A Crazy Miguel A telephone was enough for him to make the audience laugh with laughter. With his peculiar humor, he inspired a whole generation of young comedians who saw him as a teacher: humorists like Arturo Valls, who defines him as “a genius of humor”, or Ana Morgade, who remembers him as “a very serious man who it made you laugh a lot. ”
Precisely this year they have been fulfilled two decades after death of Gila, to whom a dozen comedians now pay tribute by picking up his mythical phone to reinterpret some of his monologues funniest in ‘Todo es Gila’.
“If you want to dedicate yourself to doing comedy, and you have not gone through Gila … it is a core subject,” says Morgade. “The way he had to say it made people from different places sit down to enjoy it,” says Valls.
Along with other comedians, such as Joaquín Reyes or Dani Rovira, are now put on the other end of the phone, giving the reply to the mythical comedian to bring his texts, genius and voice back to the stage.
This, in times marked by the algorithm in which, they say, Gila would be a risk: “Imagine him proposing to that manager: I’m going to go out talking on the phone, by myself. I imagine a gala director saying: no! , jokes! “, affirms Arturo Valls.
Today, their enemy could be those they call ‘offended’ on social media: “Surely Gila would receive letters from super angry people“, Ana Morgade adventure. To them, Gila would probably say a” to wear! “to read the primer.
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