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McFly and Carlito

David Coscas and Raphaël Carlier, better known under their respective pseudonyms Mcfly and Carlito, are two French video makers and humorists. Revealed to the general public with the YouTube Golden Mustache channel, they have, as of 2016, acquired greater notoriety thanks to their personal Youtube channel.

Biography

Meeting and beginning

David Coscas, known as Mcfly, was born on July 7, 1986 in Gennevilliers. He spent his childhood in Bois-Colombes.

Raphaël Carlier, known as Carlito, was born on August 30, 1986. He is the son of columnist Guy Carlier and the brother of writer Stéphane Carlier. When his parents split up, he lived one week in Bois-Colombes with his mother and the other in Argenteuil with his father.

The two members of the duo met at school, at the Lycée Albert Camus in Bois-Colombes, when they were not in the same class. David is a science major while Raphael is a literary major. After obtaining their baccalaureates (French equivalent of A levels), they decided to work in the media. Raphaël Carlier passes the entrance exam to the ESEC.

At seventeen, in 2003, they got to host a show on the radio Mouv' (La Metal Academy or La Metal Ac') under the pseudonyms Mcfly and O'Connell.

Raphaël Carlier is married to Erika Fleury. The latter is one of the members of the musical group Whatfor, which was active between 2002 and 2003. They have two sons.

David Coscas is married to Tiffany and have two children.

The Fat Show

In 2013, they created a television show called Le Fat Show, which is broadcasted on L'Enorme. They also published it on their YouTube channel, which was then named after the show.

Le Fat Show has three seasons, the first of which had 24 episodes, the second 20 episodes and the third only 4 episodes.

In this show, the two friends receive one or more guests and interview them. They also produce various sketches, parodies, songs, and micro-skits. Le Fat Show airs every Thursday at 8 p.m. The first season runs from January 24 to July 11, 2013. The second season will run from November 21, 2013 to May 29, 2014. The third and final season, produced by Golden Moustache, took place from June 7 to June 29, 2015.

Golden Moustache

In September 2014, they join the Golden Moustache team at the start of the third season. The first video they posted was their song “Il a mis son sexe” (literally, “He put his penis”). They then produce other songs or sketches, as well as their video series “Ont-ils un cœur” (literally, “Have they got a heart”) where the two friends have fun banging into various poles to see the reaction of the people surrounding them.

Their last video on this channel is “On fête les 4 ans du Mariage pour tous!” (literally, “We are celebrating same-sex marriage’s 4thyear anniversary), released in 2017. In this video, they ask people on the street for their opinions on same-sex marriage, after which they kiss each other. They also participated in a documentary about youth, which was broadcast on France 4 television at 8:55 pm on May 4, 2017 and they appear from time to time in OFNI, l’info retournée (a French TV show),on W9.

Youtube

In 2016, they decided to relaunch their own independent YouTube channel, which they renamed Mcfly et Carlito. On November 7, 2016, they posted their first ever video “J'effectue le dab”. From now on, they post a new video every Sunday. They create several series of videos:

·      Le meilleur jeu en voiture (literally, “The Best Car Game”): This game consists of turning off the radio in the middle of a sentence and finishing it by improvisation. This video concept is the one that appeared the most on their YouTube channel (10 times).

·      On appelle des gens au hasard dans nos téléphones (literally, "We call random people on our mobile phones"): Mcfly and Carlito bring a guest. All three of them must answer questions from the QuipoQuiz website. If the answer given is wrong, the player must give his phone to the other two who must call a random person in their phone book. The player has to call this person and must place a definite word during the call.

·     Mario Carte Bleue: with a guest, they have to play the Mario Kart video game and the loser has to give his credit card to the other two who buy him something useless, cumbersome and expensive on the Cdiscount website that sponsors these videos. In the episode of July 1st2018, the game is filmed on a real karting track with the youtubers Squeezie, Cyprien, Natoo and Cyril. This series is part of the “jeux de mots” (literally, “the video game word games") video series; with videos like Strip Fighter(Street Fighter), Instawars (Starwars: Battlefront II), Red Head Redemption(Red Dead Redemption 2) or Dragon Boule à Z (Dragon Ball Z).

·     On crée des chansons en impro (literally, "We improvise songs"): the goal is to improvise a new song, in a group of four and following the indications of suggestions they received on Twitter.

·     Concours d’anecdotes (literally, “Anecdote contest”): they receive a well-known guest duo and both duets have to tell anecdotes and the other duet has to guess if the anecdote is true or false. Losers get a forfeit.

·     Youtube Warrior: they must complete an obstacle course (with two other guests). They must complete this course more quickly than their opponents did. Winners have the right to post a video on the losers' channel.

·     Méli-Mélo (literally, “mish-mash”): McFly and Carlito, joined by Bigflo & Oli (famous French hip-hop duo) play original mini-games created by one of them. In the first episode, Mcfly and Carlito created the game called “Les chansons beaucoup trop honnêtes” (literally, “The far too honest songs”), a concept they will keep and make a new video with new guests (video marking their summer break in 2018). In this video, the guests are: Bigflo, Oli, Manu Payet, Maxenss, etc.

·     On repasse le Bac (literally, “We retake the baccalaureate”): a series of 6 episodes launched in February 2019 in which McFly and Carlito record themselves retaking the baccalaureate. On the videos, they have to revise the subjects with other youtubers that are here to help them, and then take mock exams and the final exams. They also get help from some professional sportsmen and women. Both of them eventually get their baccalaureate, without honours. Carlito get a baccalaureate L, which focuses on literature, and McFly get a baccalaureate S, a science focused version.

By November 2017, their Youtube channel has over 2 million subscribers. Mcfly and Carlito organised a video for the occasion, which was first broadcast live and then re-released a few days later.

In one year, they went from 300,000 subscribers to 2,500,000 subscribers. In April 2018, they surpassed 3 million subscribers and reached 4 million subscribers in November of the same year.

In February 2019, they celebrate their 4 million subscribers and two years of activity on YouTube by sharing their story in a video. In the same video, they announced the creation of a website to thank their subscribers. On this website, you can find funny videos dedicated to 2,500 different first names.

On April 2, 2020, during the period of containment due to the VIDOC-19 pandemic, they organise a “Maradon", which is a one-day Youtube live including many celebrities. The aim is to collect donations for hospitals in France to help the medical staff during the COVID-19 crisis. In 11 hours and 18 minutes of live, they managed to raise over €400,000.

Television

On February 25, 2020, TMC broadcasted McFly and Carlito’s own TV show named L’émission de McFly et Carlito.

Political commitment

The two Youtubers are committed to climate change as part of the Affaire du Siècle, a French climate justice campaign.

Bibliography

With FloBer, Le Dictionnaire moderne, Michel Lafon, September 27,2018, 217 p. ( ISBN 2-7499-3715-9 )