The actor, humorist and director Michaël Youn made the beautiful mornings of M6 between 2000 and 2002 with “Le Morning Live” and he returns Thursday with a third issue of “Morning Night”, always accompanied by his megaphone and his two friends, Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine.
“Morning Night” will be back on M6 Thursday November 2 at 9:10 p.m. Once again, between video clips, parodies or false advertisements, two teams of three candidates will compete, the Fifi gang (Philippe Lacheau, Elodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali) facing the trio Ahmed Sylla, Kev Adams and Virginie Hocq, before we only find them in the second part of the evening in a “Late night show” to talk about their respective news.
franceinfo: Why did you wait three years since the last “Morning Night” broadcast?
Michaël Youn: There was a pretty crazy thing called the pandemic. I refused to do humor without an audience or with a masked audience. So I left for the cinema and then there was time to come back because it’s a show that requires a lot of work. It’s more than six months of work with a lot of fiction to shoot, video clips. There’s a lot of writing and it’s a highly produced show. We needed time and we found him to return happily on Thursday evening.
It’s a show that does some good in today’s anxiety-provoking climate. Have you thought about that too?
We shot it three weeks ago, the climate was not yet completely anxiety-inducing. He has since become one. But what is certain is that I think we need to get together and experience pleasant sensations together.
“We need, at this moment, more unity than dissension.”
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Laugh together and tell yourself that there are other people who, at home, in Tourcoing, in Béziers or elsewhere, laugh at the same time as you at the same joke.
We had to find the DNA, what you call the spirit of stupidity. Has it changed since 2001?
Since the management of M6 has not changed, we are still the same bad kids. Nicolas de Tavernost is still there. With my friends Vincent and Benjamin, we are friends and we see each other every week, and obviously getting together and making jokes together on TV… What we missed the most was annoying the management of M6. And we really love that.
Are you the only one for 20 or 30 years to make fun of “Love is in the meadow”, for example?
Stéphane Plaza annoys them quite a bit, but for other reasons, but it seems we can’t talk about it…
Do you ask them for their opinion when you make a parody of “Love is in the Meadow”?
We don’t try to do shocking things to be shocking. We’re just trying to do funny things.
I am not at all an unpinned, uncontrollable grenade. We have perspective, we have a real professional conscience.
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And the people we make fun of the most in general are us and M6. And then we ask the chain to validate.
Why isn’t the show live? This is what made “Morning Live” so special and what made Cyril Hanouna work…
It’s a show that is highly produced and we could do it live, but we would need a lot more rehearsal time. It’s just a matter of preparation and then going live simply costs more.
As you are broadcasting the show in twos, the first in 2020 and 2021, when will the rest be?
There will be a second show before the end of the year, rather at Christmas.
Finally, do you become a bit of the head of M6?
No, because I don’t talk about real estate or food, so I can’t be a dick at all.