Mister V, a man in farts

A teenager's bedroom, late 2000s. Desperate by impossible math problems, the 16-year-old girl in us discovers a video of a 16-year-old scrawny, desperate by impossible math problems. At the time, these three long, crackling, grainy sketch minutes seem brilliant to us. This is the beginning of the Mister V universe, which parodies his life as a high school student, a fan of rap and basketball, with his friends, against a backdrop of pee-poo-fart humor and the mountains of Grenoble.

Sixteen years later, we meet the 32-year-old YouTuber-comedian-rapper-not-basketball player in a VIP box at the immense Adidas Arena basketball arena. Sporting a green sweatshirt and baggy streetwear, Yvick Letexier, his real name, has the aura of a good friend who's comfortable in his sneakers and stayed up too late again. "I edited a video until 3 a.m. last night," sighs the man with 23 million subscribers across all networks and super-polished production, neither crackling nor grainy.

Yvick Letexier never takes off his hat and now dons that of an actor. In McWalter, an Amazon Prime comedy, he plays an amnesiac secret agent, wrongly accused of terrorism, who must brave 14 bad guys and 53 explosions per second. Surprisingly funny, this pastiche of a 90s American action movie draws on the absurdity of