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Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine Shirley Souagnon is a French comedian and humorist, born in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine) on October 3, 1986,. After beginning the stand-up in 2008, she establishes herself two years later to the public thanks to her participation to the TV show On n'demande qu'à en rire.

Youth and formation
She was in Clichy from french-ivorian parents. She grows with often relocations, from Asnières-sur-Seine to Flèche (Sarthe) also going throuh Picardie, London or Savigny-le-Temple (Seine-et-Marne) where she spends all her middle school. Then she studies science subjects at Léonard de Vinci (Édouard Branly) high school of Melun.

She plays basketball intensively during ten years and joins the team of Madison High School in Houston, Texas, for one year at the age of 17.

Shirley appears for the first time on television at 8 years old for and advert of the 96 European Cup and in one épisode of Navarro,.

2006-2010 : beginning on stage, television epiphany
Back in France, she goes into theater and then humour. She writes her first sketch in 2006 ans plays her first one-womand-show Sketch Up ! in 2008 at Théâtre Le Bout in Paris. In the next year, she is identified in Pliés en 4 (on France 4), Paris fait sa comédie and the Youhumour festival. She wins La route du Rire in 2009 and then the Prix Jeune Talent de l'année 2010 in the awards category « Humour ». She joins the team of the Jamel Comedy Club in 2010 and participates at Comedy Club Live as a colmunist on the radio « Mouv’ ». She plays Franck Dubosc’s first part at the Olympia from the 1st to the 9th of october 2010 and participates at the Ni putes ni soumises’ gala on november 8, 2010.

From the 14th september to the 24th of november 2010, she participates 6 times at the show  On n’demande qu’à en rire on France 2 as a candidate.

She plays at the Festival du rire of Montreux in december 2010.

2011-2012 : radio columnist, stage confirmation
Starting from the February 5, 2011, she is columnist at the weekly show Samedi Roumanoff on Europe 1. The show stops in 2014. In July 2011, she participates for the first time at the Montreal’s festival Juste pour rire.

She comes back on september 20, 2011, in the second season of On n’demande qu’à en rire on France 2, beginning where she stopped at the her number of 21 skecths and now famous in front of the eyes of the public. She comes back for two sketchs during the third season. She leaves the show on October 9, 2012, after thirty participations.

She plays her first show Sketch Up for nearly one year at the Théâtre de Dix heures between 2010 and 2011 from Thursday to Saturday at 8pm.

On March 31, 2012, she plays her first spectacle at La Cigale. She headlines at the Comédie de Paris ont Sundays and Mondays starting from January 15, 2012, to June 25, 2012. In 2012, she becomes godmother of the woman basketball league, with which she produces spectacles combining basketball and humour.

Publicly lesbian, she mades it a skitch names « Gay, gay, gay », in a context of the debates about homosexual weddings in France.

2014-2016 : actress, producer, TV presentator
In 2014, Shirley Souagon joins the cast of the serie Engrenages and opens simultaneously her producing society named On Time Productions.

In November 2014, she produces her second spectacle, ''Free ! The One Woman Funky Show''¸which mixes music and humour with a band she presents to the public : The Krooks, composed by Jérôme Cornelis, Davy Honnet and Anthony Honnet.

Starting from May 2, 2015, she presents the show Mieux vaut en rire on France Ô.

On December 11, 2015, Shirley Souagnon & The Krooks present « Free » at La Cigale, co-produced by Axe Sud for France Ô.

Shirley produces her first extended play with society On Time Productions and releases her first sketch show broadcasted since February 2016 on Afrostram.tv, named Shirley Souagnon Show.

Depuis 2016 : radio, school project, return on stage
On May 30, 2016, she becomes member of the Grosses Têtes on RTL with Laurent Ruquier.

On June 4, 2016, she presents the festival Afropunk with her young humourist friend Fary.

She has developped since June 2016 humour sessions on the island La Réunion where she discovered a lot of humourists willing to learn. A school project is in progress.

In July 2016, she participates at the fest Juste Pour Rire de Montréalwith Bref’s team, Kyan Khojandi, Yacine Belhousse, Navo, Bérengère Krief.

Since September 2016, she is on a third roadshow named Monsieur Shirley.

Starting from the October 5, 2019, is opened the Barbes Comedy Club, her first comedy club and the first to be opened by a female humourist. The Barbes Comedy Club opens everyday at 8pm from Monday to Sunday. A lot of humourist produced themself there like Bun Hay Mean, Adrien Arnoux, Doully, Tania Dutel, Baptiste Lecaplain, Kyan Khojandi, Nick Mukoko, Paul Mirabel, Seb Mellia, Wary Nichen and some others. Since 2016, she also particapes a few times at the Montreux Comedy Festival.

Commitments
On November 29, 2010, she animates a solidary auction at the great soldary evening AfriCAN.

Shirley Souagnon lent her image for a campaign against HIV organised by Gayvox-Inpes in November 2011.

She is the AMREF’s ambassador (first african public health NGO).

In 2018, she participates at a collectiv work Noire n’est pas mon métier.

She is a part of the LGBTQI+ community for which she is proud to show it on stage.

Radio career

 * 2010 : columnist Mouv'
 * 2011-2014 : columnist in the weekly show Samedi Roumanoff on Europe 1
 * Since 2016 : member of the Grosses Têtes on RTL

Chronology

 * 2009 : Pliés en 4 presented by Cyril Hanouna on France 4
 * 2010 - 2012 : On n'demande qu'à en rire presented by Laurent Ruquier on France 2
 * 2012 : Jamel Comedy Club presented by Jamel Debbouze on Canal+
 * 2012 : Bref from Kyan Khojandi (episode 82)
 * 2012 : Fidèles au poste & nbsp;  ! presented by Bruno Guillon on France 4
 * 2013 : Et ça vous amuse ?, on RTL9
 * 2014 : Engrenages (season 5) on Canal+
 * 2015 : Mieux vaut en rire on France Ô
 * 2015 : Cut & nbsp;  ! on France Ô
 * 2016 : FREE! the one woman funky show on France Ô
 * 2016 : Shirley Souagnon Show on Afrostream.tv
 * 2019 : Montreux Comedy Festival on Comédie+ 

List of the sketchs written for On n'demande qu'à en rire
On October 1, 2010, the five humourist who have obtein at least 80 points over 100 (Shirley Souagnon, Alain Doucet, Kev Adams, Olivier de Benoist et Les Lascars Gays) had the occasion to play a part of their during a special show.

Her personnal record is 96/100, which she obteined on her thirteenth passage with the subject Release of the pon movie DXK.

Performances

 * 2008-2012 : Sketch Up ! at Le Bout theater and then at Théâtre de Dix Heures in Paris.
 * 2014 : Free, The One Woman Funky Show at Sentier des Halles in Paris.

Publication

 * « En rire », in

Distinctions

 * 2009 : La Route du Rire Volkswagen
 * 2010 : Prix Jeune Talent de l'année 2010 (humour awards)