After having lifted the veil on the shadow profession of artists’ agents, Fanny Herrero, the creator of Ten percentdives behind the scenes of the stand-up scene. Funnyavailable since Friday on Netflix, features four young Parisian comedians. 20 minutes asked stand-up professionals if the four heroes of Funny, Nezir, Aïssatou, Apolline and Bling, were realistic. In this episode of our video series “We fact-checked the characters of Funny”, we submitted the character of Apolline, played by Elsa Guedj, to the expert eye of comedian Caroline Vigneaux.
In the fiction “Funny”
Apolline, played by Elsa Guedj, is a young woman from the Parisian bourgeoisie. She finished her studies at the Ecole du Louvre and was about to go to work in London in a prestigious auction house. Will his discovery of stand-up upset his career? To learn more, visit Netflix.
In real life
Daughter of an engineer and a speech therapist from Nantes, Caroline Vigneaux received a rather strict education in private religious establishments. A law graduate from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the young woman takes an oath and puts on a lawyer’s robe after passing through the Bar Training School. She pleaded for several years, working for prestigious firms, such as the American firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, which she joined in 2005.
But his vocation is elsewhere. In 2001, she joined the theater troupe of the Union of Young Lawyers. In 2008, she dropped her brilliant career as a lawyer to embark on humor. She enrolled at the Cours Florent and worked on her first show, There was a fairy. She stands out with her second one-woman-show, Caroline Vigneaux leaves the dress, where she describes with great self-mockery her past as a lawyer and her career change. His latest show titled Caroline Vigneaux bites the apple, nominated for the 2019 Molières, has been a hit since its launch in 2018. On stage, the “optimistic feminist” comedian distills with crazy energy a history of feminism as joyfully quirky as it is instructive, with a hilarious finale in apotheosis on taboos feminine. “At one point, I said to myself that we had to break these taboos, I’m going far because I’m on stage,” she laughs. A show that will notably take him to Olympia in Paris from April 13 to 16.