Pierre Brassard

{{Short description|Canadian actor}}

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Pierre Brassard (born April 24, 1966) is a French-Canadian actor, comedian, television personality, and radio broadcaster. He is associated with CKOI-FM in Montreal and known for his phone call hoaxes.

In one publicized incident, Brassard, thinly disguised as a television reporter, encountered former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at the 1993 Montreal Film Festival. After Brassard asked a series of absurd questions, Trudeau ripped off Brassard's fake beard, slapped the prankster in the face, and aimed a kick at his groin.{{cite news|first=Charles|last=Trueheart|title=Letter from Montreal|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 18, 1993|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/10/18/letter-from-montreal/2d75f6a3-b75e-4260-a674-9c30393d2439/|access-date=January 14, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQFWt57Z1w |title=Bleu Poudre |format=YouTube |date=2012-12-05}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2016/07/03/pierre-brassard|title=Pierre Brassard|last=Gaudet|first=Agnès|date=2016-07-03|work=Le Journal de Montréal|access-date=2019-07-18|language=French}}

In 2021 he was a competitor on Chanteurs masqués, the Quebec adaptation of the Masked Singer franchise. He sang Les B.B.'s "Fais attention" in costume as a speckled trout, but was the second person eliminated from the competition.Élizabeth Lepage-Boily, [https://showbizz.net/tele/chanteurs-masques-la-truite-mouchetee-revele-quelle-chanson-elle-aurait-interpretee-par-la-suite "Chanteurs masqués : La truite mouchetée révèle quelle chanson elle aurait interprétée par la suite"]. Showbizz, September 27, 2021.