Pedro Reyes (8 May 1961 – 25 March 2015) was a Spanish comedian, humorist, actor and television presenter. He was known for his
surreal humour
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and collaboration with in the 1980s.
Biography
Reyes was born in
Tangier
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the c ...
,
Morocco
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, in 1961 but early on moved with his family to
Huelva
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, Spain, the birth city of his mother.
[ In 1977 he joined the theatre group Centuria. During the 1980s together with Pablo Carbonell, he formed the comedy duo Pedro y Pablo, working first out of ]Sevilla
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. ...
and later, in 1982, Madrid. The duo was discovered in the Buen Retiro Park
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in Madrid by an El País
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It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El ...
journalist, and soon afterwards they became recurring characters in the television show '' La Bola de Cristal''.[
In 1989 Reyes became co-host of the television show . Apart from his work in television and comedy he also appeared in movies and directed two theatre plays in 2013.][
Apart from his ]Andalusia
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n accent Reyes was known for his appearance: long, bald with spiky hair and a mustache. Reyes died of a heart attack on 25 March 2015 in Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...
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1961 births
2015 deaths
People from Tangier
Spanish comedians
Spanish humorists
Spanish male actors
Spanish surrealist artists
Surreal comedy
Spanish stand-up comedians