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. ... Source: Article "Michaël Youn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: 02 December 1973
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Les Enfoirés 2026 - La Ballade des Enfoirés
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Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
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Le gala du Do You Comedy de Saint-Tropez
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Certains l'aiment chauve
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Flashback
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Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
The Gardener
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The World Upside Down
Stanislas
Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
Superpapa
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BDE
Bob
Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
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Quelle époque !
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Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans
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Visual Suspect
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They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Jacques-André
Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir
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Celebrity Hunted - France - Manhunt
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Runaway
Stéphane
A French Case
Jean-Michel Bezzina
Samedi Sébastien
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Stolen Childhood
Romain
Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
District Z
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Connectés
François
Divorce Club
Titi
Le Grand Show des humoristes
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Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club
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Le Morning Night
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Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
Lucky
Tony
L'Émission de McFly & Carlito
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Meet the Malawas
Kévin Queffelec
Kemps
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Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
Mask Singer
Enquêteur
No Filter
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Watch Me Burn
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Deux gouttes d'eau
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Christ(Off)
Chris
Un Incroyable Show
Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
Les Bracelets rouges
Gilbert
Brillantissime
Ben
Enfoirés Kids
Carbone
Laurent Melki
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
Sahara
Poisson des Sables (voice)
Quotidien
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Mon frère bien-aimé
Mathias Leroy
À l'état sauvage
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The Canterville Ghost
Gwilherm
Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
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Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Family Business
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Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
Le Débarquement 2
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013
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Vive la France
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Le Débarquement
Le Débarquement
The Crossing
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Le Chef
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Vendredi, tout est permis
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Wok the Kasbah
Policier 2
Fatal
Fatal Bazooka
It's Only TV
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Paris Express
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Du Morning Live à Fatal, le meilleur de Michaël Youn
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Lucky Luke
Billy The Kid
C à vous
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C à vous
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Florence Foresti & Friends
Christelle Bazooka
Panique dans l'oreillette
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Can You Keep a Secret?
Le Livreur de Pizza
N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels
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Le Pire du Morning Live 2
Moot-Moot
Harchibald (voice)
Héros
Pierre Forêt / Pi
Off Prime
Le Pire du Morning Live
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Salut les Terriens !
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Muppets TV
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On n'est pas couché
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Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Oliver Newton-John
Incontrôlable
Georges Pal
Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
Various characters
Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
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Iznogoud
Iznogoud
One Stays, the Other Leaves
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The Box
Le réparateur
Around the World in 80 Days
Art Gallery Manager
La chanson de l'année
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La chanson de l'année
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The 11 Commandments
Mike
Les 11 commandements inédits
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The Car Keys
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Samedi soir en direct
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La Méthode Cauet
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Chouchou
Le transformiste brésilien
The Dope
Alphonse Brown
Caméra Café
Un postulant
Star Academy
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The Apartment
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Philosophale
Morning live
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NRJ Music Awards
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Vivement dimanche
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Victoires de la musique
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Bazooka
Fatal Bazooka
Rahan
Le Jardinier 2 – l’Élysée ne répond plus
Serge Shuster