“Cayman Man” asks for help in networks to get a job – People – Culture

“The alligator man is talking to you, doll and donkey, so you can make your videos like this on the internet with the alligator man. Don’t charge yourself dearly, do it now! Don’t waste your time (…)”.

These words are uttered by the comedian Álvaro Lemmon, with a guitar in his hand and sitting on the sofa of a house. His song was recorded in a video he posted on his Twitter account, which has over 10,000 followers.

In the post, Lemmon asks his friends for help because “he makes promotional videos for business, birthday cards and anything else he needs.” He makes sure that the audiovisual products are cheap and that for any help he can be contacted at his mobile phone number.

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

The “caiman man”, as it is known, lost his job in 2019 after his departure from “Sábados Felices”, one of the oldest Colombian television programs and in which he participated in more than 40 for years.

At the time, Lemmon thanked the show for so many years of work, but did not hide his discomfort at the way his departure was delivered. It also turned out that he was fired for pension problems: at the age of 74, he had already fulfilled the 62 regulations for men’s retirement.

“They told me that everything is the same, that I am still on the payroll. However, some time later, they told me I had to leave, “he said.

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After a few months without a job, in January 2020 it became known that Telecaribe hired him for the program “La formula del humor”, a competition in which Lemmon was a judge with Myriam de Lourdes and Lucho Chamié.The production premiered on February 26, 2020 and ended on March 25.

And it is one of the sectors most affected by the crisis that the coronavirus has generated has been art and culture.

Only in Bogotá, for example, Nicolás Montero, secretary for culture in Bogotá, and Mauricio Agudelo, director of Creative Economies, confirmed to this newspaper that last year “especially in the performing and visual arts, in the area of ​​cultural heritage, which are the spaces that have entered the crisis for the first time, there was a reduction in revenues of 312,000 million pesos per month “.

Felipe Buitrago, Minister of Culture, explained that amid the difficulties, in 2021 this sector will have the largest budget in its history (444 billion pesos), and the sectors that are part of the orange economy will have a fiscal share of $ 517,000 million to promote projects at national level.

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