La hora chanante is where it all started, my first job as a television music composer, and my first appearance on camera as DJ Pollo. For five seasons, the program, which premiered on the first Sunday of each month, brought together different fixed parts and a varying number of sketches around a central piece that we called ‘Continuidades’. The protagonist, a celebrity, was always played by Joaquin Reyes, with a Manchego accent, and was the character from the ‘Testimonios’ part of the previous program.

The show debuted on February 2, 2002, on Paramount Comedy.

Although the first episodes had a very small audience (as it was broadcast on a pay cable channel, it did not reach the general public), gradually, and thanks to fans uploading it to a primitive YouTube, the series became more relevant and a reference in Spanish comedy. For the 15th anniversary of the show’s premiere, Comedy Central produced the documentary ‘Los años chanantes’, which shows the show’s great influence on the country’s popular culture and all the new generations of comedians that followed.

In the series, I composed all the original music. I also worked as a character designer, graphic designer, and animator in two of the four headlines that the series had in its five seasons, in addition to making the animated piece ‘The Naturals’ with Luis Ballesteros.

Client: Paramount Comedy
Production company: Paramount Comedy
Genre: sketch comedy TV show
Year of production: 2002-2007