Comedian Bun Hay Mean, who rose to fame at the Jamel Comedy Club, dies at 43 after falling from a building in Paris

Comedian Bun Hay Mean, who rose to fame in the Jamel Comedy Club in 2014, was found dead early this Thursday, July 10, in the ^17th arrondissement of Paris, reports Le Parisien. The 43-year-old died after falling eight stories to his death . The exact circumstances remain unknown. Nicknamed "Funny Chinese," he had been going through difficult times for several years and had recently been hospitalized in Réunion, the daily newspaper noted.

BSPP firefighters are on the scene, along with a police crew. An investigation has also been opened, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. " It is with infinite sadness that we must announce the tragic death of our friend, our immense artist, Bun Hay Mean ," his producer, Philippe Delmas, announced in a statement. He added that he allegedly fell " while trying to retrieve his phone, which had fallen into the gutter of his balcony ."

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Bun Hay Mean was scheduled to perform tomorrow night at the Olympia in Montreal as part of his Kill Bun tour, whose title is inspired by the Quentin Tarantino film. In this show, he opened up about his mental health and his recovery, always with a touch of dark humor. "I talk about mental health. It's a collection of new sketches and what happened to me last summer. I had a low point. It's a kind of therapy, in the end, you have to laugh about it to move on," he revealed in January to Nice-Matin . He was then scheduled to perform in France from October, including in Lille, Avignon, Besançon, Nice and Bordeaux.

Born in 1981 to a Chinese mother and a Cambodian father in Lormont, Gironde, he began writing sketches and performing stand-up comedy as a teenager. After studying computer science, he decided to return to his first passion: comedy. He began performing in Parisian cafés and restaurants before being spotted by Alain Degois, founder of the Déclic Théâtre theater company, where he met Jamel Debbouze. The latter invited him to join the seventh season of the Jamel Comedy Club. He took advantage of this notoriety to put on his first show, entitled Chinois Marrant dans la légende de Bun Hay Mean. Following these shows, he adopted the nickname "Chinois Marrant," which would stick to him. At the same time, he launched into the seventh art and appeared in Éric Judor's film, Problemos, in the comedy Rattrapage by Tristan Séguéla and in the latest installment of Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom by Guillaume Canet in which he plays Deng Tsin Qin, a felonious prince of China. " I really liked our meeting and who you were! Rest in peace my friend! How sad," the director praised in an Instagram story.