Colombian Political Comedy

problems of the country and the moral grounds of society, rather than with the disclosure of any special cultural, politically motivated, or genetic condition of the Colombians. In this regard, it is important to say that political comedy bases its essence on mockable situations and characters that, as mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, portray actions and behaviors open to be morally weighed by the citizenship. And such things are not exclusive to Colombia at all. People die everywhere, corruption appears in most societies, and violence is not a Colombian copyright. Consequently, the perception of the Colombian context exceptionality suggests more a rhetorical way of explaining the existence of satire in a country with infinite complications, rather than …show more content…
This makes the analysis very interesting since there might be a typology of Colombian citizen that appreciates the elements the present brings as a satirical endless source, but who sometimes gets insulted by his own talent. Carlos Mario Gallego “Mico” (2016), one of the few people in the country that keeps doing political comedy in the press through his “Tola y Maruja” weekly column for El Espectador, says that whilst “Argentinians or Spaniards quarrel and quarrel, and it seems they’re about to fight, they do not. They argue, and argue, and argue, but everything is ok. Here, we do the same, but we do end up fighting”. Other examples of such ‘Colombian intolerant nature’ are the pointed out by Federico Arango, co-founder of the mainstream fake news website Actualidad Panamericana; Esteban París, in-house political cartoonist at El Colombiano; and Juanita León, director and founder of the political website La Silla