When you ask him why humor is necessary on television, Arturo Valls (44 years old) is clear that humor is not only necessary on television, humor is necessary, period ... "Because without humor we would die. chasm. Humor makes us see situations from a distance, criticism, sarcasm . It is very necessary to take away the matter, "replies to Chronicle .

Arturo Valls has a half-life dedicated to television, half-life dedicated to making people laugh from a set, half-life dedicated to humor. Valls is a middle chameleon. Why chameleon? Because it doesn't matter because of the terrain that makes you walk that Arturo Valls adapts, changes, transforms, disguises himself, gets confused with the surroundings and walks and walks until he reaches the goal: to start laughing, entertain and, to others (and for him) achieve success in an increasingly overloaded television of stimuli in which the difficult thing is to choose and choose you.

He did not always touch the glory. There were failures. The yellow tile road does not exist . But always a smile started and that, in these times, it is a success. A smile without masks, without anger, without 'offenses' ... The smile for the smile, the laugh for the laugh, the easy laugh, the best laugh.

Maybe it's because of his philosophy of life. For Arturo, life is as simple as a long table , good friends , a good meal and as he shows in his social networks, enjoy everything he can about life, his son Martin (10 years old) and his partner, Patricia, with which he maintains a relationship for 9 years.

The simplicity of the complicated is probably the key that has turned the program of Antenna 3 Now I fall into the most watched in its time slot, even surpassing the enemy to beat, Save Me . Make the difficult easy. A success that has led him to be one of the 'favorites' of Atresmedia and ensure, for now, his future on television.

The secrecy around the income Arturo Valls obtains from the programs is absolute, as in most presenters. The presenter has a family business, Pólvora Films - Later , Los del tunnel -, to which Valls injected 1.5 million a week ago and that in 2017 - last year presented - had losses of more than 148,000, but had an equity of 2.7 million euros and after the injection of capital a result of 1,503,012 euros.

Valls arrived in Now I fall in 2011 and they have been occupying the throne of a more than complicated strip for 8 years. The format accumulates, according to December 2018 data from Kantar Media, an average audience in the afternoon range of between 14% -16% . It is one of the jewels of the crown of Antena 3 and all thanks to a good team, a good format and a well-occupied throne, that of 'King Arthur', the king of white humor . Connecting and laughing is his legacy.

But television humor is not easy. Making those who are on the other side of the screen laugh, those you neither see, feel, nor analyze, those who only know you for that little bit of business, is more than complicated. He has been doing it since more than two decades ago he decided to leave the journalism career for an opportunity on television . The dream of the small screen.

Arturo changed the notes on the receiver, the transmitter and the message by a push on Valencian television Valencia Te Ve with a program presented by Laura Pérez Vehí called La luna de Valencia . Not everyone had the luck (or rather the reward of a job well done) that had the actor, presenter, director and humorist (yes, all that and more), but he transformed again, adapted again , converted the tiles that were not yellow in their particular Oz .

CQC times

Those pinitos in a local television served as a push to make the jump to one of the greats, nothing more and nothing less than Telecinco , and nothing more and nothing less than Caiga who falls (1998), the program that at that time was transforming television entertainment and, why not say, the program that was a before and after in television journalism .

He was one of the boys of Greater Wyoming, one of those who knew neither shame nor blushing and who taught that the curling was coming to an end. Crazy reporterism was born and Arturo was part of that asylum . He ended up being the only madman who lived both stages of the program.

They raised many blisters, but also showed that humor could be made where no one believed there was. Unforgettable is that very young Arturo at the 2005 Valencia GP interviewing Jorge Lorenzo, delivering some condoms to the then more than international Esther Cañadas or leaving one of the most mythical moments of television in Spain: Arturo disguised as a flight attendant giving shade to the pilots.

The man in black who came last to the first CQC , who left at the end, and who returned when Telecinco wanted to give the program another chance. The only one that was always. And it was at CQC where he discovered that this humor was not to arrive and kiss the saint .

What has been the memory that has marked you on television? Pablo Carbonell I saw Pablo Carbonell as an uncle who filled stadiums, who had won the public and suddenly invited me to eat his house with 22 years, getting cooked and told me: 'Tomorrow, Esperanza Aguirre, and I'm going to ask this or I put this music on. ' And I realized that there was a lot of work behind . The humor is worked, is thinking. I realized that you have to work it out because the best improvisation is the thought. And I learned a lot from him.

Lesson that was recorded on fire. Because this Valencian native of Vergel knew how to get milk from that alcuza and became, of all the Iberian men in black , in which more television benefit he took out that black suit, those glasses and that funny insolence. He did not stop working and became, and every time he is more, in a member more of the Spanish homes, in a 'habitual' of the television ...

Humor and "common sense"

X how much? (2003), in Telemadrid and Canal Nou; License to watch (2003), in the regional ones; UHF and Los más (2004), in Antena 3; There you and Camera Café (2005), in Telecinco; Go troop (2009) -one of his failures-, in Cuatro; Splash! Famous to water (2013), in Antena 3; Ninja Warrior (2017) ... and add and follow. Until I fall from the sky to Now I fall , and from here they do not move him, fool who moved it!

Only Silvia Abril has been able to replace it and only for this summer, although Antena 3 loves him forever and ever. Thus, he has premiered a summer program with Por el mundo at 80 , a program about adults and adults, with which Valls connects perfectly, and that Arturo makes it entertaining for those in 80, for those in 40 and even for those of 20. Because Arturo Valls is one of the kings of humor, of humor made television.

How do you make humor on television? What changes is the scenery, the place, but the humor is the same as in other formats. The humor in television demands a time that is not that of the theater or a live performance, it requires a greater rhythm. On television, humor has to be more than laughter itself. It goes with the personality of each one. The one of Caiga who fell to the present and put those jokes or comic situations in a natural way. It has to do with personality. And now I fall is much more obvious, it has to do with the profile of the program. In Now I fall you are throwing the questions and you put your jokes. Should we set limits to humor or do we need more humor? Nor do we have to go crazy with freedom. You have to have education and certain limitations and, above all, take care of humor. You have to take into account and have some respect or say "with this I have passed". We give it too many laps and we generate our own controversy. It is true that the fact that someone goes to jail for telling a joke is a lot, but you have to have some self-criticism. In the end, the key is common sense.What has been the funniest thing on television this year? I still fall for something obvious, but I think it is the emergence of David Broncano in the late night. The explosion has been huge this year. I think the viewer sees that it is very cool, very personal. It is the triumph of internal humor, a very particular humor that becomes global. The freedom, the lack of corsetation, script, of a director marking a style. We see someone absolutely free who connects with the viewer. If a genie granted him three wishes, what would they be? Ugh, how difficult! I would have a clear one: write movies like Ernst Ludwig, comedy. If he didn't do this, what would he do? I would love to be a singer.

But Arturo was also a singer. Who could forget that Arturo Miley Cyrus, Shakira, Rihanna ... in Your face it sounds (2012). That is him, pure entertainment.

A tip for these troubled times ... Do what I have done today: take the bike through a mountain area, meet friends, make a paella and a long table. If we all enjoyed friends, drank, ate and did that, everything would be fixed.

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