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Carlitos Balá: a life making kids laugh on radio, TV and theater

Carlitos Balá: a life making kids laugh on radio, TV and theater

In fact, he worked at line 39 of groups, where it is remembered that he used to make jokes to bring out the vice.

Then he participated in a radio contest that he finally won, under the name of Carlos Valdez. He had changed his last name for fear of being challenged. In that medium he was going to play a very nervous character that he made laugh from day one.

began to participate in The Musical Telekermese on Channel 7, they also offered him to be Joe Bazooka and participated in El show de Antonio Prieto and in El show de Paulette Christian, and with his character of Jacobo Gómez he participated in Radio Splendid. In 1962 he participated in Telecomicos, on Channel 9 and in Calle Corrientes, on Channel 7, as well as in El show super 9 with Mirtha Legrand and Duilio Marzio.

In 1963 he made his debut in the play Canuto Cañete, Conscrito del Siete, and due to his great success on Channel 9 he was hired to host his own series Balamicina. At the end of that year he filmed the movie Canuto Cañete, conscript of the seven.

In 1964 he was hired by Channel 13 to star in El soldier Balá, and began a long television career during the 1960s and 1970s with the programs El flequillo de Balá, El clan de Balá, Circular Saturdays, Balabasadas, El circus show. by Carlitos Balá, The Magical Circus of Carlitos Balá, and The Carlitos Balá Show.

A prolific film career

Throughout his life, he participated in no less than 18 films: Canuto Cañete and the 40 thieves, This is joy!, Brigade in action, Uncle Disparate, How beautiful is my family!, among others. All in a tone of traditional or family comedy, under the tone of white humor.

In 1979 he was hired to star in El show de Carlitos Balá, by Enrique Acosta, working in the intervened state channel, ATC. He then went on several tours of the interior with the circus.

In 1987, Roberto Fontana hired him to participate in Saturdays of Kindness. He then he was summoned again by ATC. That same year he returned with El show de Carlitos Balá, which won a Martín Fierro for best children’s program.

In 1988 the program went to Channel 2, and that same year he made his last film appearance in Tres alegrías fugitives, by Enrique Dawi. He remembers a bolus in A love in times of selfies with Martín Bossi.

In 1990, ATC produced a program with Carlitos Balá and Margarito Tereré’s troupe that lasted only a short time on the air.

In 1995 Carlitos Balá starred in Play with Teddy and Carlitos Balá. He later participated in cycles such as Son de ten and Como vos y yo on Channel 13.

On September 2, 2009, he was invited to Julián Weich’s Justo a Tiempo program broadcast by Telefe and promised to donate the famous “lollipop meter” so that the tradition of helping children to give up pacifiers would continue. Carlitos himself said that he had it in the living room of his house and invited the boys to leave their pacifier when they visited him.

In recent years he has toured the interior of Argentina with his circus. In 2009 she accompanied the clown Piñón Fijo in his show and in 2011 she participated with the children’s host Laura Franco in the show Panam y Cirque, as a special guest.

That year was going to be special: he received recognition for his career at the Martín Fierro Awards, and line 39 decided to plot the windows of his buses as a gift for his 86th birthday.

In 2017, in one of his last appearances, he was honored at show matchon Channel 13.

Great author of phrases that remained in the memory

He was the author of phrases like “sumbudrule”, “Angueto stay still” and “what tastes like salt”, but he also established the “lollipop meter”, in which the children would leave the pacifier there.

Precisely, one of his most remembered phrases is when he said: “What does salt taste like?!!” and all the boys answered yelling “Salaaaado!!!”.

The artist himself said that the idea was born in 1969, on a quiet afternoon in Mar del Plata, when a boy looked at him attentively and Balá, pretending not to see him, asked several times out loud: “The sea! What will it taste like?” the sea?”.

The boy remained silent and he continued: “Ahhh, the sea tastes like salt. But what does salt taste like?” And before running away the boy replied: “But how tasteful is salt! Salty!”. And so a success was born that spanned four generations.

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