Luis Slimming interviewed Mr. Francisco for Between joke and joke, chapter that It started with unexpected trolling—with advice included—from the legendary entertainer to the comedian.
At the start of the conversation for YouTube, Mario Kreutzberger admitted that he knew “Don Comedia” from his recent triumph in the 2024 edition of the Viña Festival.
““They have informed me a little about your story, and the similarities we have,” He then asked him who was the animator of Giant Saturday. “The first: the weight,” he said, generating laughter in the studio.
Don Francisco’s comparison led him to say: “I’m going to give you my latest book, which is called With a desire to live, I wrote it during the pandemic; and one of the chapters is called ‘The weight of my weight’”, He asked him as an introduction to his advice.
Don Francisco’s advice
“I was talking with Marcelo (Valverde)your colleague, and also ‘(I asked him) how much do you weigh’ and he told me 115 kilos,” he commented. “You should go there,” to which Luis responded affirmatively, and with a sad grimace after being revealed.
“I named it ‘The weight of my weight’ because throughout my life, I was born weighing five kilos; From then on, I was nine or ten years old, and the doctors told me: son or grandson of a diabetic?” he recalled. “And I was the son and grandson of a diabetic side of my family,” He assured, to which the comedian agreed by telling him that “both of my parents (are) diabetic.”
“Your future, in addition to humorous success, and you have seen what happened with ‘The Indian’ (Mauricio Medina)“That’s it,” he predicted. “But today there are possibilities to control this,” he highlighted, pointing to him. “Now there is a type of medication that has helped people have a more regular weight.”
“Thank you, Don Mario,” the other replied, laughing and receiving the book. “I’m going to devour it,” he launched with humor.
“They bullied you at school, but because you were fat,” concluded the communicator, who assured that he also went through difficult times at school due to his Jewish roots. “Because he was heavy, stubborn, he had them all,” the comedian replied, adding reasons why his peers grabbed him for the tandeo, and already changing the topic of conversation.
