Movie #: Title:   Year: 1960         IMDB mediatype
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Conscient d’être devenu un modèle pour les jeunes, Deschamps, qui fêtera ses 70 ans le 31 juillet 2006, accepte désormais de rééditer ses «classiques». Un premier coffret de trois DVD retraçant sa carrière prolifique a été lancé en novembre 2004. Portant sur la période 1960-1970, ces 16 heures d’enregistrements de spectacles, de spectacles télévisés, de matériel d’archives et d’interviews lui ont valu le prix du DVD de l’année dans la catégorie «humour», au Gala Les Olivier de février dernier.  

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Beginnings
Yvon Deschamps was born on 31 July 1935 in Montreal 's working-class Saint-Henri district. He left school in 1951, after Grade 11, and in 1953 found work in the record library at Radio-Canada 's new television service. It was at Radio-Canada that Deschamps discovered the performing arts; after attending a boulevard theatre piece starring Georges Groulx and Denise Pelletier , he added a taste for the theatre, and enrolled in acting classes with François Rozet and Paul Buissonneau . He took the stage for the first time in 1957 at the Théâtre universitaire canadien, playing Pylade in a production of Jean Racine .
In 1959 , Deschamps was part of La Roulotte , Paul Buissonneau's travelling children's theatre. The following year he married Mireille Lachance (the two would divorce in 1967 ). In 1961 he became friends with Claude Léveillée , becoming his drummer and accordeon player. In 1963 he formed a company with Léveillée and several other artists at Buissonneau's Théâtre de Quat'Sous In 1964 he played his first film role in Jean-Claude Lord 's Délivrez-vous du mal.
That same year Deschamps left his short career as a musician behind and opened Le Fournil, a restaurant in Old Montreal, followed by Saint-Amable in 1966 . Both would end up bankrupt a few years later, but until they did Deschamps hosted his Boîte à Clémence , a boîte à chanson hosted by Clémence Desrochers , participating in the Le monde sont drôles (People are Funny) and Sois toi-même(Be Yourself) shows which opened there in 1967 . The latter played a special role in his career, because that is where the Yvon Deschamps "character" and his "good boss" role appeared for the first time.
Following the success of Osstidcho, Yvon Deschamps' career rocketed. In 1969 he presented L'argent (Money) as the opening act for singer Marie Laforêt 's tour, then Le bonheur (Happiness) at the Théâtre du Canada; these two monologues would become his second album. Deschamps put on his first solo show at the Patriot, where he would go on to appear some 310 times.
In 1970 Deschamps released his third album, Le p'tit Jésus/Le fœtus (Baby Jesus/The Foetus) and appeared more than 240 times at the Place des Arts 's Théâtre Maisonneuve , where he launched monologues like Dans ma cour (In My Yard) and Cable TV. The following year another 180 performances were held, including five consecutive weeks sold out.