{"id":6809,"date":"2015-09-19T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:41:28","slug":"the-saddest-day-in-television-history-sabado-gigante-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/19\/the-saddest-day-in-television-history-sabado-gigante-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saddest Day In Television History &#8211; S\u00e1bado Gigante Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/for-more-than-50-years-univisions-sabado-gigante-was-truly-a-giant\/2015\/09\/16\/2172f130-57f2-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_headlines\" target=\"_blank\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>For more than 50 years, Univision\u2019s \u2018S\u00e1bado Gigante\u2019 was truly a giant<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0Carlos Harrison<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M26sHYPQ48Q\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">DORAL, FLA. \u2014\u00a0<\/span>An electric excitement surges through the crowd gathered in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Univision<\/a>\u00a0studios in this city just west of Miami. As Mario \u201cDon Francisco\u201d Kreutzberger steps out of the wings, the fans in the bleachers who\u2019ve traveled here from Guatemala and Chile, California and Kansas City and beyond erupt in cheers and wild applause.<\/p>\n<p>These lucky folks are experiencing history: They\u2019re the last members of the general public to be the studio audience of \u201cS\u00e1bado Gigante\u201d (\u201cGiant Saturday\u201d), the hugely popular \u2014 and longest-running \u2014 variety show that has dominated Spanish-language television for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>And like audiences before them for the past 53 years, they\u2019re eating up the corny antics of Kreutzberger, the show\u2019s creator and only host for its entire run. They laugh as he mugs in a variety of goofy hats during the signature talent competition, \u201cEl Chacal de la Trompeta\u201d (\u201cThe Trumpet Jackal\u201d) and howl at the sexual-innuendo-laden comedy sketches. When the first comedian\u2019s mike gives off a static buzz, Kreutzberger hands him his own. \u201cSince the show\u2019s ending,\u201d he deadpans to laughter, \u201cthey only give us half as many working microphones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, sadly, the glitzy, zany hodgepodge that is \u201cS\u00e1bado Gigante\u201d \u2014 part game show, part talent show, part comedy show, part musical entertainment and, often enough, serious interview show with newsmakers and world leaders \u2014 ends Saturday, leaving mourning viewers in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/for-more-than-50-years-univisions-sabado-gigante-was-truly-a-giant\/2015\/09\/16\/2172f130-57f2-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_headlines\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post For more than 50 years, Univision\u2019s \u2018S\u00e1bado Gigante\u2019 was truly a giant By\u00a0Carlos Harrison DORAL, FLA. \u2014\u00a0An electric excitement surges through the crowd gathered in the\u00a0Univision\u00a0studios in this city just west of Miami. As Mario \u201cDon Francisco\u201d Kreutzberger steps out of the wings, the fans in the bleachers who\u2019ve traveled here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}