‘Caiman Man’ asks for help in networks to get a job – People – Culture

“The alligator man talks to you, doll and donkey, so you can make your videos on the internet with the alligator man. I don’t charge you expensive, do it now! Don’t waste your time (…)”.

Those words are said by the humorist Álvaro Lemmon, guitar in hand and sitting on the sofa of a house. His song was included in a video he published through his Twitter account, which records more than 10,000 followers.

In the post, Lemmon asks his friends for help because he “makes promotional videos for business, birthday wishes and whatever else he needs”. He ensures that audiovisual products are cheap and that he can be reached for any help on his mobile number.

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The humorist’s message went viral on that social network, and some people have already announced that they want to help him.

The ‘Caiman Man’, as he is called, was out of a job in 2019 after his departure from ‘Sábados Felices’, one of the oldest programs on Colombian television and in which he participated for more than 40 years, was announced.

At the time, Lemmon thanked the show for so many years of work, but made no secret of his discomfort at the way his departure was concerned. It was also revealed that he was fired for retirement issues: at the age of 74, he was already complying with 62 men’s pension plans.

“They told me everything was the same, that I was still on the payroll. However, some time later they told me to go, ”he said.

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After being unemployed for several months, it was announced in January 2020 that the channel Telecaribe had hired him for the program ‘La Formula del humor’, a competition in which Lemmon was a jury member together with Myriam de Lourdes and Lucho Chamié.The production premiered on February 26, 2020 and ended on March 25.

And it is that one of the sectors most affected by the crisis that caused the coronavirus is arts and culture.

Only in Bogotá, for example, Nicolás Montero, Secretary of Culture of Bogotá, and Mauricio Agudelo, Director of Creative Economies, confirmed to this newspaper last year that “ specifically in the performing and visual arts, in the field of cultural heritage, what the spaces are who first went into crisis, there was a drop in income of 312,000 million pesos per month ”.

Felipe Buitrago, Minister of Culture, explained that in the midst of the difficulties, by 2021 this sector will have the highest budget in its history (444 billion pesos) and the sectors that make up the Orange Economy will have a fiscal quota of $ 517,000. million to promote national projects.

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