Tip and Coll anticipated Monty Python’s surreal humor and the absurdity of Cañí roots that José Luis Cuerda patented years later. They drank from Jardiel Poncela and Mihura, from Gómez de la Serna and ‘La Codorniz’
His most memorable “joke” only required a glass and a pitcher. José Luis Coll gave a practical lesson on filling with water, while Luis Sánchez Polack, Tip, translated into a macaronic Frenchman wrapped in cigarette smoke and with a glass in his hand. “Regardez la gilipolluá”, he released, the title of the ‘Essentials’ about the comic couple, which is now available on RTVE Play.
Tip and Coll anticipated Monty Python’s surreal humor and the absurdity of Cañí roots that José Luis Cuerda patented years later. They drank from Jardiel Poncela and Mihura, from Gómez de la Serna and ‘La Codorniz’. The Tono, Mingote, Dalí and the Marx Brothers. Tip, an unpredictable hurricane, a brilliant madman, was already working as a supporting actor when one day a little man from Cuenca approached him in a tavern in Madrid, playing funny captions and getting a job as a black literary man.
They first performed together at the Aránzazu hotel in Bilbao. They triumphed on television, won a lot of money bowling and left a legacy of mythical phrases in popular culture: “And tomorrow we will talk about the government”, “give me your hand Pepe Lui…”. They were two language wizards who, dressed as gravediggers, seemed to improvise, when in fact all their numbers were the result of work and rehearsal. They were both rags and lived at night, but over time they became less resistant, as in Álex de Iglesia’s film ‘Dead of Laughter’. Coll played billiards with Felipe González at La Bodeguilla and Tip attended Alianza Popular rallies for his friendship with Manuel Fraga. One lost his son when he was nine years old, the other didn’t know his mother until he was fifty. They broke up the day Tip Coll wrote a check because he didn’t feel like moving on.
Source: La Verdad
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