Bienvenidos
| Bienvenidos | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Miguel Ángel Landa |
| Written by | Miguel Ángel Landa Raúl Zenteno |
| Directed by | Miguel Ángel Landa |
| Presented by | Miguel Ángel Landa |
| Starring | Gustavo González Kike Corona Ernesto Cortés María Antonieta Duque Gabriela Fleuri Katherine Pardo Gustavo Camacho Isabelina Zapata Beba Rojas Julio Gassette Dayana Landa Yulika Krausz Bienvenido Roca José Luis Useche |
| Country of origin | Venezuela |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Miguel Ángel Landa |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Venevision (1982-2001) Televen (2001-2002) |
| Original release | 1982 – 2002 |
| External links | |
| www |
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Bienvenidos (Spanish for "Welcome") is a Venezuelan 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. During its latest years, most of the sketches had 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 Cortés 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, it's Galavision channel currently carries repeats of the program.
Venevision Home Entertainment has released several themed collections of sketches from the show on DVD. The titles are:
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.
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