Last Thursday, Marc Giró went to have fun on El hormiguero to promote the premiere of his next program on La Sexta. The one who didn't have such a good time was Pablo Motos, who after a few minutes already seemed to regret the meeting. Giró appeared on the set like a miura when they open the corral gates in San Fermín. The impact of the hug was an allegory of how much Pablo Motos would end up suffocated by the intensity of the guest. Giró's charges, intentional and disguised as theatricality, served to warn that he was willing to drown out any proclamation that is made on this program.Giró entered with overflowing joy but launching preemptive attacks to mark territory. As soon as he sat down, he compared the guests' past to a gay sauna. “I didn't know Atresmedia was so faggoty, please!” Giró resorted to a metaphor that, at first, Motos liked: “The two Spains are together here! What Arturo Pérez-Reverte hasn't achieved with Uclés, you have achieved with me! Because you are a seducer!” Giró has the savoir-faire of the most trained aristocracy: he even knows how to joke with the least sympathetic interlocutor. He appealed to the supposed “fascists of El hormiguero” as a rumor. “I haven't met any yet! I have a desire to meet the famous fascist of El hormiguero!” Giró repeatedly invoked the fascists of Atresmedia as if they were a legend or ghosts that needed to be checked if they really existed. Motos was so disoriented and uncomfortable, speechless, that the plush ants appeared ahead of time from under the table to help him deal with this beast that was challenging them. The rag dolls didn't get their play right either. As soon as they poked their heads out, Giró greeted the ants by recalling a colleague who arrived at work one morning explaining that she had fucked a program ant. Motos was in shock at a guest who spent more time promoting anal sex than the program he is to premiere after Easter. “What did you want to ask me about Pedro Sánchez?”, Giró forced, exhibiting his fervor for the Spanish president, and aware that he was breaking with the ideological purpose ofEl hormiguero: “You are very subtle with Pedro Sánchez and very not subtle with the far-right!” In front of a Motos in a state of shock, an ant had to come out to announce that “on this program we are all against fascism”. It's curious that a program needs to emphasize it for it to be clear.Giró displayed all his potential as a showmanand proved the success of his signing. In passing, it seemed that Giró, with his repertoire of incisive comments on politics and sexuality, was checking on air the limits of Atresmedia's tolerance and the margin he has to express himself. A very symptomatic fact, however, was the practical disappearance of the fervent claque of the program's audience. The applause, with Marc Giró, was not activated much. And more than a casual fact, it should be interpreted, between the lines, as a warning.
