- This Thursday at 9:05 pm, and the following Thursday at the same time, M6 will broadcast "Morning Night", the new show by Michaël Youn.
- Part of the former band "Morning Live" is back in service for this comedy show.
- "20 Minutes" saw a 40-minute preview of the first broadcast.
Let's talk about a time that people under 20 cannot know. Between 2000 and 2003, thousands of French women had the habit of starting their day by swallowing their bowl of coffee or cereals while having fun in front of Morning Live . Broadcast from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on M6, this morning show claimed to be the one that "wakes up your neighbors", in reference to the merry mess that reigned there, conducive to sound saturation.
The pink toilet paper decor was tiny and the show seemed tinkered with the means at hand, which gave it all its charm. There were clips, news flashes but above all schoolboy happenings during which Michaël Youn regularly found his buttocks in the air and / or screaming in a megaphone. The new millennium was just beginning, regressive humor was popular - around the same time, Jackass's self-proclaimed morons were causing a stir on MTV with their ill-bred challenges and their neutral stunts.
Twenty years have passed and Michaël Youn returns this Thursday at 9:05 p.m., still on M6, at the controls of the Morning Night . “This is not a nostalgic show, nor a best-of. It's just us, twenty years later, ”says the host. We, that is to say he and two of his acolytes of the time, who are still his friends, Benjamin Morgaine and Vincent Desagnat. The three of them "wanted to meet up to do stupid things". But in an era often described as tense, where it is fashionable to think "that we can no longer laugh at anything", does the essence of Morning Live still have its place on the small screen? "We kept the same spirit," says Michaël Youn before taking the example of a tapeworm ad, as a "slimming remedy".
“There will be torrents of mud on Twitter and we will be delighted. "
He expects certain passages to be strangled on social networks. "We know that the slightest cross valve is over-commented," he noted when presenting the program to the media last month. So we got together with the team from the start and decided ... to ignore it. (…) It is sure that the next day there will be torrents of mud on Twitter, and we will be delighted. "
Looking at a 40-minute preview of the first issue that 20 Minutes was able to preview, the torrent shouldn't be that rough. We cringe a bit during a comparison between M6 and "a lousy girl", but the valve is promptly whistled by the guests of the first issue - Audrey Fleurot, Claudia Tagbo and Inès Reg. And overall, the spirit is good-natured and caring.
Mickaël Youn will not show off his posterior to the camera. "The buttocks, twenty years ago, it was fine, because I was better gaule", he justifies before reassuring on the dose of triviality that will be respected. "There's still a rascal. We invented the Trottitouf, the scooter that allows you to do your needs by going to his workplace, ”warns the facilitator.
"We don't want to be prisoners of social networks and what is said there because for each valve, each gag, there will be fifty people who will say that they do not like, that it is disrespect, he adds to 20 Minutes . We decided to ignore negative comments, but rather positive ones, to be in the making, in the creation, in the proposal, to do and not to be afraid of displeasing. "
"I don't think we have forbidden much"
Reckless, but not suicide bombers either. The Morning Night team claims to be "responsible". "We stopped playing with real food", illustrates Vincent Desagnat. This is not so anecdotal as that, all the more when one has in mind the commitment of Michaël Youn within Les Enfoirés. M6 gave carte blanche to the small band but they did not take the opportunity to do anything. "I do not think we have forbidden much," says Michaël Youn. And to confide in 20 Minutes that its rule is "not to hurt a particular person or a community. "
Would he have given in to the notion of "good thinking" dear to the Conservatives? “I don't feel like we were politically incorrect during the Morning Live era. We were sassy perhaps, insolent at times. We have always stayed very far from community and political humor, we are laughing at us first ”, he argued during the press conference. It is in this area that Morning Night is particularly successful. See Mickaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine messing around in improbable disguises, giving the impression that we surprise them in a delirium with friends, remains irresistible. This is the case in the sequence of "Attic Tubes", conceptualized in Morning Live , and consisting of reproducing in real time, in front of a green background a clip from the 1980s.
A "mix of Saturday Night Live and Intervilles "
Apart from these "madeleines of Proust", the Morning Night will have little in common with the cult show of the 2000s. Mickaël Youn wanted a comedy show, a "mixture of Saturday Night Live and of Intervilles ". Time has passed and yesterday's improviser seems to have put on the costume of an American entertainment pro.
The exercise involves a certain framework, to follow a driver. “It's not a freestyle show, because it's the first part of the evening and we want a great setting. I want it to be chic, adds the host. You can't do pure Morning Live in prime time. You have to have a presentation that doesn't hurt your head, you can't have a camera that moves around all the time. "No sooner has he said that he warns that the second program, broadcast next Thursday," leaves a little lollipop. "
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Michaël Youn confides without tongue in cheek at "20 Minutes"
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Michaël Youn awarded at the Alpe d'Huez Festival
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The comments quoted in this article were collected in February during the presentation of the program to the press and last week, during a face-to-face interview with Michaël Youn, that is to say before that the situation related to the Covid-19 coronavirus in France is worsening.
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