Álvaro Salas

Álvaro Salas is a Chilean humorist and television presenter born in Valparaíso. He is known as el rey del chiste corto, the king of the short joke, and works in the traditional joke-telling style of Chilean humour.

He has presented television programmes including Viva el lunes and performed at the Viña del Mar Festival in 2000 and 2007. In 2010 he signed with Mega, where he took part in the morning show Mucho gusto. In 2022 he received the Premio Nacional de Humor, a prize awarded by the Instituto de Estudios Humorísticos of Universidad Diego Portales.