The Broncano mystery: is it like that or is it done?

“I lived with a partner in a 40 square meter apartment and we had it a little destroyed, it was a little embarrassing.

But he liked to come to play some games of board games.

He would show up sometimes, I don't know, with a friend, without warning.

And he was so happy if we brought him some pickles and something to drink.”

The comedian Sergio Bezos speaks this way about his friend David Broncano (Santiago de Compostela, 39 years old), whom he met a while ago, a week before the Filomena storm, “when he was already David Broncano and that had me very nervous.”

But a game of paddle tennis and a meal later with the comedians Jorge Ponce and Pablo Ibarburu were enough for what Bezos has felt about the presenter of

La Resistencia

,

a Movistar Plus+ program that has just completed six years on the air.

“He is interested in people, and that is not so normal.

I, who am an egomaniac, am always thinking about my jokes, not about others,” she says.

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David Broncano, the comedian who asks the most questions and about whom the least is known

Perhaps that scene, a sofa on which more people sit than can fit, having an aperitif in a room where the vacuum cleaner has not been vacuumed for a long time, where one of the fashion presenters spends the afternoon, explains part of the fame and the recognition of this Galician with a Jaén accent.

Because he gives the image that he takes what is fair seriously, that he enjoys what he does but without going crazy, that everything happens like this, as if by inertia, without the need to mention that he works 24 hours a day.

The Advertising student whom we saw for the first time in the

Metro a metro

contest , on Telemadrid, in 2006, who participated in

El club de la comedia,

in radio programs such as

Yu: Don't miss anything

and

Modern Life,

he presented the humor news program

Loco mundo

and now he does it with

The Resistance,

he seems like an extraordinarily normal guy.

One of ours, one of those who fit into the colleagues' WhatsApp group.

Maybe he is one of those who send

stickers

, or one of the others, one of those who read more than interact.

He could be one of the family, biological or chosen.

Cousin David.

One of those who stoically endure when the heaviest of almost any social group says: “What's wrong, Deivid?”, and pats him on the back.

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 to the guests almost as much as himself, that he received a mare as a gift from Bertín Osborne, that he asked María Teresa Campos to dance and also that he drove María Pombo crazy.

“Maybe who you think are your reddest friends are Albert Rivera and others,” he told the

influencer

to the laughter of the public, after she entered the program asking for the anthem of Spain and did not know what the moment consisted of. of consecration in a Eucharist.

Álex Pinacho has been working with him as a producer for years.

Enough time to confirm that Broncano “doesn't work on being close to him, that's just the way it is.”

That his reputation for being competitive is real, and that success in his field has not made him crazy, “because he was already crazy before.”

That he has little interest in awards, notoriety, or people talking about him.

Going from a “niche” program like

Modern Life

to bringing together more than 8,000 people at the Wizink Center to close the program's tour in 2019 had him with his feet on the ground at all times.

David Broncano, at the presentation of 'The Resistance' in January 2018.Samuel de Roman (Getty Images)

“He is empathetic and a genius.

He has emotional intelligence and does not give off status,” says Bezos, who analyzes Broncano's triumph in this way: “David's success consists of the fact that he has made a program to not work, because he is a kind of walking leisure.”

As if the motto that underpins his life was that phrase from the much-missed Mila Ximénez: “I'll laugh at her.”

And that is precisely what sometimes turns against them.

When he projects that sloppiness that exasperates, that he doesn't hide, I don't care who comes to have fun tonight.

“Take care of it, man,” actress Nathalie Poza told him after a few minutes of interview that seemed eternal, crazy.

Elevator conversations, the boring ones, you understand.

“Let's see, what do you have questions about, chufla or music?”, as the trap singer La Zowi reproached him after Broncano asked her, among other things, to choose the city with the best Wi-Fi of all those in the who has lived and his favorite river.

That irritating thing is not having prepared so thoroughly and believing that everything will turn out just because, because it has already 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 onwards.

To record the next program.

That “particular” way of interviewing that some critics say, a euphemism like any other to say that their thing is not, precisely, getting the most out of whoever sits on their program.

That combination of heterosexuality and Peterpanism, a parrot hut where quinoa is eaten for dinner to eliminate prejudices.

The straight comedians, who take up everything, as Isa Calderón and Lucía Litjmaer, from the

podcast

Deforme Semanal

, reminded him, before reconciling during their visit to

The resistance

.

Those jokes about Torbe, the porn film director convicted of child pornography crimes, in the interview with YouTuber

Wismichu

.

“As Pilar Miró told Pedro Piqueras when she offered to present TVE news: 'A camera takes an x-ray.

You can fool the camera for a few days, a few weeks, a month, but not much more.'

Broncano knows this and does not deceive,” says screenwriter Paloma Rando, who says that the presenter plays with strangeness.

And maybe that's it.

That he is a strange guy who is at the same time close, a competitive guy who is also lazy.

A

pachacho

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