Her father was stirring in the patio, listening to some of the jokes that came out of his girl's mouth that night. In the midst of the transition from Marta Martínez to Martita de Graná, from an English teacher to a comic influencer with no hair on the tongue - and with a very granaína language -, the father had trouble swallowing that. Four years have passed and he has already got used to it, but My father freaks out , the show that until days ago he was performing in theaters throughout Spain, is a memory of that. "He had 14 pins this March," she says. Minus two that gave him time to do, the rest have been canceled by the coronavirus health crisis. But Martita is not for dramas, rather it has gone viral by working just the opposite. The comedian accumulates millions of reproductions on her social networks with videos in which she squeezes feelings, nervousness and paranoia of confinement to humorously represent the daily life carousel of this quarantine.
The confined video pills of this "comic" - as she likes to be called - have become quite a revelation. I'm fine, thanks #yomequedoencasa , published on March 20, already has 3.4 million views on Facebook; Sentences of confinement , 3.1 million or Parents of the future already have 2.8. “From quarantine I am going to do something good. I have added 100,000 followers in ten days ”, Martínez summarizes amused. Her ability to laugh at herself in everyday scenes with which it is easy to see herself reflected have made her Facebook page already have 675,000 followers and that of Instagram, more than 425,000.
Martita's running of the bulls these days is peculiar. The state of alarm has caught her with reforms in her house - "the same one where I was born" - in Granada. So, alone and without a kitchen, as she tells in one of her videos, Martita spends the day at the home of “la Chelo”, her neighbor next door, “que es la caña” and has become the supporting actress of her videos , with the permission of Martínez's mother. Chelo helps the comedian to record such homemade videos that she makes and edits herself on her mobile. “It's not that I have a schedule or anything. When I have a good idea, I get it and I do it without a script. If they were more prepared I think they would not arrive the same ”, acknowledges the young woman of just 30 years. At bedtime, he says good night to Chelo and goes back to his bed at home.
It is not the nets that feed him. “To monetize that, you have to follow certain conditions that do not interest me. I prefer to put the videos as I like them, without advertising and without forcing their duration, and then people come to see me in the theaters ”, he explains about how his profession is organized. Without an exact cadence, Martita de Graná regularly publishes her pieces every other day, in addition to keeping Instagram stories fed on a daily basis.
In Frases del confinamiento he laughs at the common places that are heard in many Spanish homes: "This is serious, that the bars have closed"; "At least the pollution has gone down"; "There are not going to be divorces after this." And on any day during confinement, the day is eaten from time to time. "It is real, like other ideas that I tell, I feel cool here and there," he admits with laughter.
It is only the maxim that Martita applies to all her videos since she started in the humor. She studied Educational Sciences with the aspiration to become an English teacher. He even went so far as to give extracurricular classes to children. But one day, four years ago, he recorded “a video talking about Graná and it went viral. I kept recording videos and after two years they proposed to get on a stage. And that's where it all started, ”he explains through a video conference with Verne. "Every thing that happens to me I take humorously to the videos," adds the young woman. And what has lived in the confinement, in reality, is what has happened to many and "people have felt so identified that they liked it very much."
Martita acknowledges that she has a "very bad mouth" - her father warned her already - and that the subjects she sometimes deals with in her shows are controversial. But she is delighted that her majority audience in theaters is female. "I like to make the men who come to the performances nervous," he says maliciously. It is the only evil he shows off: with three dogs at home, Martita regularly collaborates with animal shelters. His sister should now have been in Africa on an eight-month charity project that she has had to cancel for which she is falling. And she, in full confinement, is happy that her humor serves to make the closing more bearable: "It is what saves me."
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