Venga Monjas (Esteban Navarro and Xavi Daura) is the comedic duo that has taken over the internet. In 2006, when YouTube had just been around for a year, the two nearly-teenagers posted their first comedy video on the then-nascent video platform. Using YouTube as a place to upload videos and share them with friends, they gradually became a key phenomenon in what is called post-humor.
Famous for their videos and absurd comedy sketches inherited from La hora chanante, they have collaborated on projects like Museo Coconut, APM?, or Ilustres ignorantes, created web series like Da Suisa or Noticias de actualidad, and worked on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. Today, they are a full-fledged celebrity in the humor galaxy, the kings of what has come to be known as "chanante humor," referring to the now-defunct absurd comedy show La hora chanante. And indeed, they are the true heirs of a vision of humor based on the most absolute grotesque.
Their trajectory as artists has given them the opportunity to work with creators like Nacho Vigalondo, Miguel Noguera, Muchachada Nui, David Pantaleón, Jordi Costa, Toni Segarra... And they have caught the attention of the media as the craziest and most surreal series on the internet. Their aim has always been, in some way, to explore the relationship between humor and fear. To dance on that border.
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Venga Monjas is a very fun company. What is seen in the end, the result that has given them personality, are their funny videos, but the process is essential to understanding them as artists. They started in 2006, uploading adventures to Youtube.com, and over the years they have hired about three people. They work very close to a Caixa de Catalunya, where they fire people very easily. What they do is stay alert, and at the key moment, kindly approach the fired person to take advantage of their recent sadness, promising them a better future. It's a matter of investing days in surveillance, having patience.
They are a couple extremely concerned about the safety of their employees, and that's why whenever they hire someone, they subject them to a 20-day training course (which they also always attend, of course). It's not something that goes well with the work rhythm, to be honest, since suddenly they have to postpone everything for 20 days, but for everything related to Safety and reducing work risks, they believe any sacrifice is worth it. Also, the course is incredibly expensive, so it must be good. Some employees have left during the 20-day course, weird people, I don't know. And that's how the videos come out, little by little, like snakes. But safely.
Venga Monjas' dream is to make a living freely creating their videos. To have a salary in exchange for an artistic routine, producing their ideas regularly. "We want to make a great movie, an action comedy," they have said. "We imagine a movie that starts with a huge explosion, then an hour of normal comedy. Until the end of the movie, when we see a bunch of explosions, of all kinds, in different parts of the city, for another hour and a half."
