Comedian Joaquín Reyes (Albacete, 1974) brings his “Celebrate the joke” monologue to the Philharmonic Theater on Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3. Active since 2001, the head of “Albacete humor” will remind you of “Hora Chanante” with Ernesto Sevilla and Raúl Cimas, the role of computer scientist in “Cámara Café”, “Muchachada Nui” and “Museo”. Coconut.” Collaborate on “Break”.
– “Celebrate the joke” is a monologue. What’s inside?
– A lot of bullshit. I started with the monologue, and it’s a format I still feel very comfortable with as it allows me to elaborate.
– Tuned like Manchego cheese?
–I premiered in January 2020. Then it happened and I was forced (like most people) to stop, keep going, stop again… well. I am very adjusted. Comedy shows are highly enriched while being played.
-It’s not a stool, it’s a “standing” sofa because theatre. Monologue more monologue?
– It is very attractive to act for a small and drunken audience in venues, but I like to act in theaters more.
Do you feel more secure?
I hadn’t thought of that, maybe. In any case, the principles are always difficult. After 20 years of career, people want you at home.
– It’s called “Celebrate the joke”, let’s leave the house with a little laugh or is it enough to leave yourself alone?
–I chose this title so that people would laugh at my thanks. (I know they’re clear on this, but it doesn’t hurt to remember).
-SO FUNNY. You see, I do too. humor albacete does it work everywhere?
– It seems so. Stupidly, we’re a lot of Albacetes who devote ourselves to comedy. It continues to surprise me.
Did any Albacete imagine that their accent and speech would be funny in Spain, in competition with Andalusians, Maños, Catalans, Galicians?
–No, none of this is planned, nor is it professional. My dream was to devote myself to illustration, to live drawing.
-Yes. He graduated from Cuenca Fine Arts and started his career as a cartoonist. Became a character so that you don’t have to spend a lot of time on the board or graphics tablet?
–Entering the show business was a happy coincidence. A friend from the race was working at Paramount, he told the bosses about me and the rest is history. I never thought I would devote myself to this and moreover so long.
–If you could choose the lifestyle for yourself, your family and your mortgage, would you choose to draw?
–I would have no problem quitting television and dedicating myself only to drawing and writing.
– He wrote a novel called “Rush”. Do you have to do a lot to earn a living or have you always been a very talented creator?
I’m a restless ass.
“You don’t mean you do these things with your ass.”
– (Laughter) Eschatology is a source of inspiration.
-Was it always like this?
–I try not to get involved in things I don’t know how to do, but luckily, people in general have trusted me to do different tasks: acting, directing, writing… making moves .
-Do you have it humor your brother’s
No, I’m small.
–Is that the funny one in the house?
-Yes definitely. But he always had a great sense of humor in my house. Dad was hilarious and there were always jokes and jokes when we got together for dinner. Once, in the middle of dinner, my father recited this poem: “I wanted to marry Churrera / spend the whole day / be churro inside, churro outside.” The soup literally flowed out of my nose.
– What good has it helped you in life, other than making a living from humor during the 21st century?
It is a very effective weapon for dealing with problems.
– Is your humor understandable at any age?
–Ugh…, I guess I don’t reach the “centennials” anymore.
– Although it has a classical basis in white and absurd humor, it contains many pop references and a form of intergenerational communication (cursing, idioms). Do people your age laugh better?
– The comedian ages with his audience, he is multi-generational. I try not to be nostalgic and focus on the humor being made right now.
Who are you dealing with now?
–Esperansa Grasia, it pleases me; our younger brothers, the Vengamonja, and the Noguera, who is in front of everyone.
– He did gang humor with Raúl Cimas, Ernesto Sevilla, Julián López, Carlos Areces. Did they feed each other?
-Too much! We were very different but shared a similar mood. Many jokes came out of our jokes.
– Do they overlap?
–Everyone runs their own life, but Ernesto and I keep our asses together… Donkeys together forever!
–There are a lot of comedians at a time when people are very serious. Why do you think this is so?
–Despite the noise, humor continues to unite us. People really want to laugh and forget their problems.
– He who does not imitate is an imitator. Who showed more discomfort than those who were not imitated?
–Sánchez Dragó did not like the parody much; He declared that it was literally the worst thing he had ever seen in his life. Considering what that gentleman must have seen, it’s not worthless.
-Hahaha. He acts like a ventriloquist in “Celebrate the joke” but doesn’t slurp.
–No, I do it with a trowel like Mari Carmen. But people are looking after the baby.
– He appears as an actor at the expense of earning his bread, do you agree?
–Uhm… I don’t think there is an actor who can take on every role; I have no education I feel more comfortable describing myself as a comedian.
– An actor who doesn’t think so, a cartoonist who draws little, an imitator who doesn’t imitate, a ventrilogist who doesn’t. Is he really from Albacete? Is he a lucky man? resist!
– (lots of laughter) Of course, luck played a big role. I also think that in some ways we are deviating from the norm and going the other way. So we tried to be original.
– Do your children laugh with you, do they have vaccinations, are you serious at home?
– We laugh a lot with everyone at home. My kids are so funny, you’re ruining them.