(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.

(LAUGH)

Welcome to laughter yoga.

(LAUGH)

What's up, honey? Look at your man. Now look at me.

Now to your man. Now to me.

I went to the funeral home.

I know it doesn't start off well, but then it picks this up.

What are you laughing at?

I laugh, how is the world, almost everything.

Has our sense of humor changed?

Lately, we are surprised too much.

Before, things that were funny to us,

now they would be politically incorrect.

Life is imperfect and I think humor

and comedy must be imperfect.

What are you laughing at?

(LAUGH)

This helps you lift that morale and think in a different way.

Does laughter cure? No, no.

I don't even like the name of laughter therapy.

What is promised is not endorsed by scientific evidence.

It is used as therapy, to earn money or increase productivity.

No Yes.

From being burned to being happy working.

It has totally changed.

-I don't want to wear a muzzle. I don't wear a muzzle, I'm not a dog.

"Between how much and how much do you charge for a gig?".

Between 50 and maybe

3,000 for a company ticket.

What sells the most? Politics.

Do politicians sell more

What about the nudes? Well, yes.

But in comedy anything goes?

Personally, I think not. There must be a limit.

The problem is not the topic, but how you approach that topic.

Wasn't anyone offended? A lot of people were offended.

The comedian never has to offend for the sake of offending.

-"Humor is transgressive, it should be because if not, it is not humor".

you laugh at your jokes

and you even have a ranking."The one with the explosive woman".

"People wrote to me offended because I had not been offended."

"Humor to the limit", in "Commando actualidad".

(ALL) Oh, oh. oh oh

(laughs)

("Make'em Laugh," Donald O'Connor)

Humor is increasingly in demand

as therapy to help our health.

The latest of these trendy practices is called laughter yoga,

whose ambassador in our country and Ibero-America is

living here in Granada.

(TAKE A DEEP BREATH)

("Make'em Laugh," Donald O'Connor)

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

Javier, this is what is known as laughter yoga,

and you practice it every morning.

Indeed.

Welcome to laughter yoga.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

What better way to start the day

what laughing? Well, laughter yoga is a unique method

invented by a doctor, Dr. Madan Kataria, from India,

for which we can all laugh without reason, without reason,

no need for humor, jokes, comedy...

Even people who lack a sense of humor

they can laugh and benefit from laughter yoga.

behind you have created

your own dome to teach.

Indeed.En el patio de tu casa.

Indeed, in the garden.

(laughs)

People have come from Hong Kong,

from South Korea, USA...

Are those boys coming to class now?

Yes, they are high school students, from the third year of ESO.

Ho ho. Ha ha.

Ho ho. Ha ha.

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.

Ho ho. Ha ha.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

-Wait.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(ALL) Very good, very good. Yes!

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

Go for it.

(laughs)

-That we collided.

(laughs)

What does laughter yoga do for you? You're having a good time.

Well, it makes you laugh.

And it brings you peace of mind

because when you finish it, you stay calmer and happier.

-I am the tutor of the group.

But the initiative comes from Nati,

who is our partner.

That she is no longer in the center because she retired.

I tell you, we have a European project at the center,

and we based it on the theater.

So this group, for example, is this year's theater group.

Realize that, for example, they are a generation that have lived

Two years with this. It has taken away expressiveness from the face.

And the smile is something very important, for example, in a theater.

I think it can help you.

I am a nurse. It is very easy to make a child laugh.

In fact, many clowns are taken to the hospital,

He takes people to sing, the children laugh,

and they bear their illnesses better.

But it's hard for us adults,

I don't know if it's the fear of ridicule.

What is the difference with laughter therapy workshops

Or with what "clowns" do in hospitals?

Well, let's say laughter therapy, clowns, monologues...

they work from humor,

while laughter yoga directly

to the center, which is to laughter.

And we connect with our laughter

and we let it come out from the inside out.

Do you charge for these classes?

Well here I am not charging anything.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(laughs)

We are NGO.

Galician Association of Holistic Therapies.

And we are present in many centers,

in almost all Spanish prisons

and from other countries.

Look, let's do the practice. You are still young,

but let's imagine you have a car

and the Civil Guard has fined you.

We take the complaint

and we laugh pointing to the fine.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

four points.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

600 euro.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(laughs)

Oh, a little order.

Javier, you have made this dome with your own hands.

Yes, it's a category five dome.

For example, here we can see a pentagon.

We can also see hexagons.

We can see rhombuses.

Then, the greater number of geometric figures,

So more complexity.

I love working with energy.

So this is sacred geometry.

If you don't charge from Estonian of most kinds,

What do you live on? Well, I'm a military man.

So...Military?

Indeed.

I changed my job

to be air traffic controller, teacher

in the Army,

and now I dedicate myself to...

to teach laughter yoga. But what a change.

(laughs)

A change... a necessary change.

Change needed.

That is, with my profession, which I adored,

I reached a state of very high stress.

You are a professor at the university of yoga.

It is not a regulated university.

Everything new always starts from the private.

Welcome.

This is another group, isn't it?

Yes, this is a slightly younger group than the previous one.

(laughs)

Welcome. Let's go there. Hey.

(LAUGH)

You already know, that they have already come before.

Because I see that they are practicing. Sure.

Of course, we are already experts in this.

Where are they from? Do they come from Granada?

From Granada capital.

What are you laughing at?

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

Mario, well, I present to you Eva, leader of laughter yoga and doctor.

And, well, it's wonderful to have health professionals

like her here, in laughter yoga.

-It is a therapy that I think I should do

all the people who feel bad.

All the people who think that life no longer makes sense.

Because? because laughing

we get the endorphins,

happy hormones.

Then change the point of view.

Do you apply this laughter yoga therapy too?

