“Humor has no limits, but you need to know when to make the joke”

Jorge Cadaval (Seville, 63 years old), half of Los Morancos, says that unlike his brother César, he has never done the Camino de Santiago. So when they decided to launch a program to thank the audience after 45 years of career, the idea of making a route to stop in towns across much of Spain and meet with various testimonies came almost instantly.

“We have made a route our way and always with a good sense of humor, to listen to what people from rural Spain want to tell us,” explains Cadaval. Córdoba, Valencia, Cáceres, La Granja (Segovia), Lérida, the Basque Country, Asturias, and Santiago de Compostela is the journey that the comedy duo has followed, which this Friday will begin its fourth episode on La 1 at 10:05 PM.

Jorge finds it difficult to summarize the experience because “everywhere there are people who leave you stunned, wonderful and with amazing professions.” For example, he praises the animators of a nursing home. “You don't know what girls, with such big hearts they cared for them and what good vibes. They had a clean look and conveyed many good things, besides giving life to the people who were there. Being in a nursing home is very hard,” reflects the comedian.

It wasn't the only story that impacted him. “There is a testimony from a trans boy who is very religious and tells us that nuns tormented him when he was little. They called him a demon, but he had so much faith...,” he says. Out of respect for his mother, that young person did not transition until he was 40 years old after her death. Then he wrote a letter to Pope Francis telling him his whole story and saying that it was hard for him to find priests who would confess him. The surprise came when he received a call from Pope Francis inviting him to his residence in Italy.

The Pope had to read part of his letter over the phone because he couldn't believe it. “My brother and I were very moved. By the way, he went with his wife to meet him and they talked about everything except his situation. In the end, the Pope grabbed his arm and told him to find a church where there were intelligent people who would listen to him, and since then his life has changed,” he recalls.

The show is also a way of reclaiming rural Spain and small towns against big cities. “We are always talking about Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao and it is important to know other realities,” says the comedian, who is delighted to have made “a wholesome program with a good heart, full of good people, which Spain and the whole world have in abundance; it's just that we have leaders who are not up to the population.” An endearing and fun route that everyone can watch, “from grandparents to pets.”

After this journey, one might ask if laughter varies by region and is different in each place. “Not at all; we all laugh at the same things. In a specific moment and situation, anything can be funny,” says someone who does not believe in limits for humor. “There are no limits, but the comedian must know when to make the joke; that's clear.” He shares a personal anecdote. “In mourning, we have always laughed at home. A few years ago, one of my brothers died and they took him to the forensic morgue for an autopsy. We went there and they had him in the cold chamber. When they took him out, my nephew Álvaro kissed him. 'How did you find him?' they asked. 'To put a crate of bottles,' he replied. I laugh at these things because I think they're funny and don't hurt anyone, but some people find them terrible.”

After so many years of career, doesn't your relationship as brothers suffer? “Not at all. I can fight with my brother eighty times but get over it within two minutes. We are 'jartibles', as they say there; we are together all day long as a family,” responds the comedian who is grateful for his life: “If I died now, I would have no problem because I have lived fully. But I don't want to die yet!”