From Rafi Escobedo to El Risitas: Jesús Quintero's best television moments

• Jesus Quintero dies

His handkerchief, his silences, his microphone.

And her characters.

Jesús Quintero was a media star thanks to his therapeutic tone and his duende of the soliloquy, very much like the final phrases of the first theatrical act, but above all for getting guests who had a lot to say, and said it well or used a language that did not need a translator or transcription.

Whether due to the intensity of the speech or the laughter of

, in front of him was a first-rate intellectual, a prisoner or a geek.

Conversations that, at a time when the

, have remained in the sentimental memory of Spain.

Rafael Escobedo

Convicted of the murder of the Marquises of Urquijo, an event that shocked the country,

spoke exclusively with Quintero a few days before committing suicide.

Shocking excerpts emerged from the interview.

. It is no longer that I am destroying, it is that it has already destroyed me. I was a kid and I knew where I was standing and I knew where the right and the left were," he assured.

(...).

The only thing I need to finish is the little box with the little cross on it.

The rest, practically, I have achieved everything,"

Diego Maradona

"When did you find out you were an artist?"

Quintero asked the Argentine star, Sevilla's star signing after his abrupt departure from Napoli due to drug problems.

"I don't know, it all came to me too soon."

Few times did the 10 speak with as much sincerity as before Quintero.

Anthony Gala

Close friends, the Quintero-Gala duo starred in 13 highly successful programs in conversations that dealt with all kinds of topics: death, love... The Cordovan writer dominated the television scene and captivated the viewer with his canes, his immaculate pose and a fascinating sharpness.

The journalist recorded these intimate conversations in the book

.

Juan Joya Borja.

'The Giggles'

His laughter went viral before the existence of the meme (which he also managed to conquer) and was more contagious than Covid.

Surrealist genius who without palettes was the king of

Santiago Segura signed him for

and, of course, with an entry on Wikipedia.

He became famous in France, Finland and the USA.

In 2014 he used the video of the fundamentalist group 'Muslim Brothers' to ridicule an enemy general.

The Hunchback of Notre-Barbate.

'pozi'

He rose to fame in

thanks to his 'no conversations' with Quintero.

Her tagline 'po zi' is already part of the collective imagination as well as her prodigious memory for remembering soap opera phrases.

Manuel Reyes died in Barbate in 2012.

Subcommander Marcos

One of the most impressive interviews was the one he got with the leader of the Zapatista rebellion and at that time without an official biography and hidden under a balaclava.

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- Do you aspire to power?

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-No.

Not only do we not aspire but it causes us revulsion.

We think that power has another logic, a fundamentally inhuman logic;

this easy account that it is possible to kill one so that many live, this cynicism of the account of humanity that is the one that is permeating up there.

What we think should be built down there, or down here, something else, where the life of the collective is worth the same as the life of the individual.

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Antonio Escohotado

Immortal talk with the thinker in which the divine and the human are discussed, which brought younger generations closer to the character.

A bull

Even the animals told Quintero things.

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