I recommend it to my patients.

What is this for?

To feel happy with yourself.

And then, well, mentally it helps you

to laugh a little at everything, at everything.

Everything we are going through, that our morale is coming down,

Well, this helps you lift morale

and to think differently.

-Dr. Kataria, well, he always says

that we do not laugh because we are happy,

but we are happy because we laugh.

We have a photo of Dr. Katarian.

This is your leader.Madan Katarian.

He is the founder of laughter yoga.

He has a face...

Crazy important, huh? You say it.

(laughs)

You say it, if I say it, I look bad.

It's reality, it seems...

With all my love for him and no offense intended,

but it has... Someone has told me.

He has a face...Maquiavélica.

(LAUGH)

Go for it. Inspira.Vientre para fuera.

expires. Belly in.

Come on, crash.

(laughs)

Now we are going to give ourselves

a handshake

We share a laugh.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(laughs)

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.Ho ho. Ha ha.

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.Ho ho. Ha ha.

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.Ho ho. Ha ha.

(LAUGH)

This is like the rallying cry, isn't it?

What exactly is this?

What is this scream?

The connection with the smiling warrior.

You can't be ridiculous, I mean,

it's about... isn't it?

The first class you do feel ridiculous.

In the first session you feel ridiculous.

You even think: "I don't come anymore

because I'm making a fool of myself." But for yourself.

Then, when you're done, you say, "I don't miss a single one."

(laughs)

(LAUGH)

(LAUGH)

Nati, this is your sister, who has a disability.

You bring it to these workshops. Of course.

To this laughter yoga.

It's not that he brings her, he asks me.

She asks me that Javier go to the center to pick her up.

and asks me to do laughter yoga.

(ALL) Ho ho. Ha ha.Jo, jo.

Ja, ja. Ho ho. Ha ha.

I have fibromyalgia and also severe fibromyalgia.

So that conditions your quality of life a lot.

And, to be honest, I am improving all levels a lot.

I manage to sleep a little bit better. Not much, but...

respiratory capacity,

facing things differently.

The chip has changed.

Do you also have any ailments?

Yes, just like Alicia, I suffer from fibromyalgia.

I used to be a slightly more serious person

and not now, I see everything...And also, I laugh...

I laugh fast.

And that, perhaps, you have no reason.

I mean, with your body aching

at all hours of the day...Yes.

The normal thing is to take it as a drama. Like what it is,

as I have been taking it for many years.

With great sadness.

So, now we are going to take the opportunity to let out

the last laughs that are out there guarded.

Come on, let's let them out.

Already.

(LAUGH FORCEDLY)

(laughs)

("Make'em Laugh," Donald O'Connor)

Article 20 of our Constitution guarantees

freedom of expression, although the application

of the Citizen Security Law or the Gag Law

It has led to the condemnation of several artists

since it came into force in 2015.

This law is currently pending repeal.

by the Government. Meanwhile,

how is it affecting our comedians?

Does making humor have its risks?

we got on stage

with one of the great comedians of our country.

He has been making us laugh for 30 years.

("Make'em Laugh," Donald O'Connor)

Hello, Jose.Hello, Silvia.

What's up? You've started...

(LAUGHING) Here we are. Ok, that's it.

You have started the third season of your monologue

"First of all, be very calm." Correct.

What do you tell people in this play?

Basically what I do is laugh at myself.

and laugh at all the people around me,

of my family, of my wife, of my son, of my mother,

from my sister... They already know.

I told them, "I'm going to laugh at all of you."

Because it is also the best way so that no one is offended either,

which is one of the things that happens today with comedy.

because if someone is offended

because I mess with my mother, I'll tell her: "My mother doesn't take it the wrong way."

You have nothing left, just 45 minutes to get on stage.

yes.can we come with you to see

How does José Corbacho prepare? Of course.

Let's see, where are we going now? We cross the stalls

because now in this theatre, as in many in Spain,

Several shows are programmed. Ah.

So now they're riding in front of the scenery

of "Escape room", because the typical scenery

that we monologists wear, that we are much more austere.

They have given me a sofa because, at some point,

I already have an age and I feel and such. Jose, do you feel free

to make humor today?

Well, look, precisely, I'm going to tell you one thing.

I believe that theaters, like this one we are in,

and for the people who do humor,

it's becoming a bit of a redoubt

of freedom. Here I am in a monologue context.

I can be more or less a hooligan,

scoundrel, transgressor, white...

Regardless, right?

But if you take out of context a phrase that I have said here

because, perhaps, someone from the public such

and you throw it to a place where someone reads it at home,

you are taking it out of context.

I think that is what happens in the networks.

Humor, comedy or creation, in general,

we should all be clear

that it has to be absolutely free.

And then from there

so let everyone do what they want.

It's easy to punish comedians,

comedians. Not going to see them at the theater,

turning off their tv shows,

not reading their books or magazines...

It is not necessary either that, on top of that, we want to stone them

and that we say: "I am going to denounce it".

Well, it's like going to a restaurant,

You don't like it and you denounce the cook.

Now, it's clear. Not coming back is enough.

Here.

Have you seen this? Oh, the ins and outs of the theater.

The ins and outs, what they call the scenes.

Let's see, come here.

And then we already went down to the dressing rooms.

And this is where humor is managed.

It opens and more laughter.

More pressure.

Well, where is José Corbacho's dressing room?

Well, actually I don't have. I can put myself here.

This one is empty. But I don't have because that's what he told you

of the monologists. We are getting used to

to the minimum expression. We come,

we take a microphone, we go on stage and that's it.

Imagine, for me alone.

I already have enough.

And now what does José Corbacho do?

How do you prepare minutes before going out?

Well, actually, as always,

I like to review mentally a little.

