Between recording from the garden of their parents' house and winning an Ondas Award, in the lives of
Victoria Martín
and
Carolina Iglesias
there is a podcast. Between investing their savings in a series that no platform wanted and ended up on YouTube and being
Andreu Buenafuente
collaborators
, there are 17 months. Between the first reeds that joined them and the few minutes that tickets for their shows all over Spain now last, there are 55 programs of
Stretching the gum
and no intention of breaking it.
“We have created this with Nacho [her producer] and Susi [her press officer], no one has put us on a program.
We ran out of resources, we put in our money and worked 24 hours a day, including weekends, "starts Victoria Martín.
"At first we invested in a
videowall
and a cool photo session to appear more than we were," complements Carolina Iglesias.
The appearance was that of two comedians - here gender matters - who in May 2020 did not reach 30, they appealed to a female and young audience, they
had discovered their affinity over a few beers between "nonsense" and "complaints towards the industry"
and they had created a series,
Válidas
, that nobody wanted to buy and posted on YouTube.
But reality says that in just a year and a half they already have about four million reproductions a month with their program -a million weekly-, a recently won Ondas for the best podcast, they are part of the
Late Motiv team
and the queues for their
shows
in I live only understand growth.
In Valencia, a month ago, there were thousands of people who waited hours before their arrival at more than 30 degrees for an enclosure that collapsed and forced people to see them from outside the fences.
"We can no longer control the phenomenon, but we are funny and that leads us to continue," they acknowledge.
Internet is fine, but we want the pan of the TV, a boat and an apartment building
And more so now that the wave does not stop growing, although there are some nuances.
“
We are aware that this fascination is going to end, but the industry has not opened all the doors of the world to us either
.
There are only people at times who bring us proposals to take a piece of the cake without getting too wet ", details Victoria, who adds that" to be called as a dissident voice, you have to be number 1.
Stretching the gum it has been in Spain for months in Spotify listening.
"
That they call us now is no longer a bet
, they call you because the program is already on track, otherwise I would communicate all the time because there are people who like our speech, but others like us to be number 1" , finishes Carolina.
In fact, they have experienced it in the first person in the world of male comedy. «There are some who call us and it shows that they have not listened to us. If they had, they would not do it because we have given them birth.
But they see an opportunity to take advantage of an image whitewash
and we have to know how to choose.
For the moment they have chosen television and the support of Buenafuente, who was the first to take them as guests to
Late Motiv
and now have them collaborating. "Internet is very good, but
we also want the pan of the TV, a boat or an apartment building from the first to the ninth
", slides Victoria Martín with that tone between strident joke and characteristic claim: "It is not necessary to be there all day fighting and angry, we are very happy, but it gives us the ass that in the end they tell us that there is already a comedian working in
The Resistance
when the script teams everywhere are full of men ».
That, along with anxiety and mental health problems, are the lines with which they have been penetrating a majority female audience - 84% of their listeners are women - and youth.
What some have come to call the crystal generation.
«
And the rock generation says that they did not tell anything, they did not know how to take charge of their feelings
and they married or had a child to try to solve something.
It is still better to go to the psychologist than to cover up something that is wrong, "says Carolina.
ANTONIO HEREDIA
And his partner just closed it. “It is an absurd definition when they are much more aware than their parents or us of their mental health because they go to the psychologist much more than before. I started with 24 and I went early, but
my parents have never worried about their mental health and thus they have things in life badly managed
».
Sitting in front of them is not too different from listening to them on the other side of the headphones. It is like a tennis match where all the balls come back loaded with some taunt. Now they go to those who define it as a program only for gay women or men. “Obviously we are targeting women more, but straight men have to listen, for example, to what it means to have a period and blood to come out from down there. If you are willing, for me it is a joy because it means that you go further.
And there are already a lot of women who tell us that their boyfriends listen to us without them
, it is not accompanying
them
, it is that they like our comedy and it amuses them ", explains Carolina Iglesias.
«I think they are starting to open up because this is not comedy for women, it is comedy and you may like it or not like the one a guy does. We receive many messages from 62-year-old gentlemen who are learning because their daughter taught it to them and they lose heart. It is absurd to reduce society to the ridiculous point that if he is an uncle he is going to like you more or less ", contributes Victoria Martín. And he adds with irony: "Someday we are in the same 50-50 of women and men ... Yes, by the balls."
His intention remains that his guests and collaborators are women - only one man has passed through
Stretching the gum
: Iggy Rubín - and, above all, not abandon the eschatological humor.
"They
still tell us that it is not necessary to talk about poop, that we are very good comedians to talk about poop
and it is not true, we are not that good comedians," they ironically.
People we have given birth to whitewash call us because they have not listened to us
Keeping what is working unchanged, the key to success of two women who do not forget to look back, at the beginning, that "it has not been easy."
When they created their series, the scarce money of the brands went to them in production expenses and they did not earn anything.
When even today they have tried to negotiate audiovisual projects with platforms, they have said no again.
"What must be done is that companies and the media bet on the most dissident voices of comic women, that they have a program and that they do not have to build it with their hands from below, like any man," says Victoria Martín, who puts on the table the issue of women in comedy and the supposed culture of cancellation that some men denounce.
-Do we have a culture of cancellation in our society?
CI
Just what has come is the time to retire now, just as some have spent their entire lives without anyone telling them anything and in their brains they have taken for good opinions that they are not.
VM
These people only think about what affects them and how nothing affects them because they say that everything is an exaggeration and they are censored.
They have no empathy.
Because of course, you are in the Eurobuilding or in your office cracking a straw after eating with a cigar.
And, thus, they close this talk with the intention of never stopping rolling the gum.
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