Every week in his weekend notebook, The newspaper presents you with the help of some souvenir photos of remarkable moments in an artist’s career.
Career change
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Martin, 26 years old, in 1996. After graduating as a comedian, he gradually became known. Two years earlier he had made a radical career change. An administration graduate, he enrolled in the National School of Humor, much to the despair of his father, for whom he worked in the family’s door and window business in Laval.
First trophy
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During the first Les Oliviers gala in 1999. Martin, present on radio and television, had not yet presented his first show. Despite everything, he is awarded the “Revelation of the Year” trophy. He will accept numerous nominations and trophies for his career, always with the same openness and open smile.
Phenomenal success
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In 2003, 20 years ago! Martin while presenting his first solo exhibition True Stories at the St-Denis Theater. The tour ends at a packed Bell Center the following year after selling more than 250,000 tickets. At this time he also played Bruno, one of the characters in the TV comedy Caméra Café, on TVA.
His idol
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Great hug between Martin and Yvon Deschamps during the latter’s gala tribute in 2007 at Just for Laughs. Since his early childhood, Martin admired this great comedian, although he didn’t always understand his jokes because his parents listened to his monologues over and over again. Little did he know that one day he would do the same job.
TV family
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In 2014, the public discovered Martin’s “wife” Julie Le Breton and their children Charles William Ross and Émilie Bierre in Les beaux malaises.
As designer, co-writer and co-producer of the TVA series, the actor will enjoy ratings of almost two million viewers from the first season.
- The comedian will host his own talk show, Martin Matte live, from Thursday, September 28th at 8 p.m. on TVA, in a huge setting. Whoever performs live on stage promises funny and courageous entertainment. Ten meetings with employees and guests are planned. Patrick Huard will be the first. A humorous fiction, The last linkis also presented every Thursday, with actors Roy Dupuis, Isabel Richer, Alexis Martin and Geneviève Schmidt. With house band and Dumas as musical director.
- The series follows Belgium, France, Serbia, the Balkans and Greece The beautiful inconveniences is adapted and renamed in Flemish Belgium Boomers.
- Martin founded the Martin Matte Foundation, which helps people living with a physical disability or traumatic brain injury, like his brother, who was the victim of a car accident at age 17.
- Martin is followed by around 850,000 people on his Facebook page. He is always the cheerful spokesman for Max. Yes!