Thomas Ngijol

Thomas Ngijol (born October 30, 1978 in Paris) is a French comedian, actor, and director. A stand-up specialist, he became known to the general public through his work with the Jamel Comedy Club. The son of Gilbert Ngijol, a Cameroonian sociologist, and Crescence Ngijol, a nurse, he was born in Paris and grew up in Maisons-Alfort, in the Val-de-Marne region of Paris. In the 2000s, he worked as a facilitator at the Aimé et Eugénie Cotton primary school in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, in the Val-de-Marne region. He then met Dieudonné while participating in the café-théâtre classes given at the Théâtre de la Main d'Or in Paris. He was noticed at the Juste pour rire festival in Nantes with a special tribute to Richard Pryor. He then performed for a while at the Moloko in Paris. He wrote a one-man show called Bienvenue, which he performed in small Parisian venues before being noticed by Kader Aoun. The latter opened the doors of the Jamel Comedy Club for him. He will be featured in a comedy produced and directed by Alex Alabaz of the Kourtrajmé collective, Les Abyssiens. He also became known on television on Canal+, in the show Le Grand Journal, with a daily column for two seasons (2006-2008). His most famous sketches are Un Superman noir!, Les jeux olympiques d'hiver?, Le Bac and Mon retour du Cameroun!. In September 2008, he joined Stéphane Bern's show Le Fou du roi, on France Inter. In 2010, during the Football World Cup, he presented the show Ils se foot du monde, with Darren Tulett, on the Comédie! channel. In October 2010, he directed his first film with his colleague and accomplice Fabrice Éboué, entitled Case départ, a popular comedy about slavery, a theme rarely treated in this way in French cinema, set in the West Indies. He is also one of the main actors and the screenwriter. This film, a theatrical success, was "a pleasant surprise" according to the French media. At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, he was named patron of the Youth Prize. In February 2014, the comedy Le Crocodile du Botswanga was released in theaters, in which he played one of the main roles with Fabrice Éboué, who directed the film; it was again a success. In July 2014, he directed, wrote the screenplay for, and starred in his own film, the comedy FastLife. The name of the main character, Ebagué, is a reference to his name in Cameroon. His partner, actress Karole Rocher, gave birth to a daughter, Angelina, in May 2014, just before the film's release.

Works

Bref

A lost thirty-something shares his struggles, from failed relationships to boring jobs and pointless nights out. Stuck in his routine at first, he slowly evolves, searching for meaning in his life. In short, he's just trying to live.

Release Date2011-08-29

Charactersd Thomas Ngijol

Episode Count1

Vote Count151

Empathie

Suzanne, a former criminologist turned psychiatrist, starts a new job at the Mont-Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she meets Mortimer, an intriguing intervention officer with whom she strikes up a friendship, and fascinating patients.

Release Date2025-04-10

Charactersd Mortimer Vallant

Episode Count10

Vote Count7

Case départ

Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.

Release Date2011-07-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Joël / Gédéon

Vote Count514

Serial Driver

Pauline has her own way of doing road safety: as a trainer in a point recovery center during the day, she becomes a serial killer of drivers at night.

Release Date2023-03-29

Charactersd Dorian

Vote Count136

Second Chance

Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.

Release Date2011-01-05

Charactersd Vincent

Vote Count263

Le Crocodile du Botswanga

Leslie Konda young talented French footballer spotted in his teens by Didier , a small-scale agent who was able to take under his wing , has signed its first contract striker in a large Spanish club . At the same time, his growing reputation and its origins Botswanga , small, poor state of Central Africa, earned him an invitation by the President of the Republic in person Babimbi Bobo , a football enthusiast, freshly installed in power after a coup military state. Leslie therefore went for the first time in the country of his ancestors accompanied by Didier to be decorated by the President Bobo which quickly turns out, despite his great humanist discourse be a megalomaniac and paranoid dictator under the bad influence of his wife .dropoff window Hardly have they landed Bobo enters into a sordid deal with Didier put pressure on his player so that it plays for the national team : Crocodiles of Botswanga ...

Release Date2014-02-19

Charactersd Bobo

Vote Count352

The Legend of Black Snake

After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.

Release Date2019-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Clotaire Sangala

Vote Count127

Fastlife

Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the Fastlife...

