Joaquín Reyes and the swelling in his scrotum that forced him to undergo surgery: “He had an egg like an avocado”

‘The Anthill’ A new week began this Monday with the visit of the actor Joaquin Reyeswhich has presented ‘Peace’the play with which he will participate, from July 17 to 21, in the next Merida Festival. Set in classical Athens, the fable of this comedy is an invocation to the goddess Peace, with all the difficulties that this noble will entails.

After entering the set and taking his seat, Joaquín Reyes started the interview by talking about his debut as a theater actor. “He debuted in the theater and made his debut in Mérida with ‘La Paz’, a comedy by Aristophanes, a classic of Greek comedy. The play has been adapted by Francisco Nieva, is directed by Raquel Camacho, has a fantastic cast and It makes me very excited because it is in the Roman theater“, highlighted the comedian. “My expectations are to be understood and listened to. There’s nothing like having realistic expectations at work and That’s why now I’m at home all day declaiming“, added the Castilian from La Mancha.

Pablo Motos wanted to know what makes Joaquín Reyes more nervous, whether doing monologues or doing theater. “This project makes me more nervous. Although I take it as a learning experience, it is a challenge. It makes me more nervous because the monologue at the end is material that I have written, that I have tested and it is a terrain in which I move more confidently. Theater I have never done, but I trust the director a lot and that there are going to be many rehearsals,” noted the comedian, who revealed how ‘La Paz’ begins: “The Greeks knew very well how to start high. At first they are amassing shit because my character goes to Olympus on a dung beetle instead of on a drawn horse and they give him shit to make his balls. So that people get the idea, I get on a beetle and fly. It’s a very crazy and very fun thing.“.

After a break for advertising, Pablo Motos said that Joaquín Reyes’ family uses a phrase when they see that it is going to get intense. “When they guess that one of my disquisitions is coming, they say: ‘How good the tiles are!’. This was said for the first time by my sister-in-law Ana, who loves me very much and that as soon as she sees that I start with one of my things… And my family, who are all very horny, I mean My children and my wife use that tagline and leave me ‘drinking’ the air, but they lose things that are undoubtedly very interesting. “, confessed the monologist.

Joaquín Reyes reveals the curious origin of the expiration date

The host of ‘El Hormiguero’ asked the interviewee to tell some of those historical curiosities that bore his family. “For example, The expiration date, which is always approximate, is a relatively recent thing that was set by the Capone brothers, the gangsters. Apart from killing, they also distributed milk. A nephew got sick with milk and they said it would be good to set a date to know when the products had to be consumed. And this was what the Capones did, who would have their things and kill people, but not because the milk was cut off,” commented Joaquín Reyes. “And these are the things that my family misses because they are so cretins.“, has added.

Joaquín Reyes remembers his worst experience as a stand-up comedian

The presenter of the entertainment space Atresmedia which is broadcast from Monday to Thursday from 9:45 p.m. on Antenna 3 has questioned the first guest of the week about what happened to him during a monologue in Guadalajara with a sock. “I went to a place to perform on a Sunday, because on Sundays the performances… I went with all my enthusiasm to Guadalajara, It was a very narrow place and people were talking a lot, so I started talking faster and faster to finish as soon as possible. At one point they threw something at me that hit me in the face, I caught it and it was a sock. And I thought, here there are two options: ‘Either that person has brought it from home or he has taken it.’ But neither of them were good. Or she said: ‘I’m going to the monologue, I didn’t forget my sock’; or he took it away and threw it at me,” said Joaquín Reyes.

“And then, The owner was with a friend in the warehouse and told me: ‘Put your hand in and I’ll pay you.’ And he put the bills in my hand while he said to his friend: ‘Look, I say that they should bring me good people, but you can ask for it and then they will bring you each one, which…’. And I was there, with the bills, and he told me: ‘I’m going to give you some advice, don’t speak so fast that you won’t be understood.’ It was a very good experience. Well, a vital story, at the end of the day a learning experience,” continued Joaquín Reyes about his worst experience as a stand-up comedian born on August 16, 1974 in Albacete.

Next, Joaquín Reyes spoke with Pablo Motos about the time he suffered a hydrocele, which is a type of swelling in the scrotum. “In 2020, which was a year that you will all remember, I ended the year, who was going to say it, with a very fat egg. I thought it was because of all the adventures and misadventures we had… But of course, It had an egg like an avocado. One was normal, but the other was like an avocado. I named him, Don Emilio, and with Don Emilio I had two wonderful years until I had surgery and it got better“, said the 49-year-old comedian.

Joaquín Reyes explains how he lives with synesthesia

The producer of ‘El Hormiguero’ has also highlighted that this year’s guest suffers from synesthesia, which is the union of two images or sensations from different sensory domains. “Synesthesia is a crossing of senses, to put it simply. So with numbers I see colors. When I think of a number, that number has a color associated with it. And well, 1 is black, 2 is blue, 3 is green, 4 is brown, 5 is orange… There are many types of synesthesia, but this is the most common. Then there are people who see music or time located in space or who savor words. What’s the use of this? You are welcome. To liven up a dinner” remarked Joaquín Reyes, who explained that synesthesia is unidirectional. “For me, numbers have color, but with colors I don’t see numbers. For example, I see red and I don’t think about a number, but I see 2 and I think about blue,” he continued.

Finally, to end the interview, Joaquín Reyes revealed that he took the exam to be a drawing teacher and admitted that he got so bored preparing for the exam that one day he set his hand on fire. “What I studied a day did not even last an hour, because I ate, I took a nap, I had a snack, I started studying but then I had to have dinner, so an hour and a quarter, because then I would go to bed early to perform the next day. During one of those study sessions, I grabbed a permanent marker and painted a nail. I went to the bathroom to clean it, I poured alcohol on my nail and thought: ‘How cool would it be to soak my hand in alcohol, light it, say hello in the mirror with my burning hand, turn it off and continue studying“, he recalled. “What happened? As soon as I caught my hand, I screamed, my mother started asking what was wrong, that she smelled like a sparrow, and then we were having dinner. I saw a hairy hand and another shaved, as if it were a rubber hand“, recalled the comedian.

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