“I was living in a 40 square meter apartment with a partner and we had destroyed it a bit, it was a bit embarrassing.” But he was happy to come and play a few board games. Sometimes, who knows, he would show up with a friend without warning. And he was so happy when we brought him a few cucumbers and something to drink.†This is how the comedian Sergio Bezos speaks about his friend David Broncano (Santiago de Compostela, 39 years old), whom he met some time ago, a week ago the Filomena Storm, “when his name was already David Broncano and that made me very nervous.” €. But a game of paddle tennis and a meal later with comedians Jorge Ponce and Pablo Ibarburu were enough for what Bezos has since fallen in love with the host of The Resistance, a Movistar Plus+ show that has just been on the air for six years. “He's interested in people, and that's not so normal.” I'm an egomaniac and I always think about my jokes, not to others,” he says.
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Maybe this scene, a sofa with more people sitting on it than can fit in it, is an aperitif in a room that hasn't been vacuumed for a long time, where one of the fashionable presenters is spending the afternoon, he explains. Part of the fame and recognition of this Galician with a Jaén accent. Because he gives the impression that he takes justice seriously, that he enjoys what he does without going crazy, that everything happens as if out of inertia, without him having to mention that he is working 24 hours a day day works.
The advertising student who we first saw in 2006 at the Metro competition on Telemadrid and who took part in El Club de la Comedia, in radio shows such as Yu: Don't miss anything and Modern Life, presented the In the newsreel full of crazy world humor and now that he's doing it with The Resistance, he seems like an exceptionally normal guy. One of us, one of those who fits into the colleagues' WhatsApp group. Maybe it's one of those who sends stickers, or the others who read more than interact. It could be someone from the family, biological or chosen. Cousin David. One of those who stoically endures it when the heaviest of all social groups says, “What's wrong, Deivid?” and pats him on the shoulder.
With Broncano we learned the term “Pachacho”, we know that he likes tennis and Roger Federer, Monty Python and all the people from La hora chanante. That he hesitates the guests almost as much as he does himself, that he was given a mare by Bertín Osborne, that he asked María Teresa Campos to dance and also that he drove María Pombo crazy. “Perhaps, in your opinion, Albert Rivera and others are your reddest friends,” he told the influencer to the laughter of the audience after she came into the program and asked about the anthem of Spain, not knowing what the moment of consecration in a Eucharist is of .
Álex Pinacho has been working with him as a producer for years. Enough time to confirm that Broncano “isn't working on his proximity, that's just the way it is.” That his reputation for being competitive is real and that success in what he does hasn't driven him crazy,” because he was already crazy before.” That he has little interest in awards, notoriety or people talking about him. The transition from a “niche program” like “Modern Life” to bringing together more than 8,000 people at the Wizink Center at the conclusion of the program’s tour in 2019 kept his feet firmly on the ground.
David Broncano, at the presentation of “The Resistance” in January 2018. Samuel de Roman (Getty Images)
“He is sensitive and a genius. He has emotional intelligence and doesn't give off status,” says Bezos, who analyzes Broncano's triumph this way: “David's success is that he did a program that doesn't work because it's a kind of walking leisure activity.” As if that The motto that underlies her life, the sentence of the missing Mila Ximénez, would be: “I will laugh at her.”
And that is exactly what sometimes turns against them. If he projects this sloppiness that drives him to despair and that he doesn't hide, I don't care who comes to have fun tonight. “Stop it, man,” actress Nathalie Poza told him after a few minutes of interview that seemed endless and crazy. Elevator conversations, the boring ones, you know? “Let's see, what do you have questions about, Chufla or music?”, accused the trap singer La Zowi after Broncano asked her, among other things, to choose the city with the best Wi-Fi of all that is lived and yours Favorite river.
The annoying thing is that you don't prepare thoroughly and you think that everything will happen just because it's happened on other occasions and it always happens the same way. A few jokes about foosball tables and bumper cars, colleagues, aunts, drugs, some viral jokes and so on. To record the next program. This “special” style of interview that some critics say is as euphemism as any to say that they aren't exactly concerned with getting the most out of whatever is in their program.
This combination of heterosexuality and Peterpanism, a parrot hut where quinoa is eaten for dinner to break down prejudices. The straight comedians who take on everything reminded him Isa Calderón and Lucía Litjmaer from the podcast “Deforme Semanal” before reconciling during their visit to The Resistance. These jokes about Torbe, the porn film director convicted of child pornography crimes, in an interview with YouTuber Wismichu.
“As Pilar Miró said to Pedro Piqueras when she offered him to anchor the TVE news: “A camera takes an X-ray of you.” “You can fool the camera for a few days, a few weeks, a month, but not much longer.” Broncano knows this and is not deceiving, says screenwriter Paloma Rando, who says that the presenter is playing with strangeness. And maybe that's it. That he's a weird guy who's close at the same time, a competitive guy who's lazy at the same time. A pachacho
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