Roberto Gomez Bolaños

 Roberto Gomez Bolaños

Roberto Gomez Bolaños also known as Chespirito was the screenwriter and comedian who created several different sketches and movies in the 1970s and 1980s. Chespirito was able to make impressive and funny sketches out of mundane situations. Inspired by literature, Chespirito made his characters innocent and tender hearted. He also rebuked and critized greed, envy, and malice.

Chespirito was the screenwriter and comedian of the 1980s in Mexico and created impressive comedy characters. Known for creating el Chavo, la Chilindrina, Kiko, and Ñoño who represented innocence and childhood. Chespirito described the beauty of humility and happiness while displaying that greed, snitching, envy, and arrogance are not needed. He also created a superhero named the Red Cricket who vanquished the forces of evil with his mallet.

Chespirito also would create movies including a soccer movie called Chanfle. (Chanfle means spinning or bending the soccer ball.) The movie depicted a soccer player who is called up to play for the America Mexican Soccer Club. Chanfle was about soccer and also about seeing the humor of life. 

Chespirito would be one of the greatest comedians ever keeping his comedy positive without having to resort to vulgarity, non-sense, and cliché troupes. Chespirito also spoke about the need to avoid witches. La bruja del 71 (the witch of apartment 71) was a witch that everyone knew was a witch but attempted to act like she was good. The witch dressed in conservative garb yet everyone knew she was a witch. Everyone avoided the witch knowing she did not have good intentions.

The Renown of Chespirito

Chespirito was appreciated by all generations of Mexican, Mexican American, and Latin American viewers. He was appreciated by children and also by elder adults. It was rare to hear someone critique or hate Chespirito, and if there was such a person most likely they were socialists. Chespirito described the beauty of humanity and humility while repudiating greed, envy, and negativity. Chespirito most likely was Jewish and Mexican. 

In a Telethon to obtain funds for children with physical handicaps, he volunteered while not being in great health. Chespirito was loved by children that on one occassion, someone said to a kid that Chabelo was also on set, to which the kid proceeded to see Chabelo for a milisecond and went back to seeing Chespirito. Chespirito described that while life is not perfect, we can still have a sense of humor and have a positive mindset. (Despite the negative times that we live in, we can still have a sense of humor and choose to laugh at the negativity. It is a well known fact that socialists hate great humor and positivity.)