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Luis De AlbaLuis de Alba is a Mexican comedian, famous for his character El Pirrurris (the presumptuous son of a millionaire). His most famous TV program was El mundo de Luis de Alba, Luis de Alba's World, where El Pirrurris and other characters regularly appeared. After this program was canceled he spent many years away from television but retransmissions of the show were popular. In 2004 he came back portraying the Pirrurris once again in one of Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo's adult-oriented comedy shows, set in a primary school where the students are played by adult actors. In 2005 he got a new show where he plays the Pirrurris as well as his other characters. Characters El Pirrurris This character is difficult to understand for non-Mexicans. Created sometime in the 1970s, the character is a very rich and young man with a haircut similar to that used by the Beatles in their early years. He enjoys criticizing the low to middle-class people with illusions of grandeur, airs of importance, bad taste and colorful slang. This kind of people are despectively called nacos. The Pirrurris formalized this criticism in nacology, the study of the naco, with the character sitting behind a desk and explaining to his audience the naco of the day as if he were a scientist. His way of talking and gesticulating is a parody of the so-called juniors, the young and presumptuous son's of mexican politicians and entrepreneurs who would look down on anybody else, even their own country, so viewers weren't offended by his remarks. He frequently refers to his daddy (the one who is really the millionaire) and expresses amazement at the common problems of most people. Incredibly narcissistic, he refers his name comes from the mathematical constant Pi and rorro (slang for handsome), when his family realized he was 3.1416 (the approximate value of Pi) times handsome. Pirrurris is a recognizable term in Mexico used to call, more or less despectively, people who look down on others, or act as if they were above their real situation (usually economic). Mexican leftist politician Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador has used the term on different ocasions to refer to his right-wing political enemies.
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