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 MoroccanJewish and AlgerianJewish 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 eg 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 JeanMichel Jarre castingpopstars 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 alltime 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 CDsingle and Michaël Youn under the name of Alphonse Brown had another hit This time he even reached 1 in Swiss charts Youn had a comedytour called Pluskapoil in 200304 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 MTVs 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 soso 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 CCBYSA 30