translated from Spanish: Pachu Peña: “With humor we evolve for good as a society”

Pachu Peña was one of the stars of Argentine humor who was best able to take advantage of television. Today, becoming a meme for its endearing temptations, it can be said that it is also one of the public figures who managed best to settle on social media. In the middle of all this social media maelstrom, Pachu became the new guest of Caja Negra, the interview cycle of Filo.news conducted by Julio Leiva.Of course, the question to break the ice is that: how did you get that love from the Internet? “I have a very good relationship with the people of Twitter, which is where they write to me the most and where I respond the most… I don’t know where it goes, it’s many years. I think humor is always welcome, showing me as one more, like them, that’s good. To be simple, transparent and I think it also has to do with last year’s lockdown that was hard. With the pandemic, many people turned to nets to look for humorous things and there was a rediscovery of many young people who did not have me, Pichu, or Paul. There was a rediscovery, that’s the reading I make,” he replies. And now, about his laughter, he explains: “I’ve always been tempted, sometimes I made notes and I didn’t laugh, but there were others who did. Today I sometimes do papers and you saw when you don’t believe it, you can’t lack it… I laugh at myself. The temptations were in Unencoded Danger.” Like almost everyone else, we always end up odding something to our family. In Pachu’s case, his nickname himself: “It was for a French film that my old lady had seen in Rosario. There was a baby and I was just like that baby. It was the same for my mother. The baby was Pachuli, Pachuli, Pachuli, then Pachuli remained, then there was a cut and Pachu remained.” In his childhood and adolescence, in addition to going to school with Fito Páez, tanning music, film and working as a cadet in the company of a friend of his father’s, he was very, but the ideologologist of those jodas: It was more to give ideas and that the others execute them, because he was quite shy. The others did it and the warnings, the expulsions were smogued because of me.” On their foray into Buenos Aires, he details that they tried a hidden camera next to the Teto Medina: “We are going to take it to Marcelo Tinelli, we came to Buenos Aires, Marcelo or ball. Well, let’s go to the front door, go to Mario Pergolini. They loved it, and they called us to do cameras, we started doing things on Sunday show, do it for me. Pablo just released the album nationally, and the distributor arranges with Telefe what the promotion is, and Mario didn’t like it. Paul told me I’m leaving, you stay.” What I really liked were the notes we made on the street… that made us well known in Videomatch, we made parodies, then we started with poetry, everything we came up with. In people’s memory there are the poetry, models and sports in the memory, of those videomatch fans of before,” he continues. “Everything was achieved, it was terrible. We showed up at an elephant in the middle of Little Yrigoyen, in Congress. I was on top of the elephant and it starts to take speed, there were a lot of people. I wanted to get off. Besides, you never know how an animal is going to react.” On the other hand, Pachu confesses that he is ashamed, but that when the camera turns on, that shame disappears: “When the camera came on and you knew that people had fun at night and thanked you, it’s not that you didn’t care about anything. but well, you were going out to play.” Who also knew how to spread on social media in a unique way was Migue Granados, son of his friend Pablo. It was a little bird of prey, we were around while Paul was trying to make a staging, I was giving Migue money to go and buy some. Then in Unencoded we really enjoyed it.” Of course, Unencoded Danger was one of the most glorious stages in Pachu’s career and, of course, has an explanation: “We had incredible freedom, it was a wonderful time. It was hard to see Yayo laugh, but with me he laughed a lot. Very nice working with him, very funny, made me laugh a lot because he insulted me, yelled at me and tempted me a lot.” Obviously, there could be no need for an anecdote: “We are hired because we were new figurines, of Santa Fe. We arrive and have a routine that always works. But they didn’t laugh here, we couldn’t get them in. Yayo grabs the microphone and says, ‘Hello pretty people, to all of you who don’t laugh and especially for you, moustache, don’t laugh, you with…’. Sometimes I don’t know if people are afraid to laugh, they were all in suits, I think I was passing by.” But, one of the best in the mood, he also has to rub shoulders with one of the best footballers in history – not to mention the best – Lionel Messi. “We know the familia with Paul from Many years ago, from Rosario. We have an anecdote about when we went to cover the champions in Berlin, Barcelona-Juventus. We couldn’t believe it, we were with a precarious camera. The game was over and we went looking for the players for Unencoded Danger. There was all the means, they were running at me. Messi came out, didn’t give anyone a ball, came straight with me and they all froze.  Then, once, we went to cheer on the national team before the World Cup in Brazil, and we finished, thanked them and they came looking for us to take pictures with them. We couldn’t believe it.” One of the questions that comedians do or do go through is what happens to humor; how it changes according to social demands and whether it is necessary to have a limit. Pachu responds clearly: “We evolved for good as a society, and that’s fine, because maybe you hurt someone inadvertently, not realizing it because it was another kind of humor that was consumed. I feel good, not only to make humor but when it comes to talking you have to be careful. If you miss anything today, the nets will shoot you.” Towards the end of the interview, the box opens. An unexpected challenge begins. Week by week a figure will submit to the living room for dialogue and reflection. And you, are you encouraged to remember what moment clicked on your life?
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