Mediapro fiasco: Paul de Saint-Sernin, the troublemaker of Téléfoot who tackles his boss on the air

In the heart of the Titanic, he would have been the man who sings to make the crew smile.

And who would not have hesitated to attack the iceberg responsible for the disaster.

On the Téléfoot channel, the verbal outbursts of comedian Paul de Saint-Sernin, 29, are expected as so many moments of release.

Because the sniper of the chain is now attacking its shareholder, Mediapro, whose inability to pay TV rights for French football will lead to the upcoming closure of Téléfoot.

Just after PSG-Lyon, last Sunday, Paul de Saint-Sernin asked Thomas Tuchel live "

what was most likely to happen: Messi at PSG or that Mediapro pays the rights?

"Just before, he had asked with the same nerve to Rudi Garcia, the Lyon coach" who will lose his job first?

You or me?

"

@jennydemay @SmaBouabdellah @annelaurebonnet @BODMERmathieu @ jseverin11 @JulienMomont @telefoot_chaine pic.twitter.com/6T54rCkOw2

- Paul de Saint-Sernin (@paulsaintsernin) December 13, 2020

At the end of the show, he was applauded by all the technicians, journalists and consultants on the set.

As if, through his scathing humor, he had become the unofficial spokesperson for a staff disgusted by the incompetence of their bosses but who cannot yet say so publicly.

In the world of football, a persistent rumor made him the son of Frédéric de Saint-Sernin, the former politician and then former president of Rennes for six years.

“Every week again, I'm entitled to it,” he smiles.

But my father is an insurance broker and has never seen a football game in his life!

Everyone thought I was a boost.

In fact, I met Frédéric the first time when he was in Rennes.

People also told him about his journalist son!

"

Jamel Comedy Club, "Petit Journal" ...

After scientific studies, he decides to change lanes.

"I said to myself:

you're a little dumb and you love football, try to marry the two

.

»Intern at Infosport +,« I unearthed in Paris the first images of the Knysna bus in 2010 », he then worked for i> tele, the ancestor of CNews.

“But I lost the passion.

I wanted to make people laugh.

Not seriously inform them.

So I decided to go on stage for stand-ups.

I found myself at the Jamel Comedy Club and even at the Olympia as part of a comedy tour, the Canal Tour.

"The encrypted channel hires him at the" Petit Journal "to follow the 2017 presidential election in its own way." I had told an improbable story to Emmanuel Macron, "he recalls.

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When Téléfoot was created, it offered its services.

“The idea was to go to the clubs to laugh with the players.

But the Covid forced me to stay on the plateau.

And today, my mixture of insolence and impertinence is seen a little more.

He especially relieves an editorial staff and technicians who thank him in private for changing the image of the channel.

"Thanks to him, people tell themselves that Téléfoot is the victim and Mediapro the bad guy", explains a journalist.

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Paul de Saint-Sernin is paid on a freelance basis every week.

After his performance last Sunday, Jean-Michel Roussier, the boss of Téléfoot, congratulated him and explained, that of course, he could continue.

Until the end.