Peter Capusotto y sus Videos, formerly known as Peter Capusotto y sus Videos: Un programa de rock, was an Argentinean comedy show hosted by Diego Capusotto and Pedro Saborido. Originally airing in Rock & Pop TV, it ran between 2006 and ended on 2016 on the state-backed Televisión Pública, and its last season being aired on TNT.
The show is sketch-driven, with a plethora of characters that opened and closed some of the weirdest musical videos. Originally from Capusotto's own video library, Marcelo Iconomidis later took the reigns and introduced entire generations of argentineans to the most varied music a show in the country ever had. During the later seasons, however, the musical aspect was downplayed, and reruns of past sketches got rid of it entirely.
Some of the show's most notorious sketches were the following:
- Juan Carlos Pelotudo: a series of fake ads about a dumb teenager who takes guitar courses due to its inability to play the guitar.
- Pomelo: a rock star who cares more about fame and excess than music.
- Roberto Quenedi: an aspiring singer who tries to sing in english and fails. Miserably.
- Luis Almirante Brown: a Luis Alberto Spinetta-wannabe who proclaims to popularize poetry music for the masses. Always ends up singing innuendoes.
- Rock vs. Policía: a series of fake instruction videos ambiented in The '70s where the cadets are warned about the rise of hippie movements and LGBT.
- Micky Vainilla: a series of sketches about a Hitler-wannabe pop star who just wanted to do dancing music... while his lyrics are all about supremacism.
- Quiste Sebáceo: a satanic singer who is criticized not for his music, but rather for his particular... speech pattern.
- Pizzería Los Hijos De Puta: a series of fake ads about a pizza place with a questionable hygiene and customer attention.
- Bombita Rodríguez: a series of fake documentaries about the titular character, a former musical star who promoted Peronism, revolution, and who lives his last years in Cuba.
- Violencia Rivas: a series of sketches about a musical star with violent lyrics, self proclaimed the grandma of punk.
While the show went off-air, several sketches and even complete episodes can be seen in its official YouTube channel
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The show has examples of:
- Accent Interest: Quiste Sebáceo is a singer with satanic tendencies who sings about the evilness in the world, but what gets people interested in him is the weird way he pronounces the Z and soft C letters in Spanish.
- Adolf Hitlarious: Micky Vainilla is a spoof of the man himself if he was a pop singer, complete with lyrics talking about supremacism and fake ads about seemingly innocent things with nazi tones.
- Cover Version: The show opened with a murga version of The Rolling Stones's "Sympathy for the Devil".
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Micky Vainilla" is a spoof on Milli Vanilli, if he was a Hitler Youth symphatizer.
- Portmanteau: The name of the show itself, composed by "Peter" (Pedro Saborido) and "Capusotto" (Diego Capusotto).
- Take That!: "Pomelo" was Capusotto's answer to most of Argentina's "rock barrial" scene, which was filled of people with rock star deliriums.
