The best of the Hispanic Day happened on Monday, with Andreu Buenafuente’s monologue to start the yourselves. This season, the program prioritizes topicality and immediacy to be broadcast on TV3 with very good audience results. The comedian reviewed the best images of Saturday’s military parade with the scorn of someone who refuses to normalize the absurd.
Veteran experience has given Buenafuente added value. Instead of pontificating and listening to himself as the big media stars usually do, proud of everything they have achieved, he prefers the look of someone who still wants to be surprised. And what’s more, he demonstrates an uncanny ability to handle an ineffective joke or poorly-successful gag. Buenafuente has the gift of turning the situation around. He pretended to make a speech about Barcelona’s new bid for the Olympic Games and compared the athletes who would come to the city with expats. The joke didn’t work. The audience on the set did not laugh and, faced with the silence, the councilor activated a belated clap that betrayed, even more, the ineffectiveness of the bunny. And Buenafuente preferred to highlight the failure instead of concealing it: “The script team told me: You say expats that people will laugh. I doubted it. But since they are younger…”. And then the audience spontaneously laughs. The presenter links it to a generational conflict and goes ahead, turning it into a virtue.
In the final stretch of the program, they took Buenafuente to the port of Masnou to do a surprise report. They wanted him to meet David Barreiro, an adventurer whose goal is to cross the Atlantic twice in a rowing boat he built himself. Just the act of getting on the little ship and the presenter’s disbelief at the challenge was already laughable. The comedian breaks through the formality and televised hypocrisy to display comic skepticism. But the report also did not work as they had initially planned. In order to sail they needed to tow her, and once they started the operation, they realized that they had forgotten to put the recording equipment on top of the bigger boat to track Buenafuente more closely and accurately walking around with that little sea artifact. And they integrated the production disaster into the narrative of the report: “We didn’t coordinate well and we should have gotten our cameras into the boat before towing it and now they’re going around to see if we can get on… “. The music accentuated that absurd moment, and we were shown from a distance to Buenafuente sailing in circles on top of a very uncomfortable boat. Then everything went from bad to worse. There was a small collision, there were nerves and moments of a certain chaos that were incorporated into the story. yourselves is the perfect example of intergenerational collaboration on television. You don’t have to Zenit strive to find the singer who unites the different generations. Even if Buenafuente only knows how to make a plastic chicken moan, he may be the best consensus figure in the country.
Mònica Planas Callol is a journalist and television critic
Source: www.ara.cat
