Radio Rochela | |
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Genre | Sketch Comedy |
Created by | Tito Martínez del Box |
Written by | Alvaro Ignacio "Nacho" Palacios |
Starring | Juan Ernesto López Cayito Aponte Elisa Parejo Juan Carlos Barry Félix Granados Napoleon Rivero Alexander Noguera Norah Suárez Carlos Rodríguez Coco Sánchez Hilda Fuenmayor Ivette Dominguez Roy Díaz Karen Leiba Gladiuska Acosta Héctor Vargas Joseline Rodriguez Marinés Hernández Alexxey Córdova |
Opening theme | "La Cruzada del Buen Humor" |
Country of origin | Venezuela |
Original language(s) | Spanish |
No. of seasons | 51 |
No. of episodes | 2,652 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Wladimir Gimenez |
Location(s) | Venezuela |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Radio Caracas Televisión RCTV, C.A. Empresas 1BC |
Distributor | (worldwide) |
Release | |
Original network | RCTV |
Original release | 1959 – April 5, 2010 |
External links | |
Website | www |
Radio Rochela was a Venezuelan late-night television sketch comedy and variety show, created by Argentine producer .
The show premiered on Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), a terrestrial television network in Caracas from 1959 to 2010, under the original title of La Cruzada del Buen Humor.
The show's sketches parodied contemporary Venezuelan culture and Politics. Each week, the show featured a host who is currently an RCTV telenovela actor or actress who is pranked and performs in sketches with the cast.
Throughout its five decades on air, Radio Rochela has been recognized as ‘’the most important comedy show on Venezuela’’ . Radio Rochela was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records as the comedy television show in history longest, being air uninterrupted for 5 decades. Cast members included Juan Ernesto López, Cayito Aponte, Elisa Parejo, Juan Carlos Barry, Americo Navarro, Félix Granados, Napoleon Rivero, Olimpia Maldonado, Ricardo Pimentel, Alexander Noguera, Norah Suárez, Perucho Conde, Carlos Rodríguez, Coco Sánchez, Hilda Fuenmayor, Ivette Dominguez, Roy Díaz, Karen Leiba, Gladiuska Acosta, Ricardo Gruber, Héctor Vargas, Joseline Rodriguez, Marinés Hernández and Alexxey Córdova.
In the year 1959, a group of students at the Central University of Venezuela decided to begin a series of comedy acts at the architecture school. These students included Cayito Aponte, Charles Barry, Juan Ernesto Lopez (Pepeto), and Beto Parra , to name a few. The Argentine producer Tito Martinez Del Box, saw one of their presentations and liked it so much that he invited these students to participate in the El Show de las Doce, hosted by Victor Saume. La Gran Cruzada del Buen Humor thus became one of the most popular segments on this midday show.