“The doctor’s essential mission is to alleviate human pain,” the doctor said Edgar Vivar in an interview with CNN in 2014. He studied and graduated in Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In fact, as he remembered, he gave birth to several children. But the race was interrupted after a call from Roberto Gómez Bolaños.
It was 1970 when Chespirito He called him to be part of a project that, over the years, would attract attention in different latitudes of the world: El Chavo del 8, a comedy production that reached 290 episodes.
“Falling into acting was a fortuitous way. I never realized he had talent as an actor. He was an honest cinephile (…), but I never thought I would dedicate myself to this. My mission and vision in life was to be a doctor “, he admitted in the conversation.
In his professional career in health he specialized in obstetrics and worked for a year in a local practice. On the occasion, he said, he realized that “often the patient needed to face his problems. Someone who would listen to him and who has that relationship with the doctor who, unfortunately, lost a lot ”.
In the television comedy of the Independent Television of Mexico, Vivar played the role Mr. Burta, 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 like Nerd, the son of the businessman.
In a recent conversation with the Infobae portal, the Aztec comedian linked humor medicine … and the covid-19 pandemic, which keeps much of the world physically restricted.
“(Comedy) is a social therapy for which I am very grateful… All this (covid-19) has triggered a lot of things, that you can no longer hug your people, teach us to reevaluate and watch a TV show now and since I can’t go out, I take it with more attention and more people are interested on the screen, ”he said.
“The offer is growing as a provider of laughter, because it has a bigger challenge … I had to be my competition on TV, one with the boy and another with other projects,” he added.
In the interview, Vivar showed her amazement at the reception she still has El Chavo del 8 among viewers. “It’s a mass phenomenon, it is something surrealNow I do a series and it turns out that they are my own competition in programs, it amazes me that everything has come so far … now with social networks, before I didn’t even dream about it “, he said.
The comedian continues his activity in the world of acting. His latest appearances in movies and soap operas include Ratatouille, Despicable Me 3, petite, The champion’s boss and Unseen meeting.