 He became interested at an early age in the comic field, and rather than a career as a lawyer or a journalist, he did not follow his parents and began a career in theater at the age of 16.During his studies at the Lycée Georges Clémenceau in Nantes, he played his first theater role in 1965.During the 1980s, he was the host of several television programmes, such as "Suivez Lecoq" (1980-1981), "L'académie des neuf" (1987-1991 on Antenne 2), and "Tout le monde il est gentil" (1989-1990 on La Cinq).