Because since I don't have a closed script either,

but I have there like some blocks of the monologue

that sometimes also depends on how they work,

I'm moving them and such. I'm reviewing them.

Jose, in the Congress of Deputies they are now in circles

with the repeal of the Gag Law for which they have been convicted

artists like the singer of Def con Dos

or the tweeter Casandra Vera for exaltation

of terrorism. Can you make humor out of everything?

I have always been in favor of making humor out of everything.

Yes, yes, I think we have to...

You have to make humor with everything and everything.

And then there is that...

in which that humor can be funny,

it may not do it, it may be bad humor,

it can be a bad joke, it can be in bad taste

but, in the end, I believe that humor is a defense of the human being.

Have you been sued for a joke?

No, the truth is that they have not sued me.

Sometimes I have had problems in programs that I have worked on,

on television networks.

There are people who have called me at the office

and he told me such and such.

There are people who, in the Congress of Deputies,

precisely, speaking of the Gag Law,

who says atrocities greater than a humorist,

and they don't have the excuse of comedy,

trying to make someone laugh, even if it's an audience

very minority who can be amused by what he has done.

Have you been censored at work?

Yeah man.

I have worked in many places where we have written a script

and they have said: "This gag is not recorded".

"You do not do this. This is not broadcast."

And it's part of the game.

Humor and comedy is something alive, it is something

that continues to evolve and for this reason,

when we talk about the famous limits of humor,

It's tricky because those limits can change.

At any time. Where is the limit of humor

for José Corbacho? For me there shouldn't be

limits in humor. There are none.

For me the only limit that humor has, probably,

is to make someone laugh.

Thank you.

How are you? Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. Hey, what are you laughing at?

What makes you funny? First, from myself.

That's good, it's very healthy. It's the most important thing.

And after, anything, practically.

And what things do you not like?

Damn, it's good.

-Don't talk about work.

(LAUGH)

Let's leave it.

-Lack of sensitivity.

The lack of empathy.

Do you think our sense of humor has changed?

as society?

Yes I think so.

Before, things that made us laugh

now they would be politically incorrect.

Do you think that in comedy anything goes?

that you can make jokes about anything?

I think so.

Lately we get too offended by everything.

Do you think that humor is worth anything?

Personally, I think not, there has to be a limit.

Hello!

Come those palms!

Look what a rhythm! Everybody rise, come on!

Everybody on your feet applauding!

Come on guys!

Stand up, with joy! No, don't fall.

Come on, come on, come on!

I went to the funeral home...

I know it doesn't start off well, but then it picks this up.

I went to the funeral home because he had died

the father of a friend. And I went to a funeral home in Hospitalet,

It is on the Gran Vía. Turn on the light for a moment.

Is there someone from Hospital in the room?

There are always people from Hospitalet.

Watch out for the wallets next door.

(laughs)

An old lady appears.

"Oh, what an illusion that you have come."

"My husband was a big fan of yours."

"I saw you with Buenafuente on TV3".

And I: "Oh, very good."

He says: "Do you want to take a picture with him?"

And me: "Okay."

(laughs)

He took my arm, began to lead me there,

where was the one who was my fan.

Also, how old ladies take you.

It seems that they have done Greco-Roman wrestling.

(laughs)

And the lady tells me: "Get over here."

"Here, on the glass. Get down."

"Get down".

"Hook up, let the two of you be seen."

(laughs)

Do you know when you go to the aquarium and take a picture there to...

make it look like the shark is next door?

Well, the same, but with a cuttlefish in there.

("Everybody Needs Somebody")

Thank you so much!

Be happy and take care.

(Applause)

Congratulations Jose.

How does one feel after an hour and a half in front of the public?

Well...

happy. Tired too.

People have laughed a lot tonight.

But what happens when the respectable is not amused

a joke from you? How does a comedian react?

Well, listen when the respectable who, as you say, is the respectable,

You don't like one thing, you have to change, go for another.

And, well, if people don't laugh, then you try

take them back to the dark side of laughter.

("Feeling Good," James Brown)

Are we a self-critical country?

How do comedians deal with offense?

In Spain there are hundreds of places where every night

stand-up comedians border the limits of humor.

("Feeling Good," James Brown)

Hello, is it possible? Hello.

What's up? I'm sneaking into a bar

of stand-up stand-ups mounted by stand-up stand-ups.

Yes, yes, that's all.

What are you three?

And why some comedians who dedicate themselves to humor?

Do you decide to open a bar so that people come to do monologues?

Well, in part, to act ourselves too.

Así tenéis asegurado el sitio.Indeed.

Because it's complicated.

And because also the scene... Many times we acted

in theaters, it's hard to get comedy specific sites

and few opportunities are given to people who, perhaps,

well it's starting

Or people who don't have so many names

like those that fill up in Gran Vía.

Are you humor professionals? Yes.

Since how long?

I less time. I am an engineer and three years ago

I quit work and started to dedicate myself to this.

Good. Yes.

Nacho. Me, 20 years old.

-I have been a professional for three years. Three years.

I had a first attempt at 19 years old.

I came to Madrid and said: "I'm not funny."

And I went back to Albacete.

And then, after spending 10 years, I returned to Madrid,

I have been in Madrid for six years and three years as a professional comedian.

Is it difficult to break into the world of humor,

be professional about this?-I think right now

It is very difficult. The world of stand-up comedy

He has been in Spain for a long time, with which there are many more people,

there are more comedians and comedians and they do it very well,

and there are not as many opportunities as before,

with what is more difficult.

Hey, how are you doing? What's your name?

Tell me your name.-Fernando.

Who are these?

Well, it's the people who come to try.

To get on stage. They are coming to perform today.

It is in order of arrival.

