The actor Yoyo Boing was left with “an idea that can curdle and stick,” which he brought to journalist Jorge Rivera Nieves in what is believed to be his last interview, who died last Thursday at the age of 93.
“You’re in” and “I’ll tell you later,” he shared in the conversation with Rivera Nieves, broadcast by Telemundo’s Día a Día, part of a personal project whose details are reserved for now.
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“It was very emotional,” he said SPOKESMAN the Telenoticias presenter, whose voice broke as he recalled the meeting.
“I get emotional because, as I confess, the surest things we have in life are taxes and death, and I found Yoyo tender. Good, in perfect condition but delicate. Although with his clear, clear and alert mind, I knew that I was dealing with a person who would soon evolve out of this material plane,” revealed Rivera Nieves.
The journalist met Luis Antonio Rivera, the comedian’s first name, when he served as master of ceremonies for an event where the artist was scheduled to perform.
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“The experience I had with other comedians performing was that they performed with double entenders and vulgarity. Before I started and introduced Yoyo, I asked him if the content was like that. His answer was quick and categorical: “Jorge, to make people laugh you don’t have to disrespect them.” That was in Jayuya in 1970,” he remembers.
In the interview, which took place last October, Yoyo Boing said he felt fulfilled.
“I don’t know if I’ll like my job. I do what I like, the public won’t like it, and my wife told me: “You have to decide what you want to do, you have no experience working in something like this” and look, working for years, things do well, work healthily. You can do anything well,” he told Rivera Nieves that he would like to be remembered.
Likewise, he thanked the colleagues who have nurtured his career, which has included being a pioneer of Puerto Rican television since its beginnings in 1954, working on comedy programs and soap operas such as María Lola and Cáliz de Plata. He was also part of the Midday Show.
A distinctive voice for your audience
While speaking to the news anchor, Rivera missed the WIPR program “Desde mi pueblo,” where he had been since the ribbon cutting.
“We went to a house where there was a blind woman. A house on a hill. You had to leave the car downstairs. We go up the little hill and I say “Well let’s see if they give me coffee here” and the blind lady says “Yoyo, what are you doing here?”. (I tell her) I came to see you and her: it’s a pity I can’t see you. So you can tell by the voice,” Yoyo said.
Rivera Nieves replied that the interview was conducted with a lot of love. “And in my opinion, Tommy Muñiz, Paquito Cordero, Machuchal, Agrelot, Norma Candal, Velda González, the great pioneers of the world of entertainment, are gone for the moment, I believe that.” “Yoyo is the last bastion that we of left these generations,” he commented on the announcer and librettist, who dedicated himself to artistic work for over seven and a half decades.
“However, it comforts me greatly when I remember a verse by Eugenio María de Hostos that says: There is no death, the body is matter and what is matter does not die, it transforms.” On the other hand, that Spirit, what it is, and what it is, evolves, but does not go away,” the journalist reflected.
At press time, it was not yet clear whether his funeral would be public or private.