Alex Fernández: The Best Comedian in the World

The nurse asked who the loser was. Pedro already had a title for him.

Netflix stamped Alex Fernández: The Best Comedian in the World on a 51-minute Mexican hour and waited for the eye-roll. The boast was never his. In the closer, Fernández visits his brother Pedro in a hospital after pneumonia hit during esophageal cancer. A nurse washing Pedro asked who Alex Fernandez was. "Who the hell is that loser?" Pedro told her the guy outside the door was a comedian. In fact, the best comedian in the world. latestnetflix.com's take is that "And, so if Pedro says so, I believe it," Fernández says on the tape.

He was 34, the youngest of six kids from Mexico City, a marketing graduate from Monterrey Tech who spent seven years in offices before he quit in 2014. STANDParados for Adal Ramones came first. Then a 2017 Netflix hour shot like a theme-park gag, El especial de Alex Fernández, el Especial. The 2020 special is the second. Alex Diaz directed. Casa Comedy produced. Spanish, TV-MA, 51 minutes. Netflix Latin America put it up on 23 January 2020. Some catalogs list 27 January for the U.S. Card,,,.

The first half still sounds like the old act. Lucha libre. Video games. Adult sites. A first drink. SinEmbargo ran that inventory and then admitted the hour turns. Pedro, born with cerebral palsy, had been the sibling who backed the comedy job when the rest of the family was slower. On the day the 2017 special went live, a sister called. Pedro had cancer of the esophagus,. "Luckily, among my siblings, I always had one who gave me his support," Fernández says. "It's rare, to find someone who supports you unconditionally in this life".

He told Reforma he did not write the closer.

Dallas's Al Día picked up the Reforma interview after the drop. Fernández said he had always meant to put Pedro on a stage. "I didn't even write it, little by little it came out, that's why it was so honest." Pedro survived 10 rounds of chemo and 40 radiation treatments. Pneumonia killed him at 56. The title had already drawn ego shots from people who had not watched. Fernández still had not picked a cancer charity. He wanted the hour to make the disease less of a taboo. "You don't get over it, but you learn to live," he said of the after.

The room was the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, downtown Mexico City, taped the year before the drop. Bollo Negro put him there and called the title a fake-out. Netflix Latinoamérica then posted a five-minute extra in which Fernández walks the haunted-theater lore of that house and the worst show he ever did in it,. The other official clip is the Místico lucha bit, cheap heat before the family turn.

The poster still looks like a ranking. Watch the last ten minutes and it is a brother's last joke, framed by a streamer that wanted another irreverent Mexican hour and got a eulogy that still has to land as stand-up.