The most fun summer night Charlie Pee remembers seemed, at first, doomed to disaster. She and a group of friends had taken the last flight of the day from Barcelona to Mallorca to start their vacation, but a breakdown put an end to their plans. “They changed the plane for another that had fewer seats and we were left out,” she explains. Result: she, two of her friends, and about twenty other people were left behind while most of the group of friends landed calmly in Mallorca.

To Charlie Pee, one of the most prominent comedians of her generation, known for her live shows and for her collaboration with the program La resistencia, she likes to make people laugh, but what she likes most is to make herself laugh. This, she says, helps her better digest difficult experiences. We talk to her about the connection between laughter and happiness and how people who make us laugh from a stage also seek this joy through the laughter of others.