Le Rire Jaune is a duo of French Youtubers of Chinese origin. Kevin Kē Wěi Tran and Henry Kē Liáng Tran are brothers and post their videos on Youtube.

Biography[edit]

The duo consists of Kevin and his brother Henry. Kevin attended the secondary school Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and the post-secondary school Lycée Saint-Louis. He graduated from Telecom SudParis and got an engineering degree in 2016. Henry joined the ESSEC Business School in July 2017 after attending preparatory classes at Intégrale.

Le Rire Jaune's first video was released on YouTube on 26 November, 2012. Kevin, the elder brother, originally made sketches alone on YouTube with the slogan "because an Asian guy with no accent can make you laugh too". Henry started to help Kevin write and shoot videos and then appeared in some of them until February 2014 where he released his first solo video called "Avoir 18 ans".

During the Web Comedy Awards in 2014, Le Rire Jaune won the Révélation Orangina award.

Their YouTube Channel had about 5 million subscribers in November 2019, making it the eleventh biggest French YouTube Channel in terms of subscribers.

In 2015 Kevin created a second YouTube Channel called Le Show Jaune where he posts reviews of viral videos. Those videos are now posted on their main Youtube channel.

Elle magazine listed the duo among the most influential people of generation Z.

Their video Les Grandes Écoles was the ninth most viewed French video on Youtube (excluding music videos) in 2015.

In 2016 Kevin appeared in the film adaptation of Ratchet & Clank as the character Zed.

Kevin was also interviewed on the Good Morning Cefran show on Mouv' and appeared on the Guillaume Radio 2.0 show on NRJ.

In 2016 Kevin Tran published a manga called Ki et Hi that tells the story of two brothers and is inspired by his relationship with Henry. The drawings are made by Fanny Antigny, a subscriber that Kevin noticed after she sent him fan art. The manga sold well in bookstores.