Michaël Youn

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.

Known For

Sam

Coursier

Billy The Kid

Lucky Luke

Georges Pal

Incontrôlable

Le Livreur de Pizza

Tu peux garder un secret ?

Christophe Perrot

Superpapa

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

Fatal Bazooka

Fatal

Mike

Les 11 commandements

Iznogoud

Iznogoud

Le transformiste brésilien

Chouchou

Alphonse Brown

La Beuze

Philosophale

Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

Les Clefs de bagnole

Le Débarquement

Jacky Bonnot

Comme un chef

Michaël Youn

L'un reste, l'autre part

Pierre Forêt / Pi

Héros

Various characters

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

Jacques-André

Ils s'aiment… enfin presque !

Bob

BDE

Self

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013

Feruz

Vive la France

Le réparateur

Le Carton

Various Characters

Le Débarquement 2

Paul

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

Self

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états

Max Perez

L'esprit de famille

Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !

Stanislas

C'est le monde à l'envers !

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés

Oliver Newton-John

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

Le Pire du Morning Live 2

Mike

Les 11 commandements inédits

Serge Shuster

Le Jardinier

Art Gallery Manager

Around the World in 80 Days

Gwilherm

Le Fantôme de Canterville

Christelle Bazooka

Florence Foresti & Friends

Fatal Bazooka

Bazooka

Joseph

Certains l'aiment chauve

Laurent Melki

Carbone

Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés

Poisson des Sables (voice)

Sahara

Policier 2

De l'huile sur le feu

Ben

Brillantissime

Michaël Youn

Le Pire du Morning Live

Mathias Leroy

Mon frère bien-aimé

Self

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015

Chris

Christ(Off)

Patrick Demarescau

Le jour où j'ai brûlé mon coeur

Sam Barbieri

Deux gouttes d'eau

Fabrice

Chamboultout

Self

Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs

Enfoirés Kids

Kévin Queffelec

Rendez-vous chez les Malawas

Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu

Tony

Lucky

Titi

Divorce Club

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !

Self

Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club

Self

Le grand show des humoristes

Rahan

François

Connectés

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous

Martin Arendt

La Traversée

Romain

M'abandonne pas

Self (archive footage)

Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés

Serge Shuster

Le Jardinier 2 – l’Élysée ne répond plus

Self

Le gala du Do You Comedy de Saint-Tropez

Self

Du Morning Live à Fatal, le meilleur de Michaël Youn

Un Incroyable Show

Self

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil