Wahid Bouzidi

Biography

Wahid Bouzidi (Arabic: وحيد بوزيدي), born July 9, 1978 in Villepinte (France) and died August 20, 2023 in Marrakech (Morocco), is a Franco-Algerian comedian and actor. From 2006 to 2008, he was a member of the Jamel Comedy Club before launching his own one-man show.

The youngest of ten children, Wahid Bouzidi grew up in Bobigny. He lost his mother then his father two months apart when he was only 15 years old. Subsequently, he lived in Noisy-le-Sec with his older brother Ahmed who became his legal guardian. The sudden loss of his parents plunges Wahid Bouzidi into a period of silence. It was within a Gagny theater troupe, named Les Guez Guez, that he found an outlet for his grief and reveal...