{"id":233157,"date":"2016-03-22T03:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cuban-comic-says-obama-changed-script-added-cuban-slang-to-phone-call-skit-video\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T03:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T03:29:43","slug":"cuban-comic-says-obama-changed-script-added-cuban-slang-to-phone-call-skit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cuban-comic-says-obama-changed-script-added-cuban-slang-to-phone-call-skit-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban comic says Obama changed script, added Cuban slang to phone call skit (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        A video of a telephone conversation skit between President Barack Obama and Cuban comic Luis Silva went viral ahead of Obama\u2019s visit to Cuba. Silva told RT that the US president surprised the comic by adding some of his own jokes to the script.&#13;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"118.82612507306\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/president-obama-gets-phone-call-p%C3%A1nfilo\">video<\/a>\u00a0was posted by the US embassy in Cuba and the White House on Saturday, garnering thousands of views online by Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The idea to film a conversation between Panfilo, a comic character in the popular Cuban TV show Vivir del Cuento, and Obama had come to Silva a lot earlier, he told RT.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn several different episodes my character Panfilo repeatedly cites his telephone calls to President Obama,\u201d<\/em> Silva said in an interview to RT in Cuba. <em>\u201cHe told people that he will call Obama, that he was given his telephone number, that sometimes the line is busy, sometimes it\u2019s not, and he couldn\u2019t contact him. That is why Panfilo was surprised when President Obama picked up the phone himself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/umxRCqd6bdI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The nearly three and a half minute video opens with Panfilo trying to call the Meteorological Institute in Casa Blanca, but somehow reaching the White House by mistake.\u00a0 At first, Panfilo is shocked that he got the actual president on the line.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOh my God I\u2019m talking with Obama,\u201d<\/em> the comedian says. <em>\u201cYes the real Obama. Who\u2019s this?\u201d<\/em> the president replies.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m Panfilo from Cuba,\u201d<\/em> the comedian answers.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe real Panfilo \u2013 from the TV show?\u201d<\/em> Obama plays along speaking in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrom the TV show. Oh, he knows me!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then the two start talking about Obama\u2019s visit to Cuba, and Panfilo gives the president tourist advice and offers him a ride from the airport. The comedian even tells Obama that he and his wife Michelle can stay at his house if they don\u2019t have a place to crash. Obama swaps a few jokes in Spanish with Panfilo before agreeing to meet him in Havana. They end the conversation like old friends, saying <em>\u201csee you!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe White House was always aware of all the details about the call, about the scenario\u2026\u201d<\/em> Silva said. <em>\u201cIn this case we were absolutely open.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The show makers wrote the scenario, but Obama made some tweaks of his own, changing his lines and adding a new spin to the dialogue, Panfilo added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe wrote the scenario, however President Obama added something himself, we were very surprised by this, because he sent his part after he filmed it [with the changes]. We had to put the two parts together and were shocked when we discovered that Obama added the words: \u2018\u00a1No me digas! \u00bfQu\u00e9 bol\u00e1?\u2019 We were struck dumb.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/336481-obama-cuba-castro-speeches\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.03\/thumbnail\/56f03ba9c36188d90e8b45dc.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuba's President Raul Castro. \u00a9 Carlos Barria\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The phrase means <em>\u201cYou don\u2019t say. What\u2019s up?\u201d<\/em> in Cuban slang.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI already filmed the part of Panfilo where there was no reaction to this phrase, so we had to modify the video, film it and add Panfilo\u2019s reply behind the scenes,\u201d<\/em> Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>The popular comedian said that the show makers didn\u2019t expect such a boisterous reaction on social media.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve worked hard on this show for seven years, so that the humor is worthy, without borders and clear to all strata of society, so that it touched upon various aspects of everyday life. We\u2019re very pleased. We weren\u2019t prepared for such a boisterous reaction on social media. Now papers around the world write about it. It was all so unexpected,\u201d<\/em> he said. <em>\u201cIt is quite natural that if a comic TV show that goes on in Cuba airs a president of a certain country \u2013 in this case, the president of the US \u2013 it must cause a certain resonance. But we are happy with everything that happened.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Obama and his family arrived in Havana on a historic visit to Cuba, as the two countries seek to mend ties after over half a century estrangement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/336508-obama-cuba-comedian-video\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a telephone conversation skit between President Barack Obama and Cuban comic Luis Silva went viral ahead of Obama\u2019s visit to Cuba. Silva told RT that the US president surprised the comic by adding some of his own jokes to the script.&#13; The video\u00a0was posted by the US embassy in Cuba and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}