French comedian Guillaume Bats died at the age of 36 on Thursday June 1, 2023. The causes of death are not yet known.
Guillaume Bats, one of the French comedians, died on Thursday June 1, 2023. The 36-year-old comedian’s production company, Dark Smile Productions, announced the news on Facebook: “C’ It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the death of Guillaume Bats, our great friend and brother in heart and on stage”. “We do not yet know the cause of this tragic event,” the company said..
Guillaume Bats, follower of black humor
The comedian suffered from osteogenesis imperfecta, better known as brittle bone disease. Guillaume Bats – Bareau of his real name – follower of black humor, never missed an opportunity to make his illness the subject of some of his sketches, notably presenting himself in one of his shows as the holder of the record for the number of postnatal fractures or even as “the funniest gargoyle in Paris”. The 30-year-old was currently on tour and presented his new one man show, inchallahin French cinemas.
From the start of his career, Guillaume Bat had befriended comedian Jérémy Ferrari. The latter had also participated in the production of certain shows of Guillaume Bats and took part in the writing of the last one man show of the comedian. The two artists also distinguished themselves on stage as a duo at festivals or for the famous “impossible duos by Jérémy Ferrari”.
What disease did Guillaume Bats suffer from?
Guillaume Bats was suffering from a rare hereditary disease causing bone fragility due to a defect in the synthesis of collagen in the bones. People affected by this disease can suffer from repeated fractures caused by minor trauma. Brittle bone disease can be of different types depending on its severity. Depending on the case, the disease is not life-threatening for patients, but for other patients with more serious forms, bone deformities can affect vital functions, in particular respiratory or cardiac functions.
The difficult childhood of Guillaume Bats
Born on April 14, 1987, Guillaume Bats has never hidden having had a complicated childhood. In 2019, during the launch of the tour of his show “Hors cadre!”, the comedian revealed to Here that he had been abandoned by his mother: “When I was born, I stayed less than a year with my mother. She didn’t take it, and I found myself in a nursery until the age of 4. Afterwards, I went to a center during the week and to a foster family at the weekend. , I stayed there full time, but two years later I had to leave.”
He reveals in 2020 in It starts today having seen his mother a few times in his childhood, but thanking her for not keeping him. “The best thing my mother did for me was abandon me. If I had stayed with her, I might not have developed this taste for the stage, I might not have had this humor and this self-mockery. My journey was chaotic, of course, but it is undoubtedly the one that brought me to this today.”
Guillaume Bats was 11 years old when he found a stable and loving family with “a slightly older lady”: “I consider her children as my uncles and aunts. Very quickly, I became an integral part of their family and , today, they are all behind me. Unfortunately, this mother of heart died in 2010, she could not see me on stage, it is the great sadness of my life”.
The shows and career of Guillaume Bats
Guillaume Bats began his career as a comedian in the 2000s, playing as an amateur at the MJC in Montmirail before obtaining his baccalaureate. After studying at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III, he opened for Anthony Kavanagh, Jean-Marie Bigard and the Count of Bouderbala, while doing his own solo Parisian and provincial dates. From 2013, he made the first parts of comedian Jeremy Ferrari, who helped him to become known to the general public. In 2017, we see him opening for Michaël Gregorio at the Olympia. The same year, he appeared on Laurent Baffie’s show Open Bar. In 2018, he played his only on stage “Hors cadre”.