Ángel García Mesa, better known as Antolín El Pichón, is a renowned Cuban comedian born in 1953 in Manacas, Villa Clara, Cuba.
He started his career at the Cubanacán cabaret in Santa Clara. By day, he was a welder and tractor operator who transformed into a night-time comedian, and it was through this duality that the artist within him began to emerge. With the support of Chaflán and through an audition, he kicked off his artistic journey with a humor group that enlivened the nights of Santa Clara, "Los Píos."
Little by little, he began to make a name for himself in the scene and started getting closer to the institutions. This way, he became a member of the Provincial Center for Music in Santa Clara, which opened the doors to the city's nightlife venues. In 1991, Santa Clara became too small for him, and Antolín, along with "Los Píos," set off for Havana in search of the big city.
The big city separates Ángel García from Los Píos and Alberto Luberta, another renowned comedian whom we all remember for his humorous scripts on the afternoons of Radio Progreso. He brings to life the character we all know as Antolín the Pichón. His adventure begins in the capital and gradually leads him to the most popular medium in Cuba: television. There, he shares the stage with great Cuban comedians, and Antolín blends with Pía, and Pía with Antolín. Nights filled with laughter on the show "Sabadazo" will be remembered by many Cubans. Carlos Otero, Boncó Quiñongo, Geonel Martín, Antolín, among others, formed the cast that brought together many talented comedians on a television set.
He has also participated in Palmas y Cañas and the show No quiero llanto, where he spent several years with a humorous segment titled La Voz Quimbombó, featuring Antolín and other comedians such as El habanero, Pantera, Mariconchi, and Rikimbili.
In 2012, he fulfilled his dream of meeting the Cuban comedian Guillermo Álvarez Guedes, who at that meeting told him: “You are the purest essence of Cuban humor that has come in the last sixty years.” "I just want you to remember that whoever casts a shadow over you will leave."
Durante varias ocasiones Antolín visitó Miami y participó en programas humorísticos where he reconnected with professional colleagues such as Carlos Otero,Geonel Martíno Boncó Quiñongo. En 2016 El guajiro de Manacas se convirtió en un habitual del programa de entretenimiento TN3, conducido por Carlos Otero y la venezolana Mónica Pasqualotto de la cadena de Miami América Tevé. En su debut como actor en Miami interpretaba un personaje con tintes mexicanos.
In 2017, Antolín stopped appearing on Cuban television programs. Angel García himself explained years later in an interview on the show Esto no tiene nombre in Miami that, according to a survey that had been conducted, he was informed that he was not well-liked in Cuba and that all the programs in which he appeared were of very poor taste.
In November 2020, the comedian lost Dayán García, his son who passed away in Cuba due to digestive sepsis.
Antolín resides in Miami with his partner, the Cuban Misleydi Armas Garcés.