Anyone who wants to do a monologue can come.

You are the first to arrive, so you can get on.

If I had it ready, maybe.

Whatever it is, it doesn't catch you prepared.

Have you prepared the monologue? -Yes.

Yeah? Is it the first time? No, the second.

You want to live from this, from humor, from doing monologues.

-Yes, exactly.

And is this training or...? Yeah, sure.

This is like going to the gym.

A friend says it a lot. It's coming every day until...

Because apart from proving the jokes, you prove yourself as a comedian.

And do you write the monologues?

Yes, yes. What are you basing it on?

Nothing, in the things that happen to me, in the day to day.

What songs do you play and what songs don't you play?

Man, I play what comes to my mind.

I don't put limits on anything.

Is it your first time today or not? -It's the second time.

Now I do it therapeutic,

to laugh and get out of depression. Really?

I swear. Are you serious?

In February my mother died, in March I left my girlfriend,

and then kicks, kicks, kicks.

I like to laugh and make people laugh. Thank you very much and delighted.

Igualmente.-Thank you.

And another boy here. How are you? -Very good.

-What's your name?-Abdel.

What I do, basically, in my monologues,

In my kind of comedy, it's talk, let's say,

about my origins, my family...

Because I am of Moroccan origin.

Where are the limits? What can't you make humor out of?

Do not cross the line, in quotes.

¿Y dónde está la raya?(laughs)

It's a good question, but... -From the context,

from the moment it is said, from the public to whom you say it,

The way you say it, the tone of your voice...

It depends on so many things. Because, really,

limit need not be depending on the situation.

For example, in social networks there are usually so many controversies

with the limits of humor because in social networks

many times you talk as if i was listening to you

the people who follow you, but anyone can listen to you,

then, at the moment when the audience you are addressing

it's already the whole world,

It is very easy to say something that offends someone.

What I have no right is to ask

that you do not do something because it offends me.

Unless we pass certain...

Unless it's already a direct attack.

(Electronic music)

have you had people

around, a friend or acquaintance,

What did this say about the mask:

"I don't want to wear the muzzle."

"I don't wear a muzzle, I'm not a dog."

Do you have people like that?

And did it not happen to you that it coincides that it is the same people

The one you would have muzzled from the pandemic?

-God is one and triune at the same time.

OK. Do you know this?

That is why the representative of God on earth

He is Argentine, so that he speaks for the three of us.

Those of "Current Command" love this.

Black humor comes from other countries to steal our jokes.

The other day I was reading a Wikipedia article,

You know? Out of curiosity.

And I saw that, apparently, the fences of Ceuta and Melilla

they began to be built in the year 98,

and I was born in 97, just a year before.

I mean, it was when I was born and they said: "Short."

It all started in Morocco 15 years ago.

We were at our family's house,

we were watching tv, suddenly,

my father enters the living room, any given day,

and tells us: "We are going to Spain".

And everyone: "Oh."

And I say, "Dad, where are we going?"

And my father tells me: "We're going to Madrid."

And images of skyscrapers came to my head,

Raúly Zidane's Real Madrid team scoring great goals

and the Iberia plane flying above the clouds.

I do not know. But in the end we got on a ferry

and then we were seven hours on a train

to finish in Villaverde.

(laughs)

My father turns and tells me: "Villaverde is in Madrid

and Madrid is in Villaverde".

It is when I realized that the Moors are scammers

and you can't trust

(laughs)

(Applause)

Let's see, ladies and gentlemen.

It's a move, but you have to go

and those things.-Go to our fucking houses.

We have life. I have a lot of iron.

You will see. No, it's not a joke.

Fernando and Patricia, presenters.

Comedians too. Yes.

We have seen you there.

Are you professionals in this? No, what's up.

No no no.

-We are working on it. What do you do?

I am a teacher, I give support classes to children.

AHA. Fernando.-And I, a programmer.

Can you make a good living today from comedy?

-For performances it is complicated.

And it doesn't just depend on how good you are as a comedian,

but also how you know how to sell yourself.

You have to know how to sell tickets,

you have to "market" your "show", and it's not easy.

Between how much and how much is charged for a gig?

Between 50...

euros, I believe a minimum, that is, the most seedy that can be.

Y, a lo mejor,3,000 for a company ticket.

3,000. We are not talking about the top that, perhaps,

they take 10,000 for presenting an event.

It is what a company can pay.

But at bar level,

If you get 300 euros, it is already very well paid.

Are there topics that cannot be discussed?

I think you can talk about everything.

-As long as you do it with grace, everything.

The problem is that many times, if you try to be a transgressor

and you don't have a good joke, well you stay at that.

You are provoking and people say: "He said a stupid thing."

-To me, in the middle of a performance...

In a restaurant, I remember.

A gentleman who saw him who had been like this all hour.

(laughs)

It had been an hour

and was looking. Let's see if they clap a little loud and I say thank you

and finished. And he gets up and shouts:

"Do you want to shut up already?"

Because I couldn't anymore.

And I say: "Well, I'm done here."

Well, I'm quiet, bye.

Because he just got angry when the hour had passed.

Learned how to boil carrots tonight. My own recipe. #GhettoGourmet

— Billy Suratt Mon Dec 27 04:58:32 +0000 2010

(laughs)

("Another Day Of Sun")

Laughter has become so important in our society

that are even studied and researched at the university.

And it is that behind the sense of humor they can hide

manipulative behaviors, sadism and psychopathy,

above all, on social networks with the so-called trolls.

I don't know if you know

a famous Spanish comedian

that in one of the programs

He even blew his nose with the Spanish flag.

The complaint was for hate crime and insult to the flag.

Was it inappropriate? Don't you have to go through here?

-If there are many people who believe that this offends them a lot, well...

