He is Ave Jaramillo, the humorist from Quito who presents ‘El After’ on Teleamazonas

Birdthat’s what they called him at school, but his first name is Esteban Jaramillo. Born in Quito in 1981 and with a creative soul, Bird he decided to study the field of human sciences and over time he leaned towards entertainment. He studied literature, worked as a screenwriter and gained experience in television and radio programs.

“Time led me to the cameras, to the stage. That’s where I tried it stand up comedy and I started acting,” reveals the current host of the afterevening program Teleamazon. He stand upthen comes by chance.

“A friend’s play had to be canceled because he had an accident and when I went to the theater to cancel his performance they suggested that the comedy be adapted to a format stand up and let me do it,” he says. That’s where his learning process began that has developed and has made him a prominent face of Ecuadorian comedy.

16 years have passed since that first encounter with the stage: “It was very difficult because nobody dared stand up Here it was a process of learning by failing and learning by hitting. During this journey I was able to discover a genre that I love, the types of jokes, the types of presentations, the stage tools, and I started to apply that bit by bit in my show”.

His first big project came about when he stopped doing it shows in cafeterias and migrated to the theater. “First it was the theater of a bar and then I was already in the patio of comedies and started doing stand up at theatre. Then that got me TV connection, WhatI grew up when I arrived,” recalls the comedian.

Although he already dominates the stage presence, he admits that it is still difficult for him to improve himself: “Competition is strong in it stand up now more and more people and more talent are on stageso making a name for itself in the industry has taken a lot of work and also a lot of perseverance”.

He is proud of his current projects: “the after It is the second political satire program I have on national television. In early 2022, when I was deciding what to do with my year, he called me Victor Arauz whom I already knew, but with whom I had never worked. He tells me ‘there is an opportunity for a political comedy show, we would like to know if you would be interested in that’”.

Ave moved to Guayaquil shortly after this phone call and started the project to produce the after. In this segment you feel very comfortable because likes political comedy“I had the goal of working on that for a while, as I saw john olivethe British comedian, I started to see opportunities to work in that field and completely fell in love with the genre.

the after It airs at night, at 11:15 PM. It is a show of varieties,” is one late at night, manages comedy with the mundane ”. Although he is clear about what he likes, Bird he wants to expand and expresses interest in exploring drama and thus his taste for acting. “Comedy and acting are closely linked. One is useful to the other, I am not an actor, but the tools of acting have been very useful to me shows of comedy”.

Very excited about carrying out more projects in Guayaquil, the resident of the capital admits that this implies knowing the environment and working with local characters, in addition to Victor, whom he describes as an extremely talented man and a spectacular person. It has its sights on Alejandro Fajardo, David Reinoso, Oswaldo Segura, Renata Salem, the Chinese Moreina, Alex Vizuete and other port city references.

The internationalization of his work catches his attention, although he has already had the chance to perform on stages in Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia. “I would like when I grow up in networking that my comedy is less Ecuadorian because I work a lot with the locals and it’s more universal.”

He admits he’s never been good with social networks, but now he wants to expand his audience: “I’ve always avoided social networks, but they work a lot.”