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-Ernesto, do you want Joaquín as your lawful husband?

-Joaquín, do you want Ernesto as your lawful husband?

This scene has never actually occurred.

But, if it had happened, the response of

(Albacete, 1978) and

(Albacete, 1974) would have been the same: "Yes, I do."

And the comic marriage that two Fine Arts students began 23 years ago would have a formal signature that would last until comedy separated them.

It would be eternal.

Q. Shall we renew your vows?

JR

I believe that we have already pushed to the end, until we are particles in the universe.

EN

If we haven't fought anymore, what remains is pure inertia.

Inertia is the glue of all relationships.

And if he dies, I'll go with his brother, like in marriages before.

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And both of them, sitting on a sofa at the Café Pavón in Madrid, in full promotion of their animated series for HBO Max,

are invaded by laughter without remedy.

As will be repeated continuously in this talk, which was intended to be an interview to end up turned into a two-voice monologue, a look at the past, a dissection of humor and, of course, a defense of Mancheguismo.

Because the two children who met through the friendship of their parents, the teenagers who shared their studies and the two youngsters who sublimated a way of making humor in

continue to do their thing.

Without complex.

Q. Your humor has aged quite well, hasn't it?

They don't get much criticism.

JR

Because it has always had something timeless and we did not rely on reality.

This series has asked us to talk about issues such as racism or machismo because it is about good and evil, but always with a personal point.

EN

In truth, we have always done social and political humor, but in the result of this script it is more evident because of the topic we touch on.

The subject is Stan, a good-natured young man who, in reality, is the Antichrist and must destroy humanity.

Whose father, with the voice of Ignatius, already allows himself a joke about Hitler and the Nazis in minute two of the series.

Is that possible in a society that is accused of practicing political correctness?

"That is a runrún to justify many things.

. I think that you can talk about everything, but you have to know that when making a joke, the mockery falls on a collective. If that is your intention, there is no problem. If you bother someone you did not intend, you probably have not had a good approach, "says Joaquín Reyes.

Q. Do you self-censor?

JR

You don't go down the street saying everything that occurs to you, well this is the same.

There is a lot of noise with this and it is not a big deal.

What does seem censorship to me is that someone is denounced for making a joke.

EN

Another thing is that they insult you or threaten you.

We already know that Twitter is a shithole where everyone is going to be insulted.

And the problem is misplacement, knowing where you shouldn't make certain jokes.

That is the reason that much of the shit.

If you always do the same humor as with your friends at the bar, you're a bit of an asshole.

Of criticism and insults, this couple also knows a while after their time as presenters of the Goya in 2018, described by many as the worst in history.

comedians

. And we hit it off, but they really wanted to."

Q. If they had not been

JR

People like you better if you're less popular, it happens with everything, when you discover something you think you're special and if it becomes famous, it loses its magic.

But everything must be relativized, we are from the

those who present once and do not repeat.

ES

I don't regret anything in my career, just the time I killed a man in Reno.

Also, you learn more about life when you fail and move on.

Humor is very healthy to hide your problems, much better than alcohol or drugs.

Q. Has coming from the

JR

Yes, above all because we have always been honest with whoever hired us.

We told him that he was going to like our

, but not to expect a massive success because the problem starts when you don't meet expectations.

We have rejected many things because they were going to ask us for things that we did not know how to do.

We have never wanted to be commercial because that implies making many concessions.

Q. Have you changed your humor to reach sectors such as women?

JR

We have never known who our humor was aimed at, we did not think about gender or age.

ES

When we started, it was clear that there were far fewer women in this and most of them couldn't even talk about certain things.

Now they have their own voice and do not have to talk about strictly feminine problems such as menstruation.

P. Has humor been stolen?

JR

It's kept going until not long ago, when we had the debate about whether the woman was funny.

Well, some do and others don't, like men, just the question is already absurd.

There is no feminine humor, they talk about the things that matter to them;

some claim, others do not;

some are rude, others are not.

But it is that women have not been able to say certain things out of pure and simple machismo.

Humor doesn't go across genres and to say that they are always angry is an absurd cliché.

As closure, each one fires his last proclamation.

One to his land, the other to his work.

"Albacete has never had great fame, but it is a place to be proud of. La Mancha is a place you go to without expectations and the man from La Mancha sees you from afar, is suspicious and analyzes. That is why we are so sly," Joaquín adds. Kings.

"

. On the street I receive a lot of love, but I get slapped, pushed and shouted in my ear. I don't think they do the same to Luis Tosar and I like that people know that mine is also art", concludes Ernesto Sevilla.

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