La Carabina de Ambrosio

La Carabina de Ambrosio was a Mexican television show created and developed by Humberto Navarro, filmed at the Televisa Studios, Chapultepec in Mexico City, from 1978 until 1987. The slogan of the show was A Magical, Comical, and Musical Variety Show. The show had guest emcees that included Csar Costa, Gualberto Castro, Fito Girn, and Manolo Muoz. While the emcees sang a cast member would interrupt rudely and a comedy skit began. The show consisted of numerous skits, jokes and tricks played on the emcees. It is rumored that the reason there were so many emcees during the run of the show was due the numerous tricks played on them.

Humberto Navarro, creator and producer, of La Carabina de Ambrosio, was a young upandcoming talent of Televisa. He developed La Carabina de Ambrosio with the theme of you dont know what comes next. There were comedy skits, outrageous magic from equally outrageous magicians, music, entertainers, vedettes all presented out of sequence.Navarro knew what the Mexican television audience wanted, yet were too embarrassed to ask for. Navarro started the show with Brazilian dancer Gina Montes. She was a sultry, darkhaired femme fatale who wore a black Frenchcut leotard with thighhigh highheeled black boots. This was a scandalous costume for the era and stunned the television public when Gina bumped and grinded while white smoke was pumped in at her feet. She opened and closed the show with her gyrations while the credits rolled. Navarro knew this was an outrageous presentation for conservative Mexican television, but the public loved it. Gina disappeared suddenly from the TV show and from Mexico. No one knew what had happened to her until recently. The show hit number one in Mexico The shows success skyrocketed Navarro into fame throughout Mexico. Navarro employed famous singers as emcees. Singers such as Gualberto Castro, Csar Costa, Fito Girn, and Manolo Muoz. He added the controversial and often meritorious Mexican vedettes such as Wanda Seux up to this point vedettes were not shown on Mexican television only in nightclubs and bars. Their almost scandalous costumes brought in the highest rating in Mexican television during the era. Navarro added guests entertainers such as, but not limited to, singer dancer Laura Zapata. ........

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