Miguel Alvarez |
A Coruña (EFE).- Luis Piedrahita has a long history in the world of humor, in which he notes that, more and more, there are people who “revolt” at certain jokes, but alert that those who are offended are ” condemned to eternal itching” in a life full of bad news in which laughter is very necessary.
In full preparation for the World Meeting of Humorism, which he directs in A Coruña between April 28 and May 7, Piedrahita (A Coruña, 1977) analyzes the current humorous scene in an interview with EFE.
He considers that “talking about the limits of humor makes very little sense because humor is a limit, it is a border, it is having one foot in reality and the other foot in fiction”.
For him, his job is to maintain “a look with one serious eye and the other winking” and, in fact, it is precisely what he shows with the poster of the event, which “talks about shaking heads.”
“That is what humor has to do: blur borders. We must know what things are made of and that humor works like an intellectual hadron collider in which hundreds of ideas collide until they make us smile, ”he sums up.
Note, however, that more people are drawing red lines on things that can be made jokes about.
“It is a problem of the people. The offense happens in the offended. There was a time 40 years ago when you couldn’t talk about anything, then you could talk about everything and now it seems that you can talk about everyone, but there are things that if you talk about, it seems that people get upset”, he analyzes .
He warns that the person “who is offended” by humor is “condemned to eternal stinging”, since laughter “serves to face life”.
“In life, it is usually all bad news, but there is some good news: love, knowledge and art. The humor is within the latter, ”he explains.
World Meeting of Humorism
And here he frames an event like the World Meeting of Humorism, which is almost in its third edition and will have humorists like Silvia Abril, Xosé Antonio Touriñán, Dani Rovira, Eva Hache, Eva Soriano, Ana Morgade, Carolina Iglesias, Leo Harlem, Ignatius Farray, Full Pantomime, Javier Tired or Javier Veiga.
“We do it here because I am from here, although not only for that. It was evident that the great Galician writers have in common that they all drank from the bucket of humor. They did high humor and this is one more reason to remember that high humor ”, she reveals.
He says it on a stage like the Plaza del Humor in A Coruña, where figures from all these writers -Vicente Risco, Otero Pedrayo, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez- show that ironic humor that led them to portray their reality as Piedrahita himself also portrays it, who has just released a figure in the same square.
“When you prepare an event like this and call your colleagues and propose it to them, as soon as you tell them that it is in A Coruña there is no one who does not want to come and have a laugh,” he recounts.
He himself will participate and will do so with an exam on “the soundtrack of our laughter”, a show in which he will do a “deep analysis” on mythical themes such as ‘I have a milk cow’, ‘Pajaritos a volar’ or ‘I have a yellow tractor’.
It will be a few days, as he concludes, of guaranteed laughter and in which, he hopes, the prevailing idea is to disconnect and think, as his motto for this year says: “shake heads”.