Controversy Lights and shadows of José Luis Coll, the genius of humor: "Lovers? It was normal, my mother accepted it"
Controversial aside, the statements by José Luis Coll's son have caused Tip and Coll to be talked about again on TV and several projects have been launched to dust off the duo that marked a generation with their surreal humor.
One of them is led by
Luis Sánchez-Polack
(41), who has the same name and surnames as his great-uncle, although composed.
A film, theater and television screenwriter (among his works is the series Raphaelismo, by Movistar +), he has kept in a drawer for six years the text of a
series of four chapters about Tip
that could now end up on the screen.
The series has a name (
Tip, Santo Varon
) and an actor, Fele Martínez, but until now Luis and his partner, Borja Echeverría, had not managed to get any producer to take a serious interest in it.
Until now.
"It's funny because
the script has been hand in hand since 2016
and this week two interested producers have called me," he tells LOC. They have also called him to participate in
Imprescindibles
(La 2), which is going to be dedicated to Tip and Coll, and he has received a rumor that a
Blood ties
with them as protagonists.
A
revival
with which he is delighted, because he believes that
it is time to vindicate them.
"It happens a lot in Spain,
we don't know how to value artists
.
It happened to me with Raphael
, I grew up seeing him as a geek and he was an immense artist," he admits.
Tip and Coll, with a goat, in another of their performances.
As was his great-uncle.
"He was an absolute genius,"
he remembers.
He is also a very loved person, and he knows it because
for bearing his name they have given him everything, even gasoline.
"It happens to me many times, I go to buy something and they invite me because they immediately link me with Tip.
The name makes magic
because everyone smiles when it comes to their head," he says.
In reality, his second surname is Rodríguez, but since
Polack was lost in the family
, he registered his brother and his father with the compound surname.
Luis was 19 years old when Tip died, in 1999, but it gave him time to get to know him well, thanks also to the stories that his uncles and grandfather told him about
Chavo
, as they called him at home, because he was so small when he was born that they thought he was not it was worth a penny.
And so he stayed.
Luis was
the youngest of a family of six children
who was born in Valencia by chance because his father, who worked at Wagon Lit, used to change assignments.
Since I was little I pointed out ways.
When he was 4 years old, on his
first day of school
, his father went to look for him at the exit and asked him
what he liked the most about school
.
"Get out," replied the kid.
He was never a good student, although he was a
voracious reader
, and he decided to follow in the footsteps of
his brother Fernando
(
La Caza
,
Verano Azul
...) and become an actor like him.
At the age of 19, he entered the radio and triumphed with
Tip and Top
, the first humorous duo that he formed with
Joaquín Portillo
.
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In 1952
he married Lola de Prados del Río
and at 11 months his only son, Luis, was born, whom they called
Pelotilla
, but the marriage ended up separating and living a
tragedy that marked Tip's life forever.
At the age of 9,
Pelotilla
was operated on for appendicitis and she died in the operating room due to an
excessive dose of anesthesia
.
"He was a blow.
He had a very strong depression,"
recalls Luis.
The tragedy was repeated years later when
his second partner, Quica Basarán,
with whom he had a 23-year relationship,
also died suddenly
.
"Death haunted him, it was his only enemy
, because he also suffered a lot from the loss of his mother and his brother Fernando," says his nephew.
When Luis began to do the field work for the series, he discovered that wherever he went, he left a
trail of surreal anecdotes
.
"He was like Forrest Gump,
but really, because
he wasn't a character, he was like that
."
He has them all written down.
"In bars, for example,
he would drive the waiters crazy
, change their names or ask for weird things. He talked to everyone, the weirder the better. He loved giving absurd cooking recipes to the ladies" .
The actress Josele Román, who worked with Tip and Coll in the film
La garbanza negra, may she rest in peace
, and in a play, also remembers Tip's surrealism.
"Every day, during the months that the performance lasted, he went to the haberdashery next to the theater and
bought the lady a toilet chain
. He had them all in the dressing room. It was hilarious and had a lot of coconut."
Alfonso Ussía
vindicates him as an "immeasurable" genius.
She shared with him for 14 years the gathering of
the State of the Nation Debate
, in the
Luis del Olmo
program , and they were very good friends.
"Anecdotes? A lot...
He pulled down Mariano Medina's pants
when he was giving the weather on television... or the day on a trip to Barcelona when a
civil guard with a huge mustache
asked us to leave metal objects in the tray and he said 'whatever you order, good woman'. It was incredible".
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