The TV3 program Està passant has unleashed a powerful controversy and reopened the controversy on the bounds of humor with the published of a sketch wherein it parodies the Virgen del Rocío and the Andalusian Holy Week. The president of the Andalusian Junta, Juana Moreno, has condemned the gag, broadcast final Tuesday on Catalan regional tv, and requested these accountable to apologize, one thing that the director of this system, Toni Soler, has rejected, who has responded with a blunt “you’ll be able to wait seated”.
Humor is without doubt one of the hallmarks of our land, however to be humorous it’s finished with respect and affection.
It is a scarcity of respect for #Andalusia, and hundreds of Andalusians and their traditions. I hope that to say sorry they know the way to do it higher.pic.twitter.com/IF4rkO1CN2
— Juanma Moreno (@JuanMa_Moreno) April 8, 2023 Ana Rosa: “It’s not even humorous”
An argument that has been addressed this Monday in The Ana Rosa program, the place the presenter has made her place clear. “This just isn’t even humorous”, Ana Rosa stated about this sketch that she described as “xenophobic and discriminatory”, as a result of it goes towards “the deep spiritual beliefs of individuals”, and which she additionally considers cowardly, since that “they do not have the balls to do the identical with Allah.”
The presenter was not amused by the TV3 joke. “You can do clever humor, however what you’ll be able to’t do is offend the Andalusians and their spiritual beliefs free of charge and with out grace,” added Ana Rosa, who has simply spent Holy Week along with her household, exactly, in Seville.
Ana Rosa, towards TV3 and the parody of the Virgen del Rocío: “I’m not amused”
At the dialogue desk there have been discordant opinions. Some collaborators defended freedom of expression, no matter whether or not or not the sketch was humorous, and recalled that the identical channel had already mocked the Virgin of Montserrat, popularly referred to as La Moreneta, patron saint of Catalonia. The picture is honored within the Monastery of Montserrat, an emblem for Catalonia and is a degree of pilgrimage for believers, in addition to a vacationer attraction.
“This identical gag was already finished with Montserrat and so they additionally went additional as a result of they blended it up with a case of sexual abuse,” recalled one of many collaborators, responding to those that accuse TV3 of “Andalusophobia” and imagine that the Catalan program he wouldn’t have messed together with his personal Virgin. The sketch in regards to the Virgin of Montserrat, broadcast in 2019, can be being shared on networks:
In this parody, two vacationers approached the Virgin of Montserrat to ask her why she didn’t maintain child Jesus in her arms, one thing to which she responded by explaining that she had taken him to a camp when she noticed what they did with the youngsters within the abbey the monks, referring to circumstances of sexual abuse that had come to gentle. The sketch made reference to Michael Jackson, indicating that that was the title of the camp.
This was the sketch that parodied the Virgen del Rocío
The sketch of Està passant that has now raised a brand new media storm consists of a parody within the type of an interview with the actress Judit Martín, dressed because the Virgin of El Rocío, with a doll in her arms that pretended to be the child Jesus.
During the parody, the actress complained, with a marked Andalusian accent, in regards to the ostentatiousness of the go well with: “I have not been in a position to get laid correctly for 200 years!”, she stated, earlier than attempting to flirt with one of many presenters of this system, Jair Domínguez, whereas Soler acknowledged that he didn’t know “what to say in order to not screw it up” with that subject: “We are in a minefield.”
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