Real name: Jacques Arthur Essebag

Effective period / Period of releases: 1992 - 1999

Arthur (born Jacques Essebag on 10 March 1966 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French presenter, producer and comedian.

After having cancelled his studying law, he began his career as a host on local radio in the Paris region in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he found a certain notoriety by presenting programs on Fun Radio, Europe 1 and Europe 2 (Arthur et les pirates, PlanetArthur and Radio Arthur). He became, from 1991, host of television programs, first on France 2 and TF1 (Les Enfants de la télé, La Fureur).

Meanwhile, he started a theater career with two one-man shows, Arthur en vrai (2005) and I Show (2009) and portraying Peter Brochan in Le Dîner de Cons (2007), alongside Dany Boon.

Since the mid-1990s, he is also an entrepreneur in the audiovisual field. He was, until 2006, vice president of production company France Endemol. Since 2008, he is owner of Ouï FM.