“The essential mission of the doctor is to relieve human pain,” said the doctor Edgar Vivar in an interview with CNN in 2014. He graduated and graduated in medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Even, as he recalled, he gave birth to several babies. But that race was interrupted after a phone call from Roberto Gómez Bolaños.
It was 1970 then Chespirito He called on him to be part of a project that would draw attention to different latitudes of the world over the years: El Chavo del 8, a comedy production that eventually shot 290 episodes.
‘Acting was an accidental way. I never realized he had talent as an actor. He was a good cinephile (…) but I never thought I’d devote myself to this. My mission and vision in life was to become a doctor ”, he acknowledged in the conversation.
In his professional health career, he specialized in obstetrics and worked for a year in a local practice. On that occasion, he said, he realized that “the patient often had to cope with his problems. Someone who will listen to him and who has a relationship with the doctor who unfortunately has lost a lot ”.
In the television comedy of Televisión Independiente de México, Vivar played the Mr. Belly, owner of the neighborhood where a series of characters lived – Doña Florinda, Don Ramón, La Chilindrina, El Chavo, Quico and Doña Clotilde – from whom he had to collect the rent. He also acted as Nerd, son of the businessman.
In a recent conversation with the Infobae portal, the Aztec comedian linked medicine with humor … and the covid-19 pandemic, which is physically limiting much of the world.
“(Comedy) is a social therapy for which I am very grateful… All this (covid-19) has brought about a lot of things that you can’t hug your people anymore, it teaches us to reassess and you’re watching a TV show now and since they can’t go out they take it with more attention and are interested more on the screen, ”he said.
“The offer is growing and one as a provider of laughter because it’s more challenging… I had to be my own competition on television, one with the boy and another with other projects,” he added.
In the interview, Vivar expressed surprise at the reception he still has El Chavo del 8 among the viewers. “It’s a mass phenomenon, it is an unreal thingNow I am doing a series and it turns out that I am my own league in the programs, I am amazed that everything has come this far… now with social networks, before we didn’t even dream of this, ”he said.
The comedian continues his work in the acting world. His latest appearances in films and soap series are Ratatouille, Despicable Me 3, Minions, The boss of the champion and Blind date.