He Poland TV3's show turns 20, and there are reasons to celebrate collectively, because humor is like a canary in a coal mine: if a country's public television broadcasts a political satire program where everyone is exposed, from the president and the powers that be on down, then we're in a democracy that leans heavily on image. You won't find an equivalent on Spanish television. Let's see who dares to take on King Felipe or the Ibex 35 there. Humor alone can't save democracy, but a country is also its sense of humor: what can be said and what's taboo.
Twenty years ago, a large part of the show's audacity lay in translating official political discourse into everyday language. But now that politics has embraced brazenness, tavern-like rhetoric, and memes, we must dig deeper to expose the contradictions, lies, and delusions of grandeur of power, pushing the boundaries of free speech to remind the system that we know how to add two plus two and that we have a memory. And to do so while entertaining the audience, which is no small feat.
The Poland It has been another way of writing the chronicle of the country, of Francoism thatHe wasn't dead, he was out partying.From the anti-Catalan sentiment that constitutes Spanish national identity, from the desire but inability of a Catalonia tied to the stake—both the real and the psychological one—, from the sad cost-benefit calculation it has become accustomed to for three centuries. Sometimes it has been sad that the Poland It would make us laugh, but if reality isn't as good as the parody, that's not the parody's fault. Many congratulations, many thanks, and best wishes for many years to Toni Soler and the entire team.
