‘Jokes towards Franco’ in e-book and cassette: The humor of issues that didn’t chuckle | Culture | EUROtoday

In the postal stamps of Franco, an effigy of the dictator appeared with a gesture of satisfaction.

– Do you understand why Franco’s face seems so glad within the stamps?

– Because even those that hate him need to lick him from behind …

It is likely one of the clandestine jokes that circulated in the course of the dictatorship and that, regardless of the laughter, had been based on very severe issues, that didn’t give something of laughter: torture within the General Directorate of Security, the persecution of the LGTBIQ+collective, the dying sentences, the nationalcatholic fanaticism or the hardness of exile.

Some books gathered these jokes, akin to Franco’s jokesby P. García (who was a collaborator of The quail), revealed in 1977, useless the satrap and shortly earlier than the amnesty regulation and the entry into pressure of the Constitution. Much much less time in the past that e-book fell into the fingers of artist Eugenio Merino, who, by the best way, on the Arc 2012 Artistic Fair triggered nice stir by placing a sensible statue of Franco in a Coca-Cola fridge: Always Francothe piece was titled.

Based on the jokes of the e-book, and with the collaboration of humorist Darío Adanti (member of the journal Mongolia) and actress Ana Alonso, launched final November 20, anniversary of the dictator’s dying, the present Jokes towards Francowithin the Teatro del Barrio de Madrid. These jokes think about an “anti -fascist resistance document.” The present has been included within the occasion cycle Spain in freedomorganized by the Government to commemorate the 50 years of the dying of the dictator and the next arrival of democracy.

Now they take a e-book, produced by the satirical journal Mongoliaand a cassette, like people who had been bought within the fuel stations. “The classic jokes format in the 70s was the cassette, so it had all the way we recorded it like this,” says Darío Adanti. The e-book, just like the play, mixes the jokes chosen with fragments of works of historians (akin to Pedro Alcántara Pérez, Fernando Olmedo, Rebeca Quintans, Pedro Oliver Olmo or Paul Preston, amongst others) on the rugged affairs that impressed that humor. The pack additionally features a reduce -out of the work Always Franco.

Another joke mentioned that Franco and his spouse had been in mattress, the deeply asleep chief. Then Carmen Polo, who lies stressed, offers her husband’s elbow.

– Go, Paco, let’s fuck …

And Franco jumps off the bed, runs to his workplace and begins signing dying sentences.

“It seems very important to spread what was the dictatorship and counting on real figures. Doing doing with jokes is a less solemn way, but not less dramatic,” says Adanti, who needs to take the present for universities and institutes, in view of the excessive proportion of younger individuals, particularly males, who strategy extremely -right postures and who say they like an authoritarian regime. “It is important to spread the horror and terror that was that dictatorship, despite the fact that both the PP and VOX, they continuously bleach it as it would have been nonsense,” says the humorist.

The steadiness of those months is “great,” in accordance with Adanti: “People are rolled up, we have done sold out In almost all sessions and we have had public of all ages. In addition, older people have telling us jokes that did not appear in the books we use and have been adding them to the show. ” show It has been turning through different cities, such as Granada, Murcia, soon Barcelona, ​​among others, in addition to the event on the 20th of each month, a day that Franco died, at the Teatro del Barrio de Madrid, which in 2024 won the National Theater Award.

Franco’s figure does not disappear from Spanish news and there are those who would prefer to bury it as a thing of the past, without digging up others. “We have listened to Feijóo saying that Gaza is the brand new Franco for the left, frivolizing each the bloodbath in Palestine and with the dictatorship. I imagine {that a} dictatorship that lasted 40 years, which killed tante individuals, which has 120,000 corpses buried within the gutters deserves to be remembered each day,” concludes Adanti.

With the end of the dictatorship, Franco dead, the stamps went on to take the effigy of King Juan Carlos I. A man then went to a post office.

– Good morning, I come to juicarlear This letter.

– How juicarlear? You will mean to cross.

– It appeared to me that issues weren’t going to vary as a lot as we anticipated …