Stéphane Guillon

Stéphane Guillon is a French stand-up comedian, satirist, actor and radio and television chronicler born on December 6, 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is known for a dark, corrosive humor that uses provocation as a deliberate tool: on the poster for one of his shows he even adopted Nicolas Sarkozy's own put-down of him - "he is offensive, he is vulgar and he is mean". For roughly a decade he was the face of biting political satire on French public radio before a high-profile firing in 2010 turned him into one of the country's most-discussed satirists.

Stéphane Guillon emerged in stand-up at the end of the 1980s and quickly moved into television and radio chronicling. From 1999 to 2000 he collaborated with Michel Muller on the segment "Fallait pas l'inviter" within Canal+'s "Nulle part ailleurs" hosted by Nagui. From 2003 to 2005 he contributed to "20h10 pétantes" on Canal+ alongside Stéphane Bern, and in 2006 returned to the channel as a regular columnist on Thierry Ardisson's "Salut les Terriens". His most influential role was a daily morning chronicle on France Inter that reached around two million listeners and made him a national figure. In June 2010 he was fired alongside fellow satirist Didier Porte after sustained controversies, including a piece on Immigration Minister Éric Besson that described him as a "rampant liar" infiltrating the Socialist Party for the far right - a sketch that President Nicolas Sarkozy publicly called "inadmissible". The dismissals triggered protests outside Maison de la Radio and became a national debate on freedom of satire. As a stand-up performer, Guillon has built a parallel career with one-man-shows including "Petites Horreurs Entre Amis" (2002), "En avant la Musique" (2006), "Liberté (très) surveillée" (2010), and "Certifié Conforme" (2016), which toured extensively across France. His style is direct, pessimistic and politically unflinching, aimed at making audiences laugh in order to make them think.

Stéphane Guillon tours France regularly with updated one-man-shows that cycle through current political and social topics, with dates announced through his official website stephaneguillon.fr and major French ticketing platforms. He also continues to appear as a chronicler and panelist on French television and radio. Clips from his shows and TV appearances are available on his official YouTube channel and on the platforms of past employers including Canal+, France Inter and France 2.