Blood Ties | Tuesday and Thirteen and the truth never told

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It was the humor that a whole generation grew up with. The Iberian Monty Python . Can there be a greater trophy than this? It is difficult to overcome. With Martes y Trece, with Josema Yuste , Millán Salcedo and Fernando Conde , I grew up and probably you too. It is the humor that accompanied us at recesses, it is the humor by which millions of houses kept absolute silence on New Year's Eve, it is the humor with which they laughed until they cried, it is the humor of Encarna and the dumplings , of the fagot of Spain , by Paca Carmona, of the triplets. It is the humor that today would be impossible to do, but that they turned not only into a tradition but into the history of our television. But behind great triumphs like that of Tuesday and Thirteen , there are also secrets, open secrets that Blood Ties uncovered last night , revealing what we all knew and none of them had said until now.

At last, it was necessary to dedicate a program to know what happened to Martes y Trece , what happened when they were a trio and ended up in a duet, what happened between Josema Yuste and Millán Salcedo , what happened so that at the highest point of success a Good day of 1997 they will say up to here we have arrived, what happened with Encarna, what happened with Isabel Pantoja , what happened so that more than 20 years later our memory still saves as if it were yesterday those simple, but at the same time so impressive scketch , what happened so that they cannot be forgotten even wanting.

Of the collaborators who were at Lazos de Sangre last night , all agreed after seeing the special in which the most shocking thing was to hear Josema Yuste confirm what Millán Salcedo denies, that they were not friends, that they were never friends and that it was only work. And maybe that was the reason why it all ended abruptly. Or maybe not, because even listening to both and Fernando Conde and who discovered them and who shared and shares intimacies with them, the real reason why everything ended is still unclear.

The whirlwind of success, the pressure, the abysmal differences between one and the other, the lunatic creativity of Millán Salcedo or the organized path of Josema Yuste were some of the reasons that were put forward last night. But nothing that could be said in the Blood Ties last night clarified the question that all of us who yearned for Tuesday and Thirteen have been asking ourselves for so many years. And perhaps it is not necessary to clarify anything because more than everything that was said last night, the program served to return us to a few years where humor was done without thinking about the offended, without putting on preserves, without putting on gates. A humor that today would be impossible to do, as Las Virtudes claimed last night .

The best thing about Last Night's Blood Ties was not what we all wanted to know but to remember what Tuesday and Thirteen meant to a whole generation. To see again that sketch for which Encarna Sánchez hired even a detective to investigate Millán Salcedo , for which the announcer even called La Moncloa so that it was not broadcast, or that improvised sketch for technical problems on December 30, 1986 in which Millán Salcedo poorly characterized as Encarna Sánchez picked up a phone to listen to a Josema Yuste who was not seen and who spoke from Algete with his pasties. A sketch they only did that night and they never performed again. A sketch that made history like so many others. A sketch that 30 years later continues to make those who did not raise a half a foot off the ground cry with laughter. Can you imagine something similar today? Impossible.

"It was heads or tails, if you screwed up twenty million people would see you," explained Josema Yuste . A sketch as, as simple as a wig, a phone, a voiceover and a good part of improvisation. The humor of the simple, of the simple, as Carlos Latre said last night . A humor that was not complicated, that laughed at everything, but especially the everyday, the most simplistic, and that started laughing at the unthinkable, even a nun taking a ride on a bike without the seat of the saddle. Would it be possible to do something like that today? Or simulate an orgasm while a butler tests your cotton. Today they would be thrown around their necks. Or sing I am "fagot, fagot of Spain" as Millán Salcedo sang making public his sexual orientation. "That made it easier for many others at that time," said Victor Manuel in last night's special. And with the word "fagot". Oops, if OT's can hear it!

"We live in a very tough society. Spontaneity and humor have been lost, anything annoying, " said Beatriz Cortázar. "Now there is a very high level of intransigence. There is not a single humorist in this country who, when sitting at his table to write skits, does it to hurt, he does it in good faith and to make people laugh," Manolo Sarriá finished . Campofrío's announcement last year with the offended, as is.

Tuesday and Thirteen were born by chance, from a meeting in the military between Millán Salcedo and Fernando Conde , and a knock on the door of a dressing room looking for Josema Yuste . They started working in brothels where, as Fernando Conde revealed last night, there were nights when they were not even allowed to finish the performance, in which they even shot pesetas to leave, while Fernando Conde relaunched them again to the public in a outburst of bad host. Alternate club nights that ended the day José María Íñigo discovered them in the Fastasticos program . That night Josema Yuste , Fernando Conde and Millán Salcedo planted a simple blonde wig and caricatured the triplets of Julio Iglesias, María Laura, María Eugenia and María Emilia. José María Íñigo had 45 minutes doing that sketch , 45 minutes in which José María Íñigo did not move his eyelashes, 45 minutes of suffering that gave the starting gun to the greatest success.

Before, they were the opening act for Isabel Pantoja , yes, for Isabel Pantoja, with whom they shared a tour where they not only became great friends, but where the mother of Pantoja, Doña Ana, served on a platter to parody her daughter and herself. It was Doña Ana, according to what Millán Salcedo told last night , who put her in the Pantoja bathroom, told her to "take off that", stripped off her dress and put it on for Millán Salcedo to go on stage to become the doña Ana of humor.

