Jose Miguel Agrelot

Guisseppe Michel Agrelot (born April 21, 1927) is a Puerto Rican radio show host, television show host and comedian who is better known as Jose Miguel Agrelot. His grandmother was Italian, and his parents gave him an Italian name to honor her.

Agrelot started working on radio stations when he was 14. At that time, he was employed by don Tomas Muniz[?], who was the father of Tommy Muniz. That was the period when he started playing his now classic character of Torito. Agrelot worked on a show named El Colegio de la Alegria (The College of Happiness). Soon after, he moved himself and his Torito character to rival radio station WKAQ-Fm, where he starred alongside Luis Vigoreaux in a show named Torito & Company.

Agrelot's show with Vigoreaux had wild success, and they toured most United States cities with a large Latin American population, bringing their show to theaters all over the states. Torito returned to El Colegio de la Alegria when that show made it's transition to television.

Agrelot has also acted in shows in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. He has done extended tours of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

Apart from interventions in a few commercials, Agrelot's credits in Puerto Rican tv include:

• El Colegio de La Alegria
• El Profesor Colgate
• La Criada Malcriada (The Nasty Maid)
• El Especial de Corona (The Corona Special)
• Desafiando a Los Genios (Challenging The Geniuses)
• Haciendo Historia (Making History)
• El Show Del Mediodia (The Midday show, as Don Cholito, another legendary character of his)
• Parece Increible (It Seems Incredible)
• Ja ja, Ji ji, Jo jo Con Agrelot

Agrelot has an area of the theme park Parque De Las Ciencias in Bayamon named after his Torito character. La Ciudad de Torito, or Torito's City was inaugurated in 1988. In 2003, his radio show, Su Alegre Despertar, broke the world's record for the longest run non stop radio show in history, reaching it's 53rd year to run non-stop and making Agrelot the second person from Puerto Rico, after Wilfredo Benitez, to join the Guiness Book of World Records[?].

This avid autograph signer has also written joke books and posed in a ring with Muhammad Ali for the cover of one of his publications.