his first autobiographical account, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussiere, by editions Stock, in which he addresses his depressive periods, his relationship with his father, and his homosexuality; the account was adapted for the theatre in 2024, directed by his brother Paul Pascot. In June 2024 he announced his new solo show titled Entre les deux, whose performances began in late 2024. He also appeared in films such as Le Daim (2019) by Quentin Dupieux and series such as En place (from 2023).