Almost 20 years have passed since ‘El Hormiguero’ A hole was made for the first time in the television From our country and, since then, the faithfulness of its audience has been won. Its presenter and creator, Pablo Motoshas had a lot to do with the success of this format, although also the humor of its recurring collaborators, among which are faces as well known as Jorge Brown, Juan Ibáñez and Damián Molla.
However, in recent times we have seen how the humor passed to the background when raising the ants program to give way to a most political and current space. This, in fact, was one of the reasons that catapulted the exit of what was one of his best known screenwriters, the humorist Jesús Manzanowhich said goodbye a few years after nine seasons in the Antena 3 program.
In a recent interview for The podcast rockanrollasthe comedian has talked about how the work environment has been, including some aspects such as censorship. And, as revealed by the former worker of the Pablo Motos program, the Ves on television to certain themes and nameseven in humor, they are a reality that he knows very well.
A former speech of ‘El Hormiguero’ talks about censorship on television
When asked about jokes who have not seen the light during their years on Antena 3, Jesús Manzano has explained that he has suffered in more than one occasion censorship in his monologues: «On television they censor you all the time. You give the script of your monologue and tell you that You can’t say it because a brand appears or a name of someone who is possible guest of ‘El Hormiguero’. They tell you ‘this famous either because he is my friendhere you say swear words, this is a bit sexist, this racist … ‘», the comedian said.
For the one who was a screenwriter of ‘El Hormiguero’, dealing with something like that in his work was not simple, because he had to look for humor that would not hurt any audiences: «They take away everything and they tell you ‘the rest yes’and that is that The rest is not funny. Once I told Pablo Motos de Coña ‘you tell me that he writes what is not funny and I pass it to you because The funny thing you have taken it‘», He recalled with laughter.
The joke of Jesús Manzano who was about to cost 300,000 euros to Antena 3
Manzano has said that, on one occasion, a brand came to threaten to break his advertising contract to Atresmedia after one of his monologues, which was about to cost him his position: «There was a coordination failure Because I made a monologue in which a joke was made on this brand and approved it. That same day, the one who reviewed the script for the last time, labeled it and wrote that, Instead of saying the brand, saying something genericbut they didn’t tell me, ”he explained in the podcast.
The screenwriter did not read the notes that had left him and did not know about these changes until after the program: «As I had approved … This had never happened to me. Until they approve it, they change things, but as it was already approved, because I was so happy. I didn’t even read it because I knew it by heart and a fat», He has revealed when talking about this mess.
It was when I got on the writing to take his things when he learned what had happened thanks to Jandro. It turns out that the brand in question had called to see the joke: «They told me that direction they wanted to talk to meI went little. They started ‘But if we crossed out, did you not read it?’ And they told me they had threatened With removing Atresmedia as 300,000 euros»He has revealed.
Despite the problem that caused, from ‘El Hormiguero’ they only had to Remove the social networks monologue and from the Antena 3 page, so he did not have much impact for him on a professional level: «In the end The address behaved well with mePablo Motos and Jorge Salvador told me ‘Do not do it again, read the script’. I spent a bad week», Manzano said.
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