But a study will have to be done.

But I don't think I have...-But look, Sofía

and the rest of the class, the criteria of many people.

Do you remember the Mohammed cartoons?

There was persecution, an attack and so on.

Why? Because the Muslim majority

she was offended.

That is, if it is an attack on the majority

shouldn't that be expressed?

That happened when we were offending

or disrespecting other people and other beliefs.

When someone says things insulting the image of the thing

or of the purest person for us,

It's like talking about our religion

and disrespecting Muslims.

-It's not funny for me.

If you don't like it, isn't it a joke?

And how do I define insult, hate,

homeland, nation, symbols?

So, there is a lot to define.

-And the sexist humor that we women have been dragging

for a long time?

Eight out of ten Spaniards piss themselves with jokes

don't step on what's scrubbed because the woman kills you.

So should we tolerate it? But, instead,

that a man wipes his nose on the flag no.

The tweet about the attack on Cassandra Vera's Carrero Blanco.

Do you agree with the accusation or the acquittal?

It is not the same as saying: "Carrero Blanco dies."

That's not funny.

But if he is able to associate a movie

in which Mario Casassale on a motorcycle

saying: "I love you, Babi", with a terrorist attack,

a person who thinks that is a genius.

-Tomorrow we continue. Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Come on, see you later.

Hugo, what a difficult debate.

Should humor have limits?

It is that by definition, if we concentrate

In the definition of humor, it has no limits.

No longer just because you talk about sensitive topics of black humor

or sexist humor, but by the rules of logic, mental,

that breaks and skips. Humor is transgressive.

It must be transgressive or it is not humor.

But it is true that if he transgresses too much

or if it goes too far, it stops being humor

because it's not funny.

It is one more thing of education and social norm

and if I may

common sense, as I say, civility and empathy,

and another thing is to regulate it judicially

so that the expression of certain contents is penalized and persecuted.

But when you go to court and cause

more commotion or more is written about a joke

that the hundreds of deaths in the Strait,

and where a society capable of writing more

about the inappropriateness of a joke about the inappropriateness

of certain tragedies, says a lot

about the society that we have to live.

For the most part he was totally against limiting.

Even ETA jokes, whether for victims or guilty.

I think that, in the present day,

it's... it's easily censored

or is intended to be easily censored.

I mean, I think we have...

How to say it? Very thin skin, speaking badly.

Because if you look closely, who is not offended by something?

Any program you publish, surely,

if you show a wrong information, to the one you don't want

showing it to him will offend your program.

So "Y" wants to censor "X" and vice versa.

Then we would all end up censored.

And I bet for the plurality,

because each one can express their joke,

express their mood. And you can capture their mood,

support their mood, reinforce that mood,

laugh with that humor, make useful humor,

it doesn't have to be empty.

See you later. Fill up your water bottle,

You've talked a lot today. I love you the same tomorrow.

You get along well with the students. Yes, yes.

psychology professor,

but 20 years studying the sense of humor.

When you proposed it, did they laugh at you?

Man, don't have the slightest doubt.

It has been found that humor has undoubted effects

for coping with adversity,

as a resilience tool,

It has been found that it can be of unquestionable utility

and beneficial for some aspects that have to do with health.

¿El humor cura? Does laughter cure? No, no.

No, no, humor does not cure.

Sounds like a big headline to me.

Do you believe in laughter therapy workshops?

Well, I don't even like the name of the laughter therapy workshops.

Sorry, maybe I have...

If I speak of laughter therapy, what does a therapy entail?

An evaluation, with a diagnosis, a statement of objectives

to follow and see if that is fulfilled.

That is not usually done in laughter therapy.

And what I don't like, apart from the fact that no therapy is done,

is that what is usually promised

It is not supported by scientific evidence.

Hugo, and are there humors that kill?

I mean, under the umbrella of humor

The so-called Internet trolls have been born.

Yes. What's behind

of that personality? Because you have studied that.

Yes Yes.

Well, we have seen that there are different personality profiles

more prone to internet trolling

and that there are certain variables,

which within personality psychology is called

the dark tetrad of personality.

They are Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism...

Is the humor that denigrates always triumphant?

Well, it's the oldest theory.

The oldest theory there is about the sense of humor says

that to know and understand humor we have to detect

Who do we laugh at, who do we humiliate?

and why we humiliate him.

is always good

laugh at oneself? No.

You attack yourself so as not to let them attack you,

but it is not a positive way to laugh at yourself.

Yet other people laugh at themselves,

but it is not an attack... direct, humiliating towards your weaknesses,

but to see how absurd you can be,

the contradictions that you have as a human being,

the little slips... That's the humor,

the laughter of oneself that is very related

with beneficial effects.

Before we leave out the question of whether we are

a country that takes too much offense.

And we are going to connect now with a collaborator of ours,

a good friend who has more reasons

that no one in this world to feel offended,

because I think he has been receiving jokes for 30 years

of a very complicated situation.

Hello Irene. Thank you very much for being with us.

Hi Irene, how are you? How are you?

- "Well, delighted to be with you."

When so many jokes have been made about you,

about what happened to you, do you feel offended?

"Well, notice that no, it's that I...

Frankly, I think a sense of humor helps.

for many, that is, for serotonin,

to... go through hard things,

to overcome also that which seems insurmountable".

"When there are things that hurt you, that bother you, let them laugh...".

"I think that there you have to do a job

you inner. In my case, I have been incredibly lucky.

because at the age of 12 I assimilated something so serious,

that I have never cared that my friends ran away

and me: 'Girls, I don't have legs'".

"'Oh, we forget, it's just that you're so normal

that we forget that you don't have'".

You laugh at your own jokes and you even have a ranking.

"The one with the explosive woman."

