- Do you have 36 shoes?
-No, there's nothing left of the War.
In times of Broncano , Ignatius or Susi Caramelo, television makes little room for this kind of jokes. "For the issues they play and how they play them, most of today's monologists are targeting an audience that goes from older teenagers to 45-year-olds, but then ...", reflects Miguel Ángel Tirado . "In my performances I talk to older people about the things that happen to us and the young people they will come over when they are our age," says the comedian known as Marianico el Corto , icon of humor in the 90's that has returned to the television spotlight thanks to the series The Last Show .
The tone and approach of this series created by Álex Rodrigo and produced by Aragón TV is in the line of What happened to Jorge Sanz? , Paquita Salas or The Kominsky method , fictions that roam between fiction and reality by the hand of a protagonist who interprets himself. In the case of The Last Show , the plot follows a veteran comedian who tries to run away from the character who gave him fame several decades ago because one day on stage he convinces himself that his jokes are no longer funny to anyone. «There are very good moments of laughter and others very sad, of rage, of frustration», summarizes the actor: «It is a real thing that can happen to any person of a certain age like mine, who do not know what to do with your life , that you are tired of always doing the same and want to do something new, but you don't know what.
At 70, Tirado feels identified with many of the feelings that parade through The Last Show . «As it happens to many people when you reach a certain age, you look closer to death than to continue living, and sometimes you have non-dark thoughts, but if you are sad, to think that you are going to leave and what you leave here », He says. However, the project, he says, has caused an opposite effect on him: « This series has made me want to live . I was with a huge force. There were many hours of recording but I have endured wonderfully physically, and mentally I no longer tell you ».
The debut of The Last Show on Thursday in Aragon TV - the series will also come later to other regional ones - was the most watched of the whole day in Aragon, ahead of even the programs of the generalist networks, with an average audience of 23.1% "It has been wonderful because we have even attracted teenage audiences, young people, and that is very important," celebrates Tirado, who clarifies that despite the play of mirrors the series "is not an autobiography." And he explains the biggest difference: «I don't want to stop doing my character. Marianico el Corto has made me live for a long time and I will never leave him because I am very grateful to him ».
Marianico el Corto was created by Tirado when he was 33 years old. His first appearance was on a night show on Radio Zaragoza, which he called asking for a joke and ended up telling him. Then came bowling in pubs, halls and clubs until television made him a celebrity: Do not laugh that is worse , Hello Raffaella , The Grand Prix of summer ... Then he disappeared from the screen, but has continued to cheer up winters of the retirees in Benidorm and the summers of the festivities of many towns. " The truth is that I have not stopped, " says Tirado. «What I like the most is that when you finish, people approach you, give you a hug and tell you that they had a great time».
Tirado would like there to be more seasons of this series, but with or without television he guarantees that it is not the last show: «I will continue with Marianico el Corto as long as I have health and can do it ».
-A hand that goes to Cartagena to do the military in the Navy.
-Name ... age ... provenance ... can you swim?
- Fuck! Is it that the ship doesn't put it?
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