Antolín El Pichón

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 driver who transformed into the night comedian, and in this duality, the artist he is began to prevail. Hand in hand with Chaflán and through an audition, he launched his artistic career with a humorous group that entertained the nights of Santa Clara, "Los Píos."

Little by little, he began to make a name for himself in the music scene and got closer to the institutions, thus becoming a member of the Provincial Center of Music in Santa Clara, which opened doors to the nightclubs in the city. In 1991, Santa Clara felt too small, and Antolín, along with "Los Píos," headed to Havana in search of the big city.

The big city separates Ángel García from Los Píos and Alberto Luberta, another great comedian whom we all remember for his humorous scripts on the afternoons of Radio Progreso, brings to life the guajiro that we all know as Antolín el pichón. He begins his adventure in the capital and gradually makes his way to the most popular medium in Cuba, television. There he shares the stage with great Cuban comedians, and Antolín merges with Pía, and Pía with Antolín. Nights of laughter on the show "Sabadazo" will be remembered by many Cubans; Carlos Otero, Boncó Quiñongo, Geonel Martín, and Antolín, among others, formed the cast that united many great comedians on a television set.

He has also participated in Palmas y Cañas and in the program No quiero llanto, where he remained for 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 in person, who during that meeting told him: "You are the purest of Cuban humor that has come in the last sixty years." "I just want you to remember that anyone who casts a shadow over you will go away."

On several occasions, Antolín visited Miami and participated in humorous programs where he reunited with professional colleagues such as Carlos Otero, Geonel Martín, and Boncó Quiñongo. In 2016, El guajiro de Manacas became a regular on the entertainment program TN3, hosted by Carlos Otero and Venezuelan Mónica Pasqualotto from the Miami-based network América Tevé. In his debut as an actor in Miami, he played a character with Mexican traits.

In 2017, Antolín stopped appearing on programs on Cuban Television. Ángel García himself explained years later in an interview on the program Esto no tiene nombre, in Miami, that according to a survey that had been conducted, he was informed that he was not liked in Cuba and that all the programs he appeared on were of very bad 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.