Fabien Olicard

La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France

Fabien Olicard, born November 22, 1982, in La Rochelle, is a French mentalist, humorist and web videographer. Known for his memorization techniques and his humor, he has been performing in shows since 2011. Videographer on YouTube, he has performed in major French venues such as the Zénith de Paris and the Olympia. He has written several books on psychology, the brain and memory.

Fabien Olicard is the third child of Marcel Olicard and Cathy Picoron. He spent his childhood in Marsilly. At 7 or 8 years old, an Q.I. test reveals to him that he has a eidetic memory (almost photographic). It was also at this age that he began to become passionate about illusionism after buying the book Cours Magica by Robert Veno in a garage sale.

After having repeated his second, Fabien Olicard will go to the science baccalaureate which he will not obtain and will stop his studies. He devoted himself to illusionism and specialized, in the mid-2000s, in mentalism. Multiplying training, he exercises his memory as a waiter in a restaurant. In 2007, he presented himself at the Golden Cannes and won the 1st prize in the category close-up. Spotted by a producer, he works on the humor festival of Saint-Martin.

Until 2011, he performed in his native region, his shows remained confidential. The Comédie des 3 Bornes allows him to perform in Paris. He stayed there for two years before playing his show every Tuesday at the Théâtre du Point-Virgule then at the Grand Point-Virgule. His show is a series of demonstrations of mentalism, neurosciences and nonverbal communication techniques, such as cold reading, prosody, graphology and synergology. He enjoyed success there, helped by the television broadcast in France of the American series Mentalist which popularized "mental magic".

New content creator he launches his YouTube channel. Fabien Olicard goes from a few hundred to more than 200,000 subscribers by posting a video daily throughout 2016. It occupies the unoccupied niche of mental prowess and invites us to decode the nonverbal communication on video.

This online success allows him to multiply his media appearances such as in the show C'est que de la télé on C8 or Vivement dimanche dimanche. Columnist for the program Antidote on France 2, he takes part in a special evening broadcast on the channel in September 2021. This is entitled Voyage au cœur de la mémoire. He will also participate in several episodes of the show E=M6 broadcast on M6 and will make several TED talks. In 2018, he created his new show Singularité which he performed at the Olympia in Paris, at the Eiffel Tower theater and at La Seine musicale. Among his tricks, he manages to guess the first name or astrological sign of a stranger, deduce the color of a card from micro-expressions or even have the public memorize the first decimals of pi.

He writes books and publishes board games around magic and mentalism. In 2020, he launched a monthly magazine called Curiouz and a podcast called "L'hippocampe".

On March 15, 2023, he became a member of the show Les Grosses Têtes hosted by Laurent Ruquier.

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