Ernesto Belloni’s Mea Culpa: Reflections on Sexist Humor and Social Change

2023-12-15 14:32:19

Ernesto Belloni, the national comedian who was widely known thanks to his character ‘Che Copete’, made a mea culpa in dialogue with The fourth Regarding the humor of his role, classified as sexist for the new generations.

In the conversation with the media, the comedian reflected on his 38-year career, where, for the most part, his comedy was related to people’s physical appearance and the female gender.

The actor also explained that The social outbreak marked a change in Morandé with Company; program of which he was a part. “We were doing very well until just before the social outbreak. We came with many ups and downs, because it was already noticeable that a change was coming, people were asking for something else. ‘I already saw mines, I already saw that Che Copete was affectionate with them, that he heals. Give me something else,’ they said,” Belloni told the popular newspaper.

Ernesto Belloni makes mea culpa for sexist humor

“Then came the social outbreak. And there is the question died completely. That type of humor died, Kike, the program, the artists, me, everything“Ernesto stated.

“The criticism starts with social networks. When you start saying that the woman is being used. They begin to find the details, to argue, to criticize a lot. And with the explosion everything was totally manifested. ‘That women can’t do this, that you can’t work with dwarfs.’ everything was bad“continued the actor.

“Not the men, the women were criticizing that I was an old degenerate, who touched women (…). Before they were pure women, that the plane, that you groped them all over. But At that time it was super accepted, and it was also what people wanted to seethat’s why markabai which markabai. And then with the explosion the catastrophe began. But I never abused or touched women. It was for TV. The camera turned off and that hueá no longer existed (sic),” explained the comedian.

“I think we went too far, I recognized that we went a little too far with the women, without abusing them, but it was what people wanted to see.”. The humor was also a little strong with homosexual characters, we did many homosexual characters, many characters of fat people, of skinny people, of dwarfs, so people began to be bothered by all this new modality. That’s why the dwarfs, the skinny ones, the fat ones, all of that died.“, Belloni concluded.

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