Michaël Youn
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. ...
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Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
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2020 · François
Divorce Club
2020 · Titi, Director
Le Grand Show des humoristes
2020 · Self
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2020 · Self
Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020
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2020 · Tony
Meet the Malawas
2019 · Kévin Queffelec, Producer, Writer
Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019
No Filter
2019 · Fabrice
Watch Me Burn
2018 · Patrick Demarescau
Deux gouttes d'eau
2018 · Sam Barbieri
Christ(Off)
2018 · Chris
Un Incroyable Show
2018
Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018
Brillantissime
2018 · Ben
Enfoirés Kids
2017
Carbone
2017 · Laurent Melki
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
Sahara
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Mon frère bien-aimé
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Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
Family Business
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2014
Le Débarquement 2
2013 · Various Characters
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Le Débarquement
2013
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2012 · Martin Arendt
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2012 · Jacky Bonnot
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Fatal
2010 · Fatal Bazooka, Director, Writer
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2008 · Christelle Bazooka
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2008 · Le Livreur de Pizza
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2007
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Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
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District Z
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Kemps
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Mask Singer
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Le Débarquement
2013
Vendredi, tout est permis
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It's Only TV
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C à vous
2009 · Self, Self - Guest
Panique dans l'oreillette
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Moot-Moot
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Off Prime
2007
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Muppets TV
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On n'est pas couché
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2004 · Self
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Caméra Café
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Star Academy
2001 · Self
The Apartment
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Morning live
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NRJ Music Awards
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Vivement dimanche
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