Fabien Olicard
Acting
Biography
Fabien Olicard, born November 22, 1982, in La Rochelle, is a French mentalist, humorist and web videographer. Known for his memorization techniques and his humor, he has been performing in shows since 2011. Videographer on YouTube, he has performed in major French venues such as the Zénith de Paris and the Olympia. He has written several books on psychology, the brain and memory. Fabien Olicard is the third child of Marcel Olicard and Cathy Picoron. He spent his childhood in Marsilly. At 7 or 8 years old, an Q.I. test reveals to him that he has a eidetic memory (almost photographic). It was also at this age that he began to become passionate about illusionism after buying the book Cours Magica by Robert Veno in a garage sale. After having repeated his second, Fabien Olicard will go to the science baccalaureate which he will not obtain and will stop his studies. He devoted himself to illusionism and specialized, in the mid-2000s, in mentalism. Multiplying training, he exercises his memory as a waiter in a restaurant. In 2007, he presented himself at the Golden Cannes and won the 1st prize in the category close-up. Spotted by a producer, he works on the humor festival of Saint-Martin. Until 2011, he performed in his native region, his shows remained confidential. The Comédie des 3 Bornes allows him to perform in Paris. He stayed there for two years before playing his show every Tuesday at the Théâtre du Point-Virgule then at the Grand Point-Virgule. His show is a series of demonstrations of mentalism, neurosciences and nonverbal communication techniques, such as cold reading, prosody, graphology and synergology. He enjoyed success there, helped by the television broadcast in France of the American series Mentalist which popularized "mental magic". New content creator he launches his YouTube channel. Fabien Olicard goes from a few hundred to more than 200,000 subscribers by posting a video daily throughout 2016. It occupies the unoccupied niche of mental prowess and invites us to decode the nonverbal communication on video. This online success allows him to multiply his media appearances such as in the show C'est que de la télé on C8 or Vivement dimanche dimanche. Columnist for the program Antidote on France 2, he takes part in a special evening broadcast on the channel in September 2021. This is entitled Voyage au cœur de la mémoire. He will also participate in several episodes of the show E=M6 broadcast on M6 and will make several TED talks. In 2018, he created his new show Singularité which he performed at the Olympia in Paris, at the Eiffel Tower theater and at La Seine musicale. Among his tricks, he manages to guess the first name or astrological sign of a stranger, deduce the color of a card from micro-expressions or even have the public memorize the first decimals of pi. He writes books and publishes board games around magic and mentalism. In 2020, he launched a monthly magazine called Curiouz and a podcast called "L'hippocampe". On March 15, 2023, he became a member of the show Les Grosses Têtes hosted by Laurent Ruquier. Source: Article "Fabien Olicard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.
Quotidien
A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
Fort Boyard
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
Télématin
Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and the media. The set is designed as an arena where artists, polemicists, intellectuals, politicians, top athletes, and powerful figures come together. Permanent guest Christophe Dechavanne can intervene at any time during the show. Comedian Philippe Caverivière is also present with a segment dedicated to the political week and another devoted to celebrity news and social media.
Quelle époque !
In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.
The Unexpected Getaway
Kyan Khojandi and Bruno Muschio (Navo) host different guests each week to spend A Good Time.
Un bon moment
In a magnificent castle, personalities will take part in an experience they will never forget. A game of lies, manipulation, and betrayal, hosted by Éric Antoine, where anything goes. Among the players, some will be designated as traitors, while the others will be loyal. Day and night, the traitors must lie about their true identity, devise strategies to deceive the loyal players, and secure their place in the game. To achieve this, they must win challenges, withstand psychological pressure, outwit strategies, and mislead their enemies. Most importantly, they must avoid elimination to be the last one standing and win the game!
The Traitors France
French adaptation of the British quiz show where contestants try to answer a question that only 1% of the country can get right.
100 % logique : La réponse est sous vos yeux
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BOAT - La culture au sens large
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Chez Ruquier
For the sixth consecutive year, Jérémy Ferrari has assembled a cast of comedians to act out never-before-seen sketch duos for the evening.
Les duos impossibles de Jérémy Ferrari : 6ème édition
Léa and Loïc, two young students, meet in the evening. Very quickly, they are attracted to each other ... It is in their respective brains that the Brain Company will step in to help them better understand life situations and make the right decisions.
The Brain Company
Hosted by Kyan Khojandi, in sixty minutes, sixty artists follow one another on stage. Which means they have sixty seconds, and not one more, to hold the spectators' attention and draw them into their world. The witticisms fuse, forming a veritable fireworks display of witticisms and funny situations, to the delight of viewers, but also of guest comedians.
Sixty-two
69 artists from all walks of life take to the stage to perform a 69-second creation on the themes of love and sexuality.
Sixty-nine
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Antidote
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Fabien Olicard prend le temps d'en rire
The complete and enriched story of the Chouette d'Or. An owl worth a million buried for over two decades.
Sur les traces de la Chouette d'Or
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