‘LOL: When you smile, you lose’ returns with a second season hosted by Silvia Abril and Carolina Iglesias
Such was the success, they assure Prime Video, that the second season of “LOL: When You Smile, You Lose” will be released this Friday in 240 countries and territories. Little joke. Henar Álvarez, one of the new faces of the competition, surprised by the international projection of a program with editions in Italy, Germany, Mexico, Australia, France, India, Brazil and Canada, cast a knowing glance at her companions Yolanda Ramos, Luis Piedrahita and Patricia Conde. He did it during the presentation of this new series of episodes that took place last Tuesday at the Rialto Theater on Gran Vía in Madrid.
The basics of “LOL: If you laugh, you lose” has a lot to do with that of “Don’t laugh, it’s worse”, in which anonymous contestants compete against comedians like Pedro Reyes, Marianico el Corto or Mr. Barragán, trying to keep calm, because even the slightest smile made them lose points. Here are the contestants, exactly, presenters, actors and comedians with an unmistakable comedic streak who, locked up for six hours in some kind of resort, will fight to make the rest of the contestants laugh while maintaining the most serious countenance. Improvisation, monologues, imitations and gags are, among other things, the sauce of a program in which the winner is the one who has the last laugh. Along with Álvarez, Conde, Piedrahita and Ramos, Anabel Alonso, who was locked out last season due to covid, Carlos Areces, Lorena Castell, JJ Vaquero and comedic influencers Antón Lofer and Juan Amodeo are entering the competition.
Two comic queens are two comic queens, Silvia Abril and Carolina Iglesias, who pick up the witness of the incombustible Santiago Segura -she winks at the start of the match-. They are the ones who set the rules and provide the evidence. “This time the contestants have a big advantage, because they have already seen the first season and it shows,” explains Abril, who took part in the previous edition of a show in which the funny Yolanda Ramos was the first to be eliminated. Ramos, who has been arrested, assured on Tuesday to the laughter of his professional colleagues that he would “hold longer” this time. The actress, who we recently got to see in a hilarious role in ‘Amor de madre’, confessed during the presentation that she thought it would lead to nothing when she heard this idea, based on a Japanese program. “It’s just a childish game we’ve all played, but if there’s money behind it…”, he laughed.
And while the mechanics haven’t changed – one smile, yellow card; two smiles, red card and eviction, April emphasized that the new season “brings many surprises”. One is that an audience comes on set, beautifully decorated. What doesn’t change is the game many of the characters are playing – seeing Anabel Alonso as a doctor drinking from JJ Vaquero’s “urine” is priceless. The uncertainty about who will be the winner also remains. “There are people who would say, ‘This one can’t stand it,’ and who are ultimately surprised,” Abril said.
According to his partner, Carolina Iglesias, the funniest part of the contest is “seeing from the outside the tricks they use to hide their laughter.” The one with Lorena Castell? Scream all the time and move quickly around the house; Ramos is going to cover his ears more and look the other way. On the other hand, gossip, and by gossip we mean Castell himself, says that Carlos Areces hardly had to suppress himself. “It’s just that they weren’t funny to me,” half of Ojete Calor was having fun. “Yes, with Carlos we didn’t know whether we didn’t like him or whether we immediately disgusted him”, the employee of ‘Zapeando’ agreed with a laugh. Anabel Alonso said she got a headache and got blood on her cheeks from biting it so many times: “Six hours is a lot!”
Behind the competition in Spain is Endemol Shine Iberia (Banijay), directed by Miguel Martín. “It is the casting that makes the difference, in addition to the fact that the prize, of one hundred thousand euros for the winner, goes to charities, an objective that goes beyond us,” said Martín, who highlighted the “giant quarry of comedians.” is there in Spain” “We are very lucky. Some make a very physical humor, others play with words… In the end everything falls into place».
Source: La Verdad
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