Edgar-Yves Monnouh
Edgar-Yves Monnouh Jnr., is a Beninese-born French Stand-up comedian. He is a member of The Golden Comedy Club of Paris. Personal life. He is the son of Beninese politician Edgar Yves Monnou. When Monnouh was a child, his family moved to France because his father was Benin's ambassador in Paris. Comedy career. At first, he didn't want to do stand-up comedy. However, his friends told him to make videos on the internet. At the time, he was in Nantes where he signed up with the café-théâtre company to improve acting  for his videos. In 2013, he created the West Side comedy club in Nantes. With the show, the bar at the café-théâtre filled up and every Wednesday there were 120 people. He played his show all the time, three times a week. He become a columnist on Rire & Chansons in 2017. Meanwhile, he met Jeff Panocloc's producer Philippe Delmas. Delmas offered Monnouh to come to Paris at the Apollo Theater. In the same year, he moved to Paris and conducted several stand-up comedy shows in different theaters in Paris. The tour started 22 April at the Comédie  de Toulouse, then moved to April 28 and 29 in Metz at the café-theater Le Burlesque, May 21 at Les Fous rires de Toulouse and June 7 at the Théâtre de l'Ouest in Rouen.