Release Date2014-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Franklin Ebagé

Vote Count142

Untamable

In Yaounde, Police Chief Billong is investigating the murder of a police officer. In the streets and at home, he struggles to maintain order. A man of principle and tradition, he is reaching breaking point.

Release Date2025-06-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Billong

Vote Count14

Ugly Melanie

This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice.

Release Date2008-11-12

Charactersd Mamadou

Vote Count268

Selon Thomas - Deuxième vague

Accompanied by Vladimir Cauchemar, Thomas will be joined by many guests: Camille Chamoux, Teddy Riner, Kad Merad, Matthieu Longatte, Marie Portolano, Roman Frayssinet, Samir Guesmi, Jean Imbert, Hafid Benamar, Mister V, Dominique Armand, Redouane?

Release Date2021-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Les Cobayes

A couple since high school, Charlotte and Adam have just had their first child. But they're not happy, and habits are gradually replacing enthusiasm, to the point of driving them apart... Hoping to recapture the momentum of their early days, they decide to become guinea pigs in a revolutionary treatment designed to strengthen their bond and desire.

Release Date2020-08-29

Charactersd Adam

Vote Count9

Fratè

Following the burial of his father, in his village right in the middle of the Corsican countryside , Dumè discovered the existence of a brother, Lucien, with whom he will have to share the inheritance left by the patriarch... On the condition of being able to live together for a month in the family home. Under the backdrop of cultural legitimacy and of real estate inheritance a balance of power will be established between Lucien, the blood son, and Dumè, the adopted son.

Release Date2022-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Dumè

Vote Count19

Bullit & Riper

Release Date2020-12-26

Charactersd Toni Marquez

Paname Flash 80

It is a movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Allah is Not Obliged

When ten-year-old Birahima’s mother dies, he leaves his native village in Guinea, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima becomes a child-soldier. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity.

Release Date2025-06-09

Charactersd (voice)

Thomas Ngijol - À block!

Release Date2010-10-20

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count31

Quotidien

Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.

Release Date2016-09-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Salut les Terriens !

Release Date2006-11-04

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels

Release Date2008-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Hot Ones

Watch Kyan Khojandi interview celebrities as they burn their tastebuds!

Release Date2022-04-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Inside Jamel Comedy Club

Release Date2009-07-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count8

Vote Count7

Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy

Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy

Born over a century ago in the United States, stand-up comedy has conquered the world, spreading via the internet to screens everywhere. By channeling its satirical rage into new territories, it has captured the pulse of society, reflecting contemporary debates. Stand-up, as told by the professionals of the punchline: Blanche Gardin, Haroun, Hannah Gadsby, and many others.

Release Date2024-11-20

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Episode Count1

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary

Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.

Release Date2014-11-04

Charactersd Self

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Release Date2019-02-15

Charactersd Self - Guest

Vote Count37

40

Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.

Release Date2024-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOther

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Michel Denisot n'aime pas les anniversaires

He may not like birthdays, but Michel Denisot celebrates LGJ's 20th, CANAL+'s 40th, and his own 80th!

Release Date2024-11-13

Charactersd Self

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Release Date2023-03-17

Charactersd Self - Guest

Vote Count12

Sixty

60 comedians in 60 minutes, that's what Kyan Khojandi has to offer tonight.

Release Date2019-05-06

Charactersd Self - Comedian

Vote Count12

Le Jamel Comedy Club envahit le Casino de Paris

Release Date2007-11-22

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Pour 1€ j'écoute vos problèmes

Pour 1€ j'écoute vos problèmes

Release Date2023-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Un bon moment

Kyan Khojandi and Bruno Muschio (Navo) host different guests each week to spend A Good Time.

Release Date2020-01-12

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Broute.

Release Date2019-09-03

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Thomas Ngijol : L'Œil du tigre

Release Date2023-10-18

Vote Count11

Thomas Ngijol - 2

Release Date2015-11-10

Vote Count43

Sans pudeur ni morale

In this world of media, where you can film someone's private life or the worst acts of violence, 'No Pain No Shame' breaks through the boundaries between reporting and cinema. Issa, a young French man originating from Africa, just got out of prison. His father decided to send him back to Ivory Coast in order to drive him away from bad company. To immortalize his last 24 hours in his suburbs, Issa decides to film everything with his video camera. Where will the exhilaration and euphoria of this departure lead this group of friends?

Release Date2011-06-01

Vote Count1

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