El Gran Wyoming

El Gran Wyoming
Birth nameJosé Miguel Monzón Navarro
Born (1955-05-15) 15 May 1955 (age 69)
Madrid, Spain
MediumTelevision
NationalitySpanish
GenresPolitical satire
Notable works and rolesHost of El Intermedio & Caiga quien caiga

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Monzón and the second or maternal family name is Navarro.

José Miguel Monzón Navarro (15 May 1955, Madrid), better known as El Gran Wyoming (The Great Wyoming), Wyoming or Guayo, is a Spanish television presenter, actor, musician, director and humorist.

He graduated in Medicine and was a doctor in the town of Buitrago del Lozoya for a short period of time.[1]

He has hosted several programs such as Silencio se juega (1984), La noche se mueve (1992) and El peor programa de la semana (1993). Televisión Española refused to broadcast the last episode of the latter because of an interview with the writer Quim Monzó, in which a joke was made about the employment situation of the King's daughter (Elena de Borbón). The official reason given was low ratings of the program.[2]

In 1995 he returned to TV on the private channel Telecinco. He presented Caiga quien caiga from 1996 to 2002.[3] He was firstly critical of the last Felipe Gonzalez's socialist government and later against the conservative government of José María Aznar (PP).[4][5]

In 2004 he obtained another program in Televisión Española: La azotea de Wyoming.[6] On 4 March 2005 it was moved from Wednesday to Sundays due to the low ratings,[7] and in 14 March it was cancelled.[8][9]

Since 2006 he has presented El Intermedio on laSexta.[10]

  1. ^ www.vertele.com., El Gran Wyoming (José Miguel Monzón)
  2. ^ "El País". El País. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  3. ^ Gómez, Rosario G. (9 May 1996). "El Gran Wyoming debuta en Tele 5 con un informativo satírico". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  4. ^ "El Gran Wyoming: "Felipe González y los otros salieron del armario para ganarse la puerta giratoria"". La Sexta TV (in Spanish). Madrid: Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  5. ^ Repiso, Luis (21 December 2016). "Wyoming a Aznar: "Pretendía ser recordado como padre de la patria y se quedó en cuñado de España"". HuffPost. España Prisa Noticias S.L.U. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  6. ^ Gallo, Isabel (11 January 2005). "Wyoming regresa a TVE tras 10 años con un magacín centrado en la actualidad". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  7. ^ "TVE desplaza "La Azotea de Wyoming" a la noche del domingo tras la caída en picado de la audiencia". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 4 March 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  8. ^ "TVE suprime 'La azotea de Wyoming' por su bajo índice de audiencia". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. 14 March 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  9. ^ "TVE retira 'La azotea de Wyoming' porque no ha logrado 'los índices de audiencia esperados'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid: Mundinteractivos, S.A. 15 March 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  10. ^ "La Sexta Official Page". La Sexta Official Page. Archived from the original on 31 March 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009.