Bienvenidos
Aired weekly, it consists of 20 to 25 comic sketches that usually take oncouples, homosexuals, doctors and other members of society as the target of their jokes. During its latest years, most of the sketches had a sexual edge to them.
Some of the most popular characters onthe show include:
El Loco Hugo (Kike Corona), a lunatic who likes to flash women
Manolo, (Gustavo Gonzalez) the Spaniard from Galicia
Rigoberto (Kike Corona), who has the mentality ofa 10 year-old-boy and whose wives always cheat on him, to which he invariably screams, "¡Tú no me quieres!" ("You don't love me!")
Enrico (Ernesto Cortés), a gay character that occasionallystarts out masculine, but then behaves effeminately and his voice is altered in pitch
Briagoberto, (Gustavo Gonzalez) a perpetually drunk man
Nino Frescobaldi (Julio Gassette), a naughty man whowears a bow tie
Boberto (Julio Gassette), a dim-witted man
Some of the show's more well-known sketches are:
Ay, Mama: The general idea of the sketch is somebody will make some kind ofembarrassing gaffe, to which they will utter, "Ay, Mama!"
El Chiste Incomprensible (The incomprehensible Joke): a joke with a double entendre, usually in a sexual connotation.
Viejo, viejo,viejo, pero bueno, bueno, bueno (Old old old but good good good): a classic joke that still is funny.
Among the many comedians in this show are Landa's daughter Dayana, Ernesto Cortés and MaríaAntonieta Duque. She and Cortez ended up marrying in real life, but they later separated.
Bienvenidos is shown on networks throughout the Spanish-speaking world. One of those networks was Univision...
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