Paloma Salas

Paloma Francisca Salas Ortiz (born in Santiago on June 24, 1985) is a Chilean comedian, actress, scriptwriter and radio broadcaster. She has been recognized as one of the pioneers of stand-up comedy in Chile. Born in Santiago and educated at the Santiago College, Salas entered the Bachillerato en Humanidades at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in 2004. After being expelled from the university for her low grades, she combined a job with the scriptwriting diploma at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

In 2006 she collaborated with Julio Rojas Gutiérrez on the script of the film La vida de los peces, directed by Matías Bize; that same year she began studying Literatura at the Universidad Diego Portales. In 2009 she debuted in stand-up comedy, opening for the actress and comedian Jani Dueñas in her sessions at El Cachafaz. Four years later she took part, alongside Dueñas, Natalia Valdebenito and José Miguel Villouta, in the stand-up show Hardcore. In 2013 she debuted on television as a panelist on the program Vigilantes on La Red, and was also a guest on the humor program Club de la Comedia broadcast by Chilevisión. Between 2015 and 2016 she co-hosted the program Campo minado on Via X. In 2015 she was a panelist on the podcast Dueñas de Nada hosted by Jani Dueñas, and two years later the two broadcast the program Dueñas de Salas on the online radio Niu Radio until 2018.

In 2018 she was chosen as one of the 100 young leaders of that year by the magazine Sábado of El Mercurio. The following year she opened a humorous routine alongside Jani Dueñas before the Santiago presentation of the Russian punk and artistic collective Pussy Riot, and that same year she starred, alongside Mariana Derderian, in the film Ella es Cristina directed by Gonzalo Maza. In 2020 she released her first album, Paloma Salas: lo tiene todo, published by the label Cósmico Comedia, co-founded by Salas and Fabrizio Copano. In 2022 she premiered the podcast Expertas en nada alongside the actress Elisa Zulueta, becoming the eighth most listened-to podcast in Chile in 2023, and her first live show at the Teatro Oriente sold out in an hour. In 2024 she had her official debut as a scriptwriter for the film El lugar de la otra, directed by Maite Alberdi.