Adrian Uribe, better recognized for his character as El Vitor or “The Hurrah” Poncho Aurelio, as well as many other roles, is a Mexican actor, comedian and show host.
Adrian Uribe was born on September 8, 1972 within the settlement of Mexico City and had begun his career of acting during the early 1990’s. Prior to starting his career, he had attended an educational institution focused on developing new actors for the media industry in Mexico, named the Centro de Educacion Artistica or the Center of Artistic Education, which is owned by one of the country’s most major telecommunications as well as conglomerate media company, Televisa. However in order to hone his craft in acting, Uribe decided to dedicate decades worth of performing in local theater institutions, such as children’s programs, before starting professionally.
It wasn’t until the year 1999, when Uribe would make his first appearance in a professionally high budget production stage, in the comedy program, Humor es, los Comediantes (Humor, is the Comedians). The premise of the show is that various comedians from the Latin American area would perform sketches in front of a live audience. Then a year later, in September of 2000, he would star as one of the main cast in another comedy program, revolving around the idea of implementing various gags and styles of humor from different cultures, without offending people, known as La Hora Pico (The Rush Hour). This show was also the premiere of Uribe’s most influential and recognizable character in Mexican households, dubbed as El Vitor. He would thereafter utilize this character again in 2009, in a game show similar to that of Family Feud known as 100 Mexicanos Dijeron (100 Mexicans Said), as the host. Uribe’s role in Mexican media, would be greatly influential to the point that he would be assigned various roles in the future, for dubbing within films and acting in Soap operas.
“Pipipipir!” A catchphrase that Uribe’s character, El Vitor would often say, sounding similar to that of a yell from a mariachi band.
