Berto Romero reopens his office at Movistar Plus. The popular section that was part of Andreu Buenafuente’s Late Motiv is recovered starting this Monday with its own program in which the actor and comedian will once again try to resolve those questions that viewers ask him with his particular sense of humor and his vision of the world.
After having premiered on the platform the fiction series Look What You Have Done and The Other Side, Berto now wanted to propose “a simple, short, weekly format, of pure entertainment, without further pretensions” and “to reconnect a little with my essence of a comedian in a format that is practically that of a stand-up with a live audience.”
Original production by Movistar Plus in collaboration with El Terrat (The Mediapro Studio), Berto’s office was recorded at the Teatre Gaudí Barcelona, with a 360-degree stage and an audience on all sides, “which makes it very beautiful but a Sometimes it produces a slightly dizzying sensation,” confesses the comedian who is also currently seen in the narrative outreach program Ovejas electricas (La 2).
Each installment of the program lasts about 25 minutes and includes between five and seven audio queries and about two or three from the public, “in addition to some small gag that may occur due to the interaction between my assistant Andrés and me.” Everything is scripted, even queries made by members of the public who are asked for their content before making them. Berto defends it “as a kind of reaction to the improvisation that has taken over almost the entire field of comedy” and of which he himself is also a part with the Nadie Knows Nothing that he presents with Buenafuente on the Ser network.
The comedian advances that the top 3 most consulted topics are “practically the same now as when it was a section in Late Motiv: sex first, without a doubt, and then eschatology and animals, and within these, the cats subsection has a lot importance”.
When it comes to answering, Berto works together with two scriptwriters, Rafel Barceló and Júlia Cot. He applies the same criteria as in Late Motiv: “We listen to all the queries and if something suddenly occurs to you, you write it down. Then we all evaluate and decide. Normally those to whom something has occurred to the three of us, go to the program and then also those that one of the three of us is very clear about, too.” The answer always seeks “purely and solely to be funny, to entertain and amuse and nothing more. Comedy 100 per 100′.
Among the questions he will face in this new stage, Berto advances some such as “that of a man who asked me five years ago on Late Motiv if he was going bald and since I didn’t answer him, now he is angry with me and tells me to fry asparagus because now he has gone bald; another person asking why cats supposedly get scared when you show them a cucumber because they apparently think it’s a snake; someone who doubts the existence of the Moon because of the movements he sees on it; or someone who has to give a speech at his cousin’s wedding and doesn’t know what to say.”
