Louis-José Houde (born October 19, 1977 in
Quebec CityQuébec , is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about to the southwest...
,
QuebecQuebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking identity and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) is a French-Canadian
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, who mostly does
stand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand...
and also has his own TV show. Recently Houde has broken into acting in feature films, such as the 2006 hit movie,
Bon Cop, Bad CopBon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about English Canadian and Québécois police officers who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...
. He is a graduate of Quebec's École nationale de l'humour.
Houde has hosted two TV shows on Radio-Canada:
Louis-José Houde, à suivre... (2005) and
Ici Louis-José Houde (2006).
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Louis-José Houde (born October 19, 1977 in
Quebec CityQuébec , is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about to the southwest...
,
QuebecQuebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking identity and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) is a French-Canadian
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, who mostly does
stand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand...
and also has his own TV show. Recently Houde has broken into acting in feature films, such as the 2006 hit movie,
Bon Cop, Bad CopBon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about English Canadian and Québécois police officers who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...
. He is a graduate of Quebec's École nationale de l'humour.
Houde has hosted two TV shows on Radio-Canada:
Louis-José Houde, à suivre... (2005) and
Ici Louis-José Houde (2006). In 2003, he won a
Félix AwardThe Félix Award is a music award, given on an annual basis to artists in the Canadian province of Quebec.The first Félix awards were presented on September 23, 1979, by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois ....
for comic show of the year.
Houde championed
Un petit pas pour l'homme by Stéphane Dompierre in
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.
Houde is particularly known for his extremely quick speech.