Our Admiration to those Making People Laugh, especially Pepe Rubianes

There are some people in life that turn out to be extremely important though often involuntarily forgotten. These are those making other people laugh and thus improving their happiness, our hapiness. Such as most Catalan baby boomers as ourselves, we grow up listening to Eugenio “saben aquel que diu”,…and Pepe Rubianes mimicking the sound of a “discreet fart”. The first one, Eugenio passed away few years ago but he is not forgotten. In fact, just yesterday we listened to a few jokes he explained in 1999 at the famous club “Luz de Gas”. We were in our place with Dario and Issa ( our Mexican friends) and we could not refrain to talk about the man, how he was and how important he was. Mariona and Marc were there as well, patient to Eugenio’s recorded voice, and laughing as we always do regardless of havibg listended him many times. We still laugh at the same jokes once and again, must be a sort of disease. Other explanantion point towards some sign of respect, as well as emorional loyalty to the memory of Eugenio’s sense of humour, just thinking of “saben aquell,…”- mixing both Catalan and Spanish languages at a time-, its extremely funny to us, difficult to fully explain.

Besides Eugenio, another reference to us is Pepe Rubianes. He has managed to maintain a play named “ Rubianes solamente” for about ten years now (aprox),....he loves using slang, taking the piss out of Spanish rightwingers, and let face itm thanks to him, we have realised that insults in general feel stronguer in Spanish compared to other languages including Catalan( one reason more to maintain the language besides Latinamerica and the Basque Country). Just thinking of Rubianes saying " hijos de la grandísima puta" is a worthwhile spectacle ( if you click to the upward link you will be able to hear his voice in site) .Yesterday, he received a famous award, an award in the memory of Preich ( a former Catalan artist) that he deserves this by far! But as often is the case, its difficult to be loved and not hated. The Spanish francoist bastards of the PP party and the nationalistic association called “Fundación para la Defensa de la Nación Española” have initiated a personal campaign against him, without thinking for aminute that this equals a campaign against ourselves, our memory and our view of life. Pepe is in our thoughts as if the nationslistic Spanish bastards would attempt to attack us. In the meantime, one way through is to repeat what he said in the program el club of the Catalan TV referring to the Spanish francoist :

"Que es fotin Espanya al puto cul a veure si els exploten els ous"; "se'n vagi a la merda la puta Espanya" o "se'n vagin a prendre pel cul aquests espanyols". "No pot venir un paio de Conca cagant-se en l'Estatut perquè aquí hi viu mig Conca".

As some Argentinians use to say we love you Pepe, Maaaestro!