This is a cartoon sketch called Enjuto Mojamuto from the TV show Muchachada Nui, a half-hour programme consisting of unrelated sketches of a very absurd and surrealistic nature. Muchachada Nui started out as quite cult on channel 2 and has gone more mainstream over time, mainly as a result of the sketches being shared around on YouTube (take note Viacom). The humour is typical of what I call ‘Joopie Spain’ – a joopie being the Spanish way of saying ‘yuppie’ but in my definition meaning predominantly young, tech-savvy, city-living, independent people.
One of the best shows currently on Spanish TV is Caméra Café (Telecinco, Thursday nights), a wickedly funny view on office life made up of a series of short clips all filmed from the perspective of the office automatic coffee machine. Sounds weird? It is, but the fixed perspective that this set-up generates enables the characters to really come to life. The YouTube clip attached: – shows a typical episode, of which there will be 4 or 5 per show. For all of us who have worked in an office the character types are familiar enough, but the actors really play them well and the show is a scream. Really excellent humour, sharply observed and rapidly fired-off.
Apparently, it was originally a French show (Camera Cafe being a play on ‘Camera Cachée’ – or hidden camera) created by Bruno Solo, Yvan Le Bolloc’h and Alain Kappauf broadcast on the M6 channel. Can’t speak for the Froggy version but the Spanish version is tops. Check it out.
