Michaël Youn

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Michaël Benayoun (born 1973), known professionally as Michaël Youn, is a French actor, singer, comedian and television personality. Youn was born Michaël Benayoun in Suresnes, France, to a family of Hungarian, Italian, Moroccan-Jewish, and Algerian-Jewish descent. After his education as an announcer and theater actor, Youn joined the Paris radio station Skyrock in 1998. There, he made sketches and further entertainment during the morning show. The popularity and success of Michael Youn, at the most important French private broadcast station brought Youn to the attention of French TV executives. In July 2000, he was hired for the new morning show "Morning Live" shown on Métropole 6. With Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine, Youn did the entertainment part of the show. Like their sketches and public events (e.g. foam bath in a Paris fountain, and waking random Parisians up shooting the slogan of the show at them), their parodies were particularly successful. In particular, they parodied the music scene of Jean-Michel Jarre, casting-popstars, the Grand Prix and French rappers. The success of "Morning Live" was mainly due to Youn and his colleagues – when they left the show, it remained on the air for just one more year. After leaving "Morning Live" in 2002, Youn, Desagnat and Morgaine have focused on their music parodies: The three sailors "Piotr", "Olaff" and "Dvorjak" from the Eastern European "Slowakistan", the Bratisla Boys, appeared on the Western music market with their song "Stach Stach". The act became a big success and was number one on the French charts for ten weeks. On a 2004 list of the all-time best selling CDs in France, "Stach Stach" was listed number 30. The success even spread beyond the French border and reached Switzerland, where it was 2nd on the official charts. On 7 July 2002, the project was stopped by its makers. They claimed that the Bratisla Boys had vanished on the Dead Sea without a trace. In 2003, the film "La Beuze", written by Youn and Desagnat, was released. Youn played the character of Alphonse, the "unknown son" of James Brown, who tries to start his own career – by creating a new (fictional) style called "Frunkp" (a mixture of funk and rap). The song "Le Frunkp" was published as a CD-single and Michaël Youn (under the name of Alphonse Brown) had another hit. This time, he even reached #1 in Swiss charts. Youn had a comedy-tour, called Pluskapoil in 2003/04 (its sequel followed in 2005) and has acted in films. New music projects followed: Les Conards (The Imbeciles) with Comme des Connards, a cover version of My Sharona by The Knack, as well as a song for the movie Iznogoud (both were in the French Top 20). He had small roles in rather big films, and was part of Les 11 commandements in 2004 (A French film done in the style of MTV's Jackass, together with Desagnat and Morgaine). In 2005, Youn was Iznogoud in the film version of the comic "Iznogoud" (also known as Isnogud). In 2006, he had the main role in the film comedy Incontrôlable. Those two films were not very successful, critics and viewers finding them only so-so. Both films starred Desagnat and Morgaine, but only in small roles. In 2010, he directed his first movie "Fatal" in which he also stars. ... Source: Article "Michaël Youn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1973-12-02
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  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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5.2

Paris Express

2010-02-24

4.5

Lucky Luke

2009-10-21

4

Incontrôlable

2006-02-08

6.5

Can You Keep a Secret?

2008-05-07

5

Superpapa

2023-11-07

8

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

2014-12-13

6

Fatal

2010-06-16

5.3

The 11 Commandments

2004-02-04

4

Iznogoud

2005-01-19

5.3

Chouchou

2003-03-19

4.7

The Dope

2003-02-05

0

Philosophale

2001-01-01

5.1

The Car Keys

2003-12-10

5.1

Le Débarquement

2013-01-18

6.2

Le Chef

2012-03-07

5.2

One Stays, the Other Leaves

2005-01-12

5.7

Héros

2007-06-20

4.9

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

2005-11-03

5.1

They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!

2022-03-30

4.7

BDE

2023-01-20

6.7

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013

2013-06-20

5.2

Vive la France

2013-02-20

5.7

The Box

2004-10-06

5.5

Le Débarquement 2

2013-12-20

8

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

2022-10-18

5

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états

2022-08-16

5.8

Family Business

2014-12-03

6.9

Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !

2024-03-01

5.6

The World Upside Down

2024-10-16

6.5

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés

2015-03-13

6

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

2006-05-05

6.7

Le Pire du Morning Live 2

2007-10-31

5.7

Les 11 commandements inédits

2004-02-04

6

The Gardener

2025-01-30

5.9

Around the World in 80 Days

2004-06-16

5.5

The Canterville Ghost

2016-04-06

6.3

Florence Foresti & Friends

2008-09-25

0

Bazooka

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Comme un œuf

2025-07-16

6.7

Carbone

2017-11-01

7.5

Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés

2017-03-03

5.9

Sahara

2017-02-01

4.7

Wok the Kasbah

2011-12-13

4.9

Brillantissime

2018-01-17

6.4

Le Pire du Morning Live

2006-11-19

6.8

Mon frère bien-aimé

2016-08-26

7

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015

2015-06-14

5.5

Christ(Off)

2018-07-11

7.3

Watch Me Burn

2018-11-05

6.2

Deux gouttes d'eau

2018-10-19

6.1

No Filter

2019-04-03

0

Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs

2015-07-17

0

Enfoirés Kids

2017-12-01

4.5

Meet the Malawas

2019-12-25

7.5

Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu

2019-11-30

4.7

Lucky

2020-02-26

5.8

Divorce Club

2020-07-14

7.4

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés

2020-03-06

7.2

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés

2016-03-11

7.8

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés

2014-03-14

7.1

Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !

2018-03-09

5.7

Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club

2020-03-19

0

Le grand show des humoristes

2020-06-18

0

Rahan

4.6

Connectés

2020-11-12

7

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous

2021-03-05

0

Muppets TV

2006-10-29

6.5

The Crossing

2012-10-31

7.2

M'abandonne pas

2021-04-01

0

Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir

2022-02-22

0

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés

2025-03-07

6

C à vous

2009-09-07

3.5

Salut les Terriens !

2006-11-04

5.7

A French Case

2021-09-20

6.3

Runaway

2021-09-23

9

Samedi Sébastien

2021-04-17

5

Quelle époque !

2022-09-24

2

Victoires de la musique

1985-11-23

6.5

Le Morning Night

2020-03-19

4.5

District Z

2020-12-11

9

Morning live

2000-07-03

6.8

Caméra Café

2001-10-29

0

L'Émission de McFly & Carlito

2020-02-25

8

À l'état sauvage

2016-06-28

0

Le Débarquement

2013-01-18

8.2

Les Bracelets rouges

2018-02-05

0

Kem's

2019-12-23

0

Flashback

10

Moot-Moot

2007-10-21

9

La chanson de l'année

2004-06-05

9

La chanson de l'année

2004-06-05

10

Samedi soir en direct

2003-09-13

6.4

Panique dans l'oreillette

2008-09-06

6.4

Star Academy

2001-10-20

7.5

N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels

2008-01-01

3.2

Vivement dimanche

1998-09-20

2.9

It's Only TV

2010-04-01

3

NRJ Music Awards

2000-01-22

6.2

Quotidien

2016-09-12

5.5

Off Prime

2007-05-12

0

Visual Suspect

2022-06-17

6

C à vous

2009-09-07

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