( Medellin , Colombia , November 27 of 1924 — October 17 of 1997.)
Guillermo Zuluaga Montecristo is the man pictured above, and he is — from what little I’ve read — purported to be the most famous comedian of Columbia’s twentieth century.
To celebrate the day he left the military, he publicly imitated his commanders and peers, and it was met with such success he later tried his luck on the variety program Radio Cultura, and in a way — though I’ll have to read more into it — it reminds me of Jack Benny and Spike Milligan — though, again: in its way.
He tried singing on the show, and it was a disaster, but then he was asked if he wanted to tell a joke, and told this —
A gringo says to a man from Antioquia, “In my country there are people so fast that once a man threw a coin from the top of the Empire State building and went running downstairs and he was able to catch it with his hand” to what the man from Antioquia replies, “That’s a fast man, but I have a brother who is even faster. The other day he started running around a column so fast that he would poke himself in the back so he would get out of the way.”
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