"Well, because yes, because I love it."

"That we are bomb-proof, because it is true."

"In other words, how few people have been saved from a car bomb."

"Which more?".

"That I don't step in the pool."

"That's happened to me too. 'Does it cover a lot?'"

"And I... 'Yes'."

"I have no fucking idea what it covers because I can't stand it."

Are we living in difficult times for humor right now?

Are we now a country that takes too much offense?

"Well, totally."

"If we are offended by everything."

"Something very curious happened to me, and it is that they wrote to me offended

because I hadn't been offended."

"In other words: 'It's just incredible that you have the voice of...'".

"But if it doesn't offend me, why do I have to be offended?"

"I think that, well, black humor is for that,

to laugh at things you say... Jo, what a beast".

"But it exists and that's it."

And I wish nobody took things so seriously

because life is not to be taken seriously,

on the contrary, it is better that life deserves laughter,

as my friend Feliciólogo says, not worth it".

"Taking life with humor I think helps in every way,

in all facets of life, even when you are

in the worst stretch of your life, that's where you need to laugh the most

because you are going to need that energy".

("Shake It Off," Taylor Swift)

Politics, monarchy or religion are

some of the thorniest issues when approached from humor,

They know it well in the longest-running satirical magazine in Spain.

Their cartoons have earned them a few lawsuits

at the same time as the visibility that accompanies the controversy.

After 40 years making graphic humor,

Where do you think the limit of humor is today?

("Shake It Off," Taylor Swift)

It lends itself to doing something fun.

But this is a "geek".

Currently manday we can find another theme.

Good morning.

How are you? Guille, here they decide,

in this room you decide what is going to be published

and what is not in the most famous satirical magazine in Spain.

According to what criteria do you choose the contents?

Well, above all, on the cover and the first pages of the magazine

of each week, what is in charge is the news

and also what people talk about. Sometimes,

Today is boring and our task is also

see the funny side or see the relevant side.

Sometimes turn it around, take it to the absurd.

It is our specialty.

We never run out of themes.

This country, Spain, always offers us...

It is a source of raw material for satire.

Hey, who's on this editorial board?

in which we are present? Well look, these minds...

wonderful minds.

Like that of Joan Ferras, our deputy director.

Anabel Rivero, who is a cartoonist

and also coordinates the website of "El jueves".

And Michael, veteran cartoonist, author of "Seguridad Social",

for example, who has been publishing for a few weeks.

-1,600 and peak, yes.-1,600.

My goodness.-1,600, from 90.

To the Spanish, to society, has it changed us?

the sense of humor with respect, for example, to the eighties?

-When they say that the mood has changed

He usually pulls for the thing that now we are most offended

or there are things that cannot be joked about.

And I think...

I think that humor must question what is being laughed at.

Hey, do you mess more with the right than with the left?

Well, the right has some forms and has a...

he keeps more forms, he is more concerned with forms,

So, they are more parodyable.

Well, we are also a more left-wing magazine,

We are progressive and we like left-wing values.

This is the latest issue, the most recent of the magazine.

Exactly. Here we have

to Santiago Abascal, to... Is Pablo Casado?

It's Pablo Casado. And?

And Monastery. Do today's politicians have

less sense of humor or fit criticism worse

through humor, do you think?

I believe that many of them have learned to fight,

never better said,

jokes and such. It is true that it has cost some

but, in general, I think that little by little they have realized

that jokes are jokes and that if they get into this rag,

they come out sheared, usually.

-In addition, I think that satire is a double-edged sword.

You can ridicule a politician but, at the same time,

you can make it close.

What topics are you not talking about today?

If you don't talk about one.

-Well, we don't have any red lines, really.

It's not so much what topics we don't talk about,

but how we talk about according to what topics.

There are some topics that readers ask us

that we document ourselves well.

What are those topics that require more specialization?

Well, issues, for example, discrimination against minorities

or historically disadvantaged groups.

Well, you can't just make any joke, right?

You have to tune more.

To this little character, after drawing it

1,621 pages,

Well, let's say that... You who have been drawing for 40 years,

Do you feel you had more freedom when creating before,

now or the same?

maybe a little less

but for society itself.

Things that did not generate rejection before

or did not create a major problem,

now any detail is magnified in the networks

and there are a lot of people who get really pissed off.

That didn't happen before.

Well here we have the bound magazines, okay?

Oh look.

Let's see, this is a bit...

A little treasure for those who are collectors.

This, which seems like an encyclopedia, and it is,

They are bound "El Jueves" magazines.

Let's see, year... Look. Year 82.

100 pesetas.100 pesetas.

Well, some things have changed.

Do you get less naked, less...?

It is that it is no longer so transgressive. What is it that sells the most?

Well, political news.

Political figures that people dislike,

those who are disliked by readers

because they make them laugh more.

Teasing about these laughable figures is

which gives more recognition and more people who go to the kiosk.

Politicians sell more

than the nudes. Well yes.

Here is the famous rectified cover.

Rectified. In other words, the most famous of all,

the one that surely whoever knows us has in his mind and that...

we are not supposed to publish because they were convicted

their authors. This is the rectification

of the following week, which is a joke

to make fun of...

of the reproach, right? Tell us what it was

the story, not of this cover, but of the previous one.

It was about the baby check that the Zapatero government

He had promised all couples to have children,

regardless of their income, their assets.

Then that was parodied with the princes of Asturias,

Well, making a baby.

The National Court kidnapped... Kidnapped as a precautionary measure.

That is, before settling whether that was insults

to the Crown or what happened to that,

As a precautionary measure, he seized the edition.

In other words, the police went to the kiosks,

he put the numbers of "El Jueves" in a box.

That was "marketing" for the magazine.

