Jean-Marie Arrus was a comedian, famous in his native Alsace
and Haut-Rhin department.
Arrus was born in Colmar, in an Alsatian dialect speaking
family. Early on in life, Arrus knew he wanted to be a clown, fascinated by the
world of entertainment.
It was in 1989 that he managed to get noticed by succeeding,
among 250 candidates, the selections for the television program "La
Classe" on FR3.
He created the Colmar Laughter Festival, which later became
the Colmar Humor Festival. His show "Que des Histoires" was a comic
one-man show aimed at an
Alsatian-Mosellan audience, where he successively pitched a gallery of Alsatians
caricatured characters, such as "Berry" the "Bür" (Alsatian
peasant), "Madame Ida" the cleaning lady, and others. His sketch on
the "Alsatian Breathalyzer" has been viewed over a million times on
Youtube.
Jean-Marie Arrus died on Wednesday August 22, 2018 at the
age of 62 at the Strasbourg Civil Hospital (France, Bas-Rhin).
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