Who is really Paul de Saint Sernin, the sniper of “what era” that everyone is talking about?

The sniper of “What era!”. This is how it has appeared every Saturday on France 2 for three years alongside Léa Salamé. Installed in the public, he shines with his shots and his spikes, often well felt, towards the guests of the program. The latter date from this Saturday, May 3 and were particularly acerbic.

This time, Paul de Saint Sernin had in his viewfinder Louis Sarkozy, the son of the former President of the Republic. He has mocked the accusations which his father is subject to. Whether on the way the young man has “financed his book” or on the fact that his father “is a thief”. And if these valves remained good, those against another guest were less so. This target was none other than Nicolas Bedos.

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Alone on the set on the occasion of the release of his book The thirst for shame (Ed. The observatory), the actor and director spoke of his sentence to one year in prison, including six me suspended under electronic bracelet, for sexual assault on two women in 2023. “All the money collected thanks to the sale of this book will be donated to an association of victims. You don’t know, I just decided it ”launched the humorist to Nicolas Bedos, a bit incredulous. “It’s serious what we say there”replied the actor while Paul de Saint Sernin justified his words: “It was a way of showing you that consent is important. I decide that this money is donated to this association without asking you for your opinion. ” Because in addition to being funny, the humorist turns out to be committed.

Chétif, old hague

To find the right sentence at the right time, the 33 -year -old humorist defends the fruit of a long work, luck and a little magic. “I am a roommate. However, I never laugh at someone. I succeed in a joke if the target laughs there ”, he nuanced. If he was wrongly perceived as the new little at the beginning of his appearances in “What era!”, Paul de Saint Sernin has gained thickness since the background of Christophe Dechavanne.

Whoever obtained his baccalaureate early at only 16 years old first went to journalism in Paris, multiplied the internships before meeting at Canal+ then Itelé, ex-CNews, where he presented the sports newspapers. A promising course, but a “Little too robotic” who encouraged him to assume his desires to make people laugh.

Paul de Saint Sernin then sought “His clown in him” And found him in this falsely casual air that he constantly wears. “I am the guy to whom we would give the good god without confession and who will let you go a huge scud”, he had fun. Nothing nourishes his comic part more than handling words. “I have an admiration for people who have mind. I love eloquence competitions ”, he insisted, playful. The perfect joke? “The one that provokes surprise and then laughs. The one where we exclaim: “well played”! »» This former teenager “CHÉTIF, Old Bègue” made his first scene five years ago at Paname Art Café. From mid-May, he will start a new tour of his eponymous show, until June 2026.

The round ball as a passion

But if it was by the humor that he turned out to the general public, sport – and more specifically football – arrives second in the list of his passions. The universe of the round ball so opposed, however, to its very family environment “Catho». “If I had to be wandering I would say that I am a Louis XVI who plays football”, launched the former columnist of “Telefoot”, while insisting on this sport which changed his life and the gaze of others on him and vice versa. “All my career choices were made to the feeling”, he said. Like his decisive meeting with his co -author, Grégoire Dey, also passionate about football. Together, they built his first show. A long -term work whose writing, different between the two men, turned out to be complementary. “I will multiply the valves, unlike Paul, who can remain blocked on a sentence, rewrite it to the nearby comma”, told the one who wrote in particular for Bérengère Krief.

This constant requirement towards his work and his person is undoubtedly in correlation with his very high intellectual potential discovered at 11 years old. A THPI linked to an autism spectrum disorder, the percentage of which remains in him to be defined by different tests. “Paul has this particularity linked to this neuroatypia. This is transcribed by his impactful pen and his rapid sense of analysis ”, deciphered the essayist Lorène Ferrands, with whom he continues to exchange regularly. Without ever having label, the interested party explained to fear making exams likely to reveal a concrete diagnosis. And therefore to redefine it.