Brod Pete
| Isko Salvador | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Herman Salvador |
| Born |
May 21, 1958 Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines |
| Website | Brod Pete's official Facebook fanpage |
Herman "Isko" Salvador (born May 21, 1958), also known as Brod Pete, is a Filipino actor, comedian and comedy scriptwriter. He is known for his "Ang Dating Doon" segment on the comedy show Bubble Gang, as a host of Celebrity Bluff, and his frequent use of the word "alien".
Herman Salvador was born in the municipality of Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1980 with a Bachelor of Communication Arts. He has mentioned that his idol is Dolphy, a Filipino comedian.
Salvador started his career as a scriptwriter. He began writing gags in the early 1980s. In the 1980s he was a comedy writer for the Philippine's longest-running comedy sitcom, John en Marsha, in which he also played a character named Iskô – giving rise to his stage name. After that sitcom ended, he wrote for other shows, including Plaza 1899, Home Along Da Riles, Champoy, Going Bananas, and Buddy en Sol.
Salvador became a head writer for the Bubble Gang TV show in the 1990s. He achieved national celebrity for a segment he wrote for the show, "Ang Dating Doon", a spoof of a popular late-1990s Philippine religious program, Ang Dating Daan (The Old Path). Salvador as Brod Pete (parodying televangelist Brother Eliseo Soriano), Cesar Cosme as Brother Willy, and Chito Francisco as Brother Jocel, quoted English fairy tales and Tagalog nursery rhymes in place of religious scriptures. The audience was promoted to join in the "fanatical chanting" of "Alien" instead of "Amen". The "Brod Pete" name is also a play on the name of American actor Brad Pitt, seeing how his name can sound like "Brod Pete" when pronounced with a Filipino accent.
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