Michel Barrette

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Michel Barrette
Michel Barrette during an interview
Born (1957-04-26) 26 April 1957 (age 67)
Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Actor, comedian, humorist
Years active1982–present

Michel Barrette (born April 26, 1957 in

stand-up comedian
. He has played various roles in Quebec movies and television shows since 1982.

Profile

After serving in the

Maurice "Rocket" Richard. He also appeared in several popular television series, including La Petite Vie in 1995, Scoop and Paparazzi. His most important role in television and arguably in his entire acting career was in KM/H, a TVA TV series in which he played the main character for nearly eight years. His second main role was as a detective in the series Un homme mort
in 2006.

Barrette has also been one of the most notable stand-up comedians in Quebec since 1983 and performed several one-man comedy shows province-wide, including En spectacle avec Michel Barrette in 1989, 100% Barrette in 1997, Quelques exces in 2000, 20 ans deja, je me souviens in 2004 and Michel Barrette, 100% neuf in 2006. He was also part of a major show to aid victims of the 1996

Saguenay Flood. He was a regular guest on Normand Brathwaite's defunct-satirical television show Piment Fort during the 1990s. His first famous role was his stand-up character named Roland "Hi-Ha" Tremblay, which became a hit around 1988, and was the basis for Serge Gaboury's comic strip of the same name, and also started the career of comic/actor Vincent Bolduc
, who became famous by playing the same routine at age 9 or 10.

He previously hosted, with Jean-Marc Parent, Casse-Tête, a Télé-Metropole show for the 1987 and 1988 seasons while he also hosted the TVA show Planete en folie in 1998.

He hosted several radio shows, including morning shows on Montreal radio stations CKOI, CKMF and more recently CHMP-FM.

In 2005, he traded one snowmobile to Kyle MacDonald of the book

One Red Paperclip for a "party in a keg" invention (a beer keg and a neon sign). The trade was a part of multiple consecutive bartering deals that allowed MacDonald to trade in a red paperclip for a house.[1]

In 2022, Barrette played in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda (Les 12 travaux d'Imelda), co-starring playwright Robert Lepage and actress-signer Ginette Reno, in which he plays Martin and Denis Villeneuve's uncle André.[2]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

  • Bye Bye (1990, 1996)
  • La Petite Vie (1995)
  • Scoop (1992–1995)
  • 10-07: L'affaire Zeus (1995)
  • 10-07: L'affaire Kalka (1996)
  • Paparazzi (1997)
  • KM/H (1998–2006)
  • Un homme mort (2006)
  • Le Gentleman (2009)
  • Rock et Rolland (2010)

References

  1. ^ Snowmobile trade with Kyle MacDonald
  2. ^ Jean Siag, "Les 12 travaux d’Imelda : Étonnante comédie" La Presse, October 28, 2022.

External links

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