Cha Cha Cha (TV show)

Cha Cha Cha
Created by	Alfredo Casero
Starring	Alfredo Casero, Mex Urtizberea, Fabio Alberti, Diego Capusotto, Rodolfo Samsó, Pablo Cedrón, Vivian El Jaber, Mariana Briski, Sandra Monteagudo, Daniel Marín, Gisela Gaeta, Alejandra Flechner, Jorge Takashima, Martín Pavlovsky, Lito Ming, Claudia Disti, Santiago Ríos, Iván Moschner, Romina Sznaider
Country of origin	Argentina
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Release
Original network	América TV
Original release	1992 – 1997

Cha Cha Cha was an Argentine sketch comedy television program aired in the 1990s on América TV, starring Alfredo Casero, Fabio Alberti, Diego Capusotto, and others. It was characterized by absurd humour, often improvised and sometimes bordering on the surreal. The show made the actors famous, and is considered as a classic in the history of Argentine television. In 2012 it was announced by Casero that the show could return as a motion picture, but since the announcement no further developments have been made.

The cycle began in 1992, after the separation of the group of actors that performed the TV comedy show De la cabeza. The show was first known only as Cha Cha Cha; in the last three seasons, a subtitle was added. In 1995 it was Dancing en el Titanic; in 1996 El Estigma del Dr. Vaporeso; and the last season was La parrilla del Xeñor. The last program was aired on August 13, 1997, and was then cancelled because of low ratings.

Casero himself announced the cancellation of the show, and described it like this: "It had that half and half... with the guarangadas(crude, uneducated words) that we used to say... We like the refiné stuff, and we also like that funny thing of getting your fingers into mayonnaise to catch an olive." Soon afterwards, in an interview, he stated the reason for the cancellation flatly: "There's no place on television for our show... If I had a TV channel I'd fire the folks of Cha cha cha too."

The style of some sketches are similar to Monty Python's Flying Circus, making them sometimes difficult to understand. Other were parodies, such as Juan Carlos Batman, where Casero played an Argentine (and fat) version of Batman, or Siddharta Kiwi, a skinny fakir or guru performed by Diego Capusotto, who proposed unconventional solutions to everyday problems.

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