Michaël Youn

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Movies

Born: December 2, 1973
From: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography

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.

Works

79 films

Around the World in 80 Days

20046.0

The Gardener

20256.1

Meet the Malawas

20194.4

Le Chef

20126.2

Divorce Club

20205.7

Le Débarquement 2

20135.5

Lucky Luke

20094.5

Les 11 commandements inédits

20045.8

BDE

20234.6

Sahara

20176.0

Chouchou

20035.3

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

20257.0

Family Business

20145.8

No Filter

20196.1

Superpapa

20235.0

Les Enfoirés 2026 - La Ballade des Enfoirés

20268.0

Enfoirés Kids

2017

Brillantissime

20184.8

Vive la France

20135.2

Le Pire du Morning Live 2

20076.7

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états

20225.0

Paris Express

20105.1

Incontrôlable

20064.0

Connectés

20204.5

Le Débarquement

20135.1

Héros

20075.4

Certains l'aiment chauve

20254.2

Philosophale

20016.5

My Coluche

20268.0

Lucky

20204.7

Carbone

20176.7

Un Incroyable Show

2018

Fatal

20106.0

The Car Keys

20035.2

The 11 Commandments

20045.3

Iznogoud

20054.0

Mon frère bien-aimé

20166.8

Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !

20187.1

They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!

20225.1

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

20148.0

The Dope

20034.7

Stolen Childhood

20217.6

The Canterville Ghost

20165.5

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés

20257.5

The World Upside Down

20245.3

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous

20217.6

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans

20225.8

Watch Me Burn

20187.2

Rahan

2026

Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés

20177.5

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

20055.3

Wok the Kasbah

20114.8

One Stays, the Other Leaves

20055.2

Can You Keep a Secret?

20086.5

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés

20156.5

Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !

20247.3

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés

20167.2

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés

20207.7

Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu

20197.5

Le Pire du Morning Live

20066.4

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

2005

Florence Foresti & Friends

20086.0

Le Grand Show des humoristes

2020

The Crossing

20126.5

Christ(Off)

20185.5

The Box

20045.7

Bazooka

2026

Deux gouttes d'eau

20186.2

Du Morning Live à Fatal, le meilleur de Michaël Youn

2010

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés

20147.8

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

20066.0

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

20227.4

Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club

20205.7

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013

20136.9

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015

20157.0

Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs

2015

Le gala du Do You Comedy de Saint-Tropez

20256.0

Le Jardinier 2 – l’Élysée ne répond plus

2026

Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir

2022