Many people remembered "El Jueves" again,

readers bought it again.

We try every week but, hardly, we are going to be able to do

a cover like that. 10 years later you did

this cover, also with Casa Real,

not with the same protagonists, and did something happen here?

Nothing happened.

It is also the same that Urdangarín had enough

and Cristina de Borbón with what they had then

with the media storm that was coming upon them

enough to worry about a joke that isn't that bad either.

Now that 10 years have just passed since the end of ETA,

Exactly. This was your bet.

What response did you get from the public?

Well, well, in general, the whole issue of terrorism,

that we have suffered for many years,

because "Thursday" has always been there

criticizing the situation and criticizing terrorism

how can it be otherwise.

The problem is not the topic, it's how you approach that topic.

When you can laugh at a problem,

It means that it is the first step to overcome that problem.

Politics, monarchy, religion...

You tend to satirize a lot with the Pope.

But the question is, is the red line, today,

is in Islam, after what happened

with "Charlie Hebdo" and the murder that took place

in the French magazine? No.

I think not, I think it can be touched,

criticize Islam, what happens that...

we must understand that the religion in which we have been educated

is not Islam, then that criticism of Islam

It will not be perceived the same if it is done by someone who has nothing to do with it.

with Islam that if it is done by someone who does,

who have been instilled in Islam since childhood,

that is part of his life. I think the nuance is there.

When someone who has nothing to do with Islam

makes an aggressive mood towards Islam,

It can be interpreted as a crusade.

I don't know at what times, such as

on the cover, that we had it here,

of 11-M, of the attacks of March 11,

I don't know if there comes a time when you stay, here it is,

with a circumstantial face in the face of tragedy

and there you can not make jokes of any kind,

as it gives me the feeling that this case was.

Well, it was a dueling cover.

"El Jueves" always makes humor about everything and such,

and that week...Sometimes humor has no place.

And how have you been throughout the past year?

Well, the year or so that we have been dealing with the issue of the pandemic.

Here we have one of the covers. The thing was not there either.

to be funny. Of course, this too...

Irony and humor. It was also a drama.

I put this cover a little at the same level

that, in a way, of human drama,

For different reasons, obviously.

but it is also a cover of mourning,

of improvement, of celebration of values,

of the public health force as a service

and as salvation.

How do you get the balance

between humor and offense?

Any joke is going to offend someone.

If something offends you, then count to 10,

realize that it is nonsense, if it is a joke,

and to something else.

("Smile," Nat King Cole)

stop taking work so seriously

it can make workers perform better in the office.

That's what a study from Stanford University says,

that ensures that the bosses that encourage laughter

improve the productivity of companies by up to 50%.

("Somewhere Over The Rainbow")

This is you, Miguel, the head of an important company

of publicity here, in Spain, which meets with multinationals,

And that it's smeared in peanut butter,

whiskers, eyebrows and head.

How important is humor in a company?

For us it is, let's say, the philosopher's stone

on which we have built all our work.

It is the center of...What makes it possible

to be working on something like this,

which is something very ethereal, make sense

because you're having a good time.

You are a company of people and two dogs.

This is how you define yourself. A group of people.

A group of people and two dogs.

Sometimes there have been three dogs, four.

Sometimes just one. But there have always been dogs

because they help us a lot. There you have it.

There you have it, that's your friend. It helps me relativize.

When you have an email that someone sends you

with a not entirely good energy,

you turn around and he can be

taking a nap with the eggs in the air.

(laughs)

And gives peace of mind. Gives peace of mind.

Seeing him rest somehow tells me

that the "mail" is not important.

Are the companies that use the cloak of seriousness wrong?

Let's see, not as much as being wrong. They are losing opportunities.

To be wrong not because they are there.

What I think is that they are losing opportunities

because humor is a vehicle that takes things to another level.

The boss's office is surrounded

of hams They're all fake, right?

I wish they were real, right? No, no. We think about it

but they couldn't be because of the smell.

This is what you used your first contact

with customers. There will be some who negotiate

leading to a great restaurant, but you say: the first time

I see you offer you a pan with chocolate cream.

Yeah, well, it has a part to do with setting up a game, doesn't it?

I don't know, I think it's something

That has a lot to do with being a bit of a child, right?

With that childish nostalgia of when you are creative

and you relate in a better way.

Well, it seems that we are looking in that motto "Being happy is much cooler",

bringing chocolate sandwiches to meetings makes sense.

As it has a narrative translation

that it means to us, that it gives us as a singularity,

We're different. Go ahead.

Me too? Man, man.

What hand do you have?

Miguel, who is he?

The contracting party is half of the party.

My partner. What do you value when hiring?

-Well, well, we have always said that valuation is

by meritocracy when it comes to arriving and seeing those profiles they have.

Now, there is a variable that counts a lot,

which is the "feeling" that gives you as a person.

In other words, when you see someone you say:

"Well, he has a cloud on him", does not give you good vibes.

I mean, that's a priority.

According to scientific studies, bosses that encourage laughter

improve the productivity of their companies

up to 50%.

Do you believe it? It seems a bit bullshit to me,

the truth, that is, when it comes to arriving and saying...

I mean, you can't live on laughter.

Another thing is that starting from the basis of professionalism,

Obviously, the fact that there is a good atmosphere,

the one that the atmosphere is pleasant,

that is, totally, it would have to improve productivity.

That you are burned, that you are happy working,

that you feel that the person next to you is helping you,

You want to help the next door, change.

Miguel, a lot of prizes

also mixed with toys.

Or what is this? Well, it's the same.

(LAUGH)

Are you doing important things? -Yes.

Right now there is a million-dollar contract

and we are with the interview and it is pending by a thread.

