Bienvenidos
Encyclopedia
Bienvenidos is a Venezuela
n sketch comedy
television
show. Produced and hosted by Miguel Ángel Landa
, the show was produced by Venevisión
from 1982 until 2001, when the show moved to Televen
for its final season. It has been taped both at Venevisión's studios and on location across Venezuela.
Aired weekly, it consists of 20 to 25 comic sketches that usually take on couples, homosexuals, doctors and other members of society as the target of their jokes. Most of the sketches have a sexual edge to them.
Some of the most popular characters on the show include:
Some of the show's more well-known sketches are:
Among the many comedians in this show are Landa's daughter Dayana, Ernesto Cortez and María Antonieta 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
in the United States
, which carried the program during the 1990s. Its Galavision
channel currently carries repeats of the program.
Each title is hosted by Maria Antonieta Duque.
Bienvenidos is similar in format to a Canadian sketch comedy, You Can't Do That on Television
, but it is intended to an adult audience.
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n sketch comedy
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
show. Produced and hosted by Miguel Ángel Landa
Miguel Ángel Landa
Miguel Ángel Landa is a Venezuelan actor, stand-up comedian, and television personality best known for hosting the sketch comedy show, Bienvenidos.-External links:...
, the show was produced by Venevisión
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...
from 1982 until 2001, when the show moved to Televen
Televen
Televen is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it's also called Canal de Horizonte. Televen was inaugurated as the ‘’TELEVEN Corporation’’ on July 3 1988 by Omar Camero and Radioven, S.A...
for its final season. It has been taped both at Venevisión's studios and on location across Venezuela.
Aired weekly, it consists of 20 to 25 comic sketches that usually take on couples, homosexuals, doctors and other members of society as the target of their jokes. Most of the sketches have a sexual edge to them.
Some of the most popular characters on the 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 of a 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 Cortez), a gay character that occasionally starts 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 man who wears 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 of embarrassing 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.
Among the many comedians in this show are Landa's daughter Dayana, Ernesto Cortez and María Antonieta 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
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, which carried the program during the 1990s. Its Galavision
Galavisión
Galavisión is a Miami, Florida based Spanish language cable network owned by Univision Communications, Inc. The station is unrelated to the Mexican channel of the same name, other than sharing the Televisa-produced programming.-History:...
channel currently carries repeats of the program.
DVD releases
Venevision Home Entertainment has released several themed collections of sketches from the show on DVD. The titles are:- Bienvenidos en la playa (Bienvenidos on the Beach)
- Bienvenidos en la alcoba (Bienvenidos in the Bedroom)
- Bienvenidos en el restaurante (Bienvenidos in the Restaurant)
- Lo mejor de Bienvenidos: Sus Personajes (The Best of Bienvenidos: The Characters)
- Bienvenidos en la oficina (Bienvenidos at the Office)
Each title is hosted by Maria Antonieta Duque.
Bienvenidos is similar in format to a Canadian sketch comedy, You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981...
, but it is intended to an adult audience.