The comedian arrives at the Virla Cultural Center. Self-referential, he tells on stage about his daughters, his partner, his fatherhood and the runners.
With “Tibio” he began his tour through different cities in the country, followed by presentations in Montevideo, Paraguay, Colombia and Chile. And it wasn’t the first.
Mike Chouhy He continues to carry his humor and his guitar, repeating that “when you turn 30 the tables turn, and when the body is directed by a diet: the fight between calories, fat and muscle mass is inevitable.”
The comedian has more than 830,000 followers on Instagram, where he brings to life characters who have become famous, and his videos have millions of views.
Successful? Of course it does, because it is also included in the list of those who think that humor is healing. “Of course, I’m not going to get you out of depression or spinal pain, but you’re going to have a good time for an hour or so,” he tells LA GACETA.
His shows are crossed by his family, his wife and his daughters. So much so that the note was agreed upon for a time when he did not have to go pick up his daughters from school. Self-referential like all art, as he established it Umberto Eco in his treatise on aesthetics.
Fantasies and taboos
The standapero, which will be presented tonight at the Virla Cultural Center (May 25, 265), at 9 p.m., achieved a high audience with shows such as “The new normality” and “La tiendita del horror”, in which the interaction with the public stands out quite a bit. Because that is another of its characteristics. In February she starred in “Permitidos”, a comedy that talks about fantasies and taboos as a couple, without remorse or guilt.
– For a little over a decade now, stand-up is overwhelming. I imagine that the artists themselves feel like they are in a crowd movement. How do you deal with that to distinguish yourself from the rest?
– Stand up is a branch of theater and each one has its mark. We all make humor from our person and we are all different; We distinguish ourselves by being different. There is nothing that has not been done, I play the guitar and the piano and I try to give it a distinction on that side. And I perform humorous songs on stage. But on the networks I have characters like “ChetoConSube” and “JuanCassette” and people call me by that name on the street and it’s very crazy, but that’s on social networks. Humor is a self-referential genre. I started talking about my outings and clubbing, now I’m talking about my daughters and my role as a father.
– What topics do you address in your presentations?
– As for topics, I talk about everything a little. What it is like for you and what you face at 35 years old. I have two daughters and I talk a lot about my fatherhood, and conflicts with my partner. I also talk about being lukewarm (as the show is called), and what that generates in me, that thing of avoiding conflict at all costs; the justification of the title, children, work and the passage of time for example. Regarding the closing, I talk about the fashion of runners, those runners who are seen so much every time.
– You have said several times that humor is good, it is healing. It really is that?
– Humor is healing, yes, saying things and laughing at what happens to us. I’m not going to cure your depression or back pain, but you’re going to have a good time for an hour or so. Getting away from so much screen, enjoying live theater with a flesh and blood human being, that is relevant. I see it in all the presentations that I have been doing with different works. In humor I found a lifestyle, a gateway to a fascinating and healing universe.
– Has it happened to you that you are in a bad mood at a show? How do you get over it?
– And it’s hard to get out of there, but it’s part of our job. It is us on stage, but we are still a character, it is me, but accentuated; I am not in real life how I am seen on stage, it is complicated. In moments of acting I have to abstract myself from the bad things that are happening to you to connect with whoever is in the theater. It happened to me once when my daughter was hospitalized and I had to go out to do the show. And since I mention her a lot in the show, every time I talked about her I thought about how she is, and I had to concentrate quite a bit and I was able to carry it through, thinking that at night I would go to sleep with her in the hospital. I remember that moment because I had to abstract myself as much as possible to continue.