A tour in which they shared the first years of Isabel Pantoja and Paquirrí , in which they even experienced moments that we would never have believed in, moments such as dressing the bullfighter and sharing the toilet with him while taking a shower because Millán Salcedo could not bear the "pee". Moments that no one would imagine taking into account the one that years later became involved with the famous sketch of the vacations of Isabel Pantoja and Encarna Sánchez . But that is a separate chapter, which the comedians did not want to miss in Lazos de Sangre .

After the success of the triplets and their entry through the front door into the world of television, Fernando Conde left the trio. A hard blow of which rivers of ink were written, with serious accusations and great silences that, even today, continue trying that they are not heard too much. According to Josema Yuste , Fernando Conde decided to leave the trio because he was "brave" and wanted to dedicate himself to classical theater. According to Millán Salcedo , the blow was very hard, period.

According to Fernando Conde , the breakup was not as beautiful as they want it to seem but it was a sum of personal and professional disagreements that still continue to hurt today. You may not remember it the same, but when Fernando Conde decided to leave the trio he gave many headlines that had little humor. Blood ties also did not want to delve too deeply into that, simply disagreements and a "pissed off" that for Fernando Conde is still present, although he acknowledges that his friendship with Millán Salcedo is unbreakable.

A friendship that has nothing to do with what apparently there was and is between Millán Salcedo and Josema Yuste . While the first, who for the first time opened the doors of his house to a television program, assures that of course they were friends, Josema Yuste sounded more sincere: "Friends, friends, friends we have never been . " Did anyone doubt that this was not the case? When they announced the end of Tuesday and Thirteen without a convincing explanation or, rather, without any explanation and without being seen together again many years later, the rumors that this dynamic duo had rather little and that they simply took because they had to work together, they sounded more than strong. Actually, from what was said last night, their breakup had nothing to do with whether they were friends or not, but with a success that swallowed and engulfed them until continuing was more a suffering than a rejoicing. Not even today do they agree on the versions about who broke or how the decision was made.

Josema Yuste assured Lazos de Sangre that it was something consensual that was decided between the two. Millán Salcedo affirms that it was he who made the decision to end Martes y Trece. Josema Yuste reveals that success was with Millán Salcedo. "" He had his motives and I had mine. It had to explode at some point, he wanted to run away from the managers , the pressure from the public ... He had to be billed and it happened to him, "said Josema Yuste . And it was a high, very high bill, but that Millán Salcedo He knew how to turn it around. It gave the impression that Josema Yuste wanted to clean up something he believes to be dirty, while Millán Salcedo simply wanted to show Millán Salcedo . As Carlos Latre said, "at first it gave the impression that Josema was the white clown and Millán the clown . " Well, it seems that things remain the same.

And the other version, the version by Millán Salcedo , the other version. "He does not assume it and continues without understanding it," Millán Salcedo confessed . As Manolo Sarriá, from the Pencil Sharpener Duo , said last night , what was clear last night is that "they were not happy". "We have not been immensely happy. We have had 30% of bad moments. Millán has brought success in a different way than mine," revealed Josema Yuste . Their differences, which were many, were what led them to reach the highest.

They were like "the water and the oil," Rosa Villacastín said last night in the special. Millán Salcedo was "creativity" and Josema Yuste was "ambition". And although it is true that at first they knew how to penetrate and find in the strength of one, the power to cover the weaknesses of the other, it gave me the feeling after finishing the program that the abrupt end of Tuesday and Thirteen was the chronicle of an announced death . "They died of success," said last night the collaborators of Blood Ties .

Of success and other things that both hinted at, but which neither confirmed. "Our relationship was gradually cooling down," said Millán Salcedo , while Josema Yuste went a step further and assured that "there were many intermediaries in between and many many in the hundreds." Money, bad relationship, too much success, pressure ... "I am surprised that they have lasted so many years," they stated from the set and they are right.

Yes, they endured many years, perhaps too many or perhaps not, or perhaps the approach would have had to be of another type, or perhaps if it had not been so, they would not have gone down in history, because Millán Salcedo and Josema Yuste are history , history of humor and history of television. I don't think either of them regrets putting an end to Tuesday and Thirteen in that 1997 New Year's Eve special, but they both had and are clear that they were never going to achieve the success they achieved with Tuesday and Thirteen, because Tuesday and Thirteen were unique, unrepeatable, exceptional, unmatched. If I have to keep something, I'm not left with what is inside, but with what they got, with what they did every time they got on a stage, with what they supposed and what they still suppose today. "It is foolish to separately claim to be more than Tuesday and Thirteen ", the word of Millán Salcedo .

The Blood Ties last night tried to delve into the truths of Tuesday and Thirteen , in their secrets never told, but Tuesday and Thirteen swallowed Josema Yuste and Millán Salcedo and swallowed the Blood Ties , because what will always remain will not be if they separated by X, by Y or by Z, neither if they ended badly or if one is better than the other or if the other is better than the one, what will remain forever is their humor, their laughter, the nostalgia that they produce throughout a generation, but most of all, laughing out loud clean. Can there be anything else necessary today? It can, but it will never be Tuesday and Thirteen .

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