Luis Piedrahita Cuesta (born 1977) is a Spanish stand-up comedian, magician, script writer, broadcaster and author. He is known as "El Rey de las Cosas Pequeñas" ("The King of Small Things"), due to his monologues in which he critiques the lack of regard of everyday things such as toilet lids,
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Early life and education
He was born in
A Coruña
A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...
, Spain on February 19, 1977. Although his mother's family is from Pego, he went to school at "Santa María del Mar", of the Jesuits. Luis also went to the Adormideras school for a short period of time. He became a magic fanatic at a very young age and won several prizes. In 1998, he won second place in the magic contest at the congress of
MagicValongo in Portugal. A year later, he was named the Magic Champion of Spain. Luis Piedrahita also won the First Contest of Monologues on the TV Spanish television show "The Comedy Club." After that, he became a script writer and actor on the show.
Luis Piedrahita studied Audiovisual Communications at the
University of Navarra
The University of Navarra is a private Catholic research university located on the southeast border of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of '' Opus Dei'', as a corporat ...
and specialized in script writing. After graduating, he was hired b
Telecinco''(one of the largest TV networks of Spain)''. In September 2008 he had his gallbladder removed and auctioned it off on the popular television show
El Hormiguero. The profits were donated to the children affected by the
West Syndrome.
Career
He became widely known as scriptwriter in three seasons of the Spanish TV program ''El Club de la Comedia'' (''The Comedy Club''). In addition to working on the series ''Partners in Crime'' for Columbia Tri Star Pictures in Los Angeles, US, he occasionally collaborates in the Spanish TV program
El Hormiguero. He has published two books: ''Un cacahuete flotando en una piscina'' ("A peanut floating in a swimming pool", 2005) and ''¿Cada cuánto hay que echar a lavar un pijama?'' ("How often should you wash your pyjamas?", 2006)
In 1999 he won the Spanish ''Premio Nacional de Magia'' (National Magic Award).
He co-directed and co-wrote the 2007 thriller ''La habitación de Fermat'', later released internationally as ''
Fermat's Room''.
He has been collaborating with his writing partner
Rodrigo Sopeña for more than 12 years, since they went together to the university. They wrote a script for an animation Spanish studio
Ilion Animation Studios and their next project will be ''
Golpe de efecto'', a heist movie "with no guns".
In 2016 he won an
Academy of the Magical Arts Award.
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*http://www.luispiedrahita.com
1977 births
Living people
Spanish male comedians
Spanish stand-up comedians
Film directors from Galicia (Spain)
Spanish magicians
Card magic
Coin magic
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