The comedian Manel Vidal fired from TV3 rejects that he pointed out the PSC as a Nazi party

The comedian Manel Vidal, collaborator of the Zona Franca program on TV3, dismissed in a sudden way for a gag that linked the PSC with the symbol of a Nazi swastika, has reacted on social networks with harsh criticism, both towards the direction of the chain public as the PSC and ERC, whom he accuses of "capitalizing a false offense".

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 January 2023 Monday 06:06
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The comedian Manel Vidal fired from TV3 rejects that he pointed out the PSC as a Nazi party

The comedian Manel Vidal, collaborator of the Zona Franca program on TV3, dismissed in a sudden way for a gag that linked the PSC with the symbol of a Nazi swastika, has reacted on social networks with harsh criticism, both towards the direction of the chain public as the PSC and ERC, whom he accuses of "capitalizing a false offense". Of the Socialists he assures that "they have feigned indignation" and of the Republicans and the direction of public television that "they have given in because it is the only thing they know how to do."

Vidal affirms that "you have to be very boomer or very stupid to really believe that I said that the PSC is a Nazi party" recounts on his Twitter profile. The comedian justifies his dismissal, in this case, responding to the fact that "a politician has ordered a journalist to write an article in order to raise it to a commission." About TV3 he asserts that he "has given in absolutely to all the pressures and has dwarfed a program" that was a fresh bet.

As for the gag that has cost him the expulsion from the program, Vidal believes that "it is a much better joke than others that have caused me to be fired from other media" that is, that in this sense he claims "to be happy". Still, he suggests that "demanding a collaborator's head is a weird way of not looking like a Nazi." Regarding the gag, he assures that it is "a meme that must be ten fucking years old" and that he uses it to show that "someone is very left-wing" and that, on the other hand, nobody uses it to say "look, a Nazi".

“I didn't call anyone a Nazi” asserts the comedian, who admits he is too lazy to open the debate on the limits of humor. What he wanted to say, he explains, is that "the PSC in a social axis is a right-wing party" and contrasts it with the national axis "where the PSC is a party of the extreme right" an assertion that "it is not necessary or to argue" and summarizes the controversy with "I suppose they want to take advantage of the fact that Junts is catching flies with their mouths open to be the party of orderly people who want to be able to go by car to buy bread".

Vidal affirms of the PSC that "he takes the opportunity to send messages to his voters" of the type: "look, we are the party of the fourth belt, of the expansion of the Prat airport and the Hard Rock Café". The comedian also charges ink against ERC: "Pedro Sánchez has the budgets approved and Esquerra has no choice but to beg the PSC to approve theirs" a political reading in which he recounts that the Socialists "have no incentive to approve them, they simply they are dragging ERC”. Of the Republicans, he criticizes that "they are sublimating the noble art of poorly done autonomism" and reproaches them that "if you have to do it, at least do it well" and not instead "allow yourself to be pissed in five hundred different ways" to renounce the national discourse.