General Franco is still dead | Television

He Francoism It lasted so long that, when it ended due to its founder's biological imperative, all the jokes about him had already been exhausted. The best were made by Americans the same year 1975: a summit of universal television humor entitled General Franco is still dead. Week after week, throughout the season, Chevy Chase presented a fake news on Saturday night Live (by then, just released) in which he always gave the same headline: "They inform us that General Franco is still dead." He then read some statements -real- of Nixon's condolence in which he described the dictator as "loyal friend and ally of the United States", while a photo of Franco was projected next to Hitler with his arm raised.

General Franco is still dead it's one of the longest recurring jokes and celebrated the history of TV. They stretched her so much that they should no longer fit jokes about Franco, his death and his body anywhere. And yet, here we are, 44 years later (nine more than the Franco regime lasted), with the writers of the humor programs squeezing the cortex to write one more gracieta, the penultimate, about a character that should not not even the coccyx.

It is already by chance that Amenábar and Karra Elejalde are walking around the TV to promote their Unamuno, stating that we still live in Franco, as if the mere premiere of While the war lasts It was not irrefutable proof that the dictatorship persists only the shame of the dead in the gutters, which is not a small burden, but we can denounce it without condemning us to Carabanchel.

Chevy Chase will have to be called to give the news, once again, that General Franco is still dead.