HeIt's happening has started its ninth season. The program has been languishing for some time now. The show that analyzed current events with causticity and spite, that was eager to say things, has devolved into a show of jokes and self-importance. Despite this death, it must be said that this season the program has made the network's best signing. He is the best comedian ever to sit at that table. Finally, we see the presenters laugh genuinely when he intervenes, instead of using the well-trained cackle of corporatism.
He is Marc Buxaderas, actor, stand-up comedian, inclusion activist, comic, and journalism student. He is the program's new mediator and must handle viewer complaints. While public television saturated the audience with talk of the greatness of its new NewscastBuxaderas was the one who asked Toni Cruanyes the best question about the changes to the set: "Is the set adapted?" In short. He asked because he uses a wheelchair and knows that the world is not made to measure for people with disabilities. Cruanyes, hesitant, assured that it was, with the exception of the area of the platform where he stands to present. The perfect allegory to confirm the physical and symbolic barriers. In fact, not even the set of theIt's happening It's adapted. Television is a magnificent tool for inclusion, not through sermons but through simple evidence.
Buxaderas makes you laugh even if you don't want to. He's politically incorrect, but not through the gratuitous provocation of boastful comics, but through the sarcasm of someone who has been forced to see the world differently. The role he's been assigned already involves a good dose of sarcasm. He's assigned the role of mediator to channel people's complaints, appealing to the sensitivity and empathy expected of someone with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. But, instead, Buxaderas becomes a protest pyromaniac, capable of focusing on the person who has been offended, the program that hired him, the television network where he works, and himself. "A lot of complaints?" Jair Domínguez asked him this Wednesday. "Considering the beatings the other programs are receiving, you can be happy," Buxaderas responded indulgently. The script hits the mark in the way it relates the topics to his reality. When he echoed the complaints about the mockery of theOdyssey Homer's, the comic justified it by identifying with the plot of the work: "I come from Aguilar de Segarra, for me it's an odyssey to get to Sant Joan Despí!" Buxaderas, who must finish the section exhausted by the intensity he puts into his mission, is sarcastic, spontaneous, likeable and bold. He is effective because he has the wit of someone who knows where he wants to aim and the determination of someone who has important things to say. Beyond humor, Buxaderas very naturally confronts us with his disability. And what he says, apart from making us laugh, makes us think.