You paid for a trip to the entire staff from here,

more than 50 people,

to what is known as the Burning Man, a festival

where more than 70,000 people go, in the Nevada desert,

including the heads of Facebook, Google,

very important people. Creatives, artists...

Were you there, at Burning Man?

Yes. And how impressive was it?

Man, that was amazing. A dream come true.

We were the companions in a space where...

I never would have thought to be with them.

That's not you over there, is it? Yes.

Is that you? Yes.

Your workforce.

-We came back very close. It was like we were

a year or a couple of years quite close.

Then he created like a big family.

Were they vacation days?

No, they were work days.

Were those work days? They didn't count as vacations.

Humor in advertising.

More than 90% of consumers

they prefer funny ads

and they stay 58% more,

according to the analyses,

in the heads of consumers, viewers.

Is it true? Is humor so powerful?

in advertising? I think so, right?

If you want to remember it, make it fun.

Does humor go viral?

Completely.

Because it is a sensation that you want to give to your loved ones.

If it made you feel good,

You send it to them so they feel good.

What's up, honey? Look at your man. Now look at me.

Now to your man. Now look at me.

I'm sorry, he's not me. Absurd humor

that manages to save a company

of ruin.

Use humor for them

It was like: hey, how do I get out of a place where the mark was,

that was reviled, forgotten, how do I bring it

to current cultural relevance and I do it with a thread

where humor is the protagonist of the strategy. I mean,

which is key There is a campaign that I love ours,

which is this campaign. You are creating a Santa Claus.

Yes, but it was part of understanding that there was a game where

the Three Wise Men commissioned us to carry Santa Claus.

-"I am from the wise men.com has sent me

a Santa Claus to make him voodoo".

"Where have we come to?"

# "Wise Men, Magi Kings".

# "The three clothed# with gold and fur." #

Wasn't anyone offended? A lot of people were offended.

What are the limits of humor?

I believe that humor should have no limits, for me.

(Kobe Bryan Legacy, King Lil G)

(MAN) When I tell you good humor, one word

or at most two that sound familiar to you

or that you can associate with a good mood.

-Happiness happiness.

-Jokes.-Jokes.

-Laughter.-Jusking.

You do not work in this company.

-No, no, no. They called us.

We are dedicated to generating labor well-being.

-We all have to come to work, we all have crooked days,

Well, we can straighten them, if we want,

or twist them more, it's a personal choice.

Let's start with this game.

Slowly. You will see how important it is

listen and then respond. And we are going to play with this.

I, for example, tell you like this. Yes.

And I send you like this.

Now you would answer me the opposite.

With the hand. That is, I say yes.

-No.-Well, it's the opposite.

-No Yes.

-No.

-No.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.-No.

(laughs)

Why does a recycling company have a day like this?

Well, well-being is important in a company

because, really, we spend a third of our lives working.

If we start in a bad mood, we spend the rest of the day

blocked, nothing works for us.

It is not good for us, first, nor for the company.

How many people work here? In this company?

Well now we will be almost 100 people.

Almost 100? Yes.

They say that if there is a good mood at work,

productivity increases. Sure.

October.

-Hey...

(laughs)

-March August.

-April.

How are you doing? What does this give you?

How do you feel? -Very good, really.

You create more bond than there is.

If you are happy, do you work better, do you work more?

Man, sure, you get more involved.

-I have been in the sector for eight years. Before that I was in another company.

A semi-public company, with a fixed contract,

but... what we are talking about was missing,

the good humor was missing, the good vibes

at work.

I voluntarily left the company

because it came to affect me emotionally

me and my environment.

Toxicity, lack of companionship,

very bad atmosphere, so...

there comes a time when you enter a spiral

What's beyond you, right?

And I had to do a little like we've done in the game,

say: "You have to make a decision now".

You left a permanent job. Yes.

How old, may I ask?

Well, at 56 years old.

What I value most is how my life has changed.

My son is 15 years old, who lives with me,

and he tells me: "Dad, now at home you laugh."

Well congratulations.

Thank you for telling us about it.-Deserves applause.

(Applause)

Rafa, what is the OPALO program?

OPALO is an acronym for Work Attitude Optimization

in the Organizations.

And from that program we work

for labor well-being, sustainable in companies.

Normally, because we work with a six-month company

to one year, doing continuous activities

so that, in the end, labor welfare

So come for real.

This program, OPALO, has been created by you.

Yes. I don't know if there is a scientific basis

or how you created it.

I have advisors who are...

They are psychologists or psychologists, they are biologists, biochemists...

I base myself a lot on science but also, above all,

in experience, in my personal experience.

I have also suffered episodes of "mobbing".

I also have...

Managers who, perhaps, felt threatened when he arrived

because they said: "This person is more prepared".

They tripped me. So I've been learning.

Between how much and how much can that hiring be

What does a company do to services like this that are offered?

This day, then, comes to leave

around between 1,500, 2,000 euros.

Carlos, very good. Good.

An actor doing what you were doing now.

Yes. That is also recycling.

Yes, mental recycling, never better said.

We want people to enjoy and have a good time.

We are not going to do this roll

a pedagogy so that you understand humor or anything.

Because you can't force anything.

Know? If you explain it and put exercises into practice,

as we have seen now, that even the directors here

were present, a communication has been created with all

long time ago

It had not been seen. But there is space.

And if there is not, we create it for a good mood.

One two three four five six,

seven, eight, nine, ten.Okay.

What happens? If you don't put your back right,

rehabilitation will not go well.

Now grab the bar and walk.

Little by little. Are you doing better in rehabilitation?

-Don't believe it.

(laughs)

-You told me before

that you were better, and now, in front of everyone,

Are you telling me that your low back pain is worse?

-I want to quit.

(laughs)

- Cut.

("Je Veux", Zaz)