He was born in
Reus (
Catalonia), to Juan Buenafuente and Teresa Moreno. His father was native to that area and the son of parents from the
Zurgena area of
Almería. He was a representative, a player at the
Reus Deportiu Football Club and amateur actor. His mother, Teresa Moreno, was born in
Lorca (
Murcia), although her family was from Almería, and worked in the textile industry. and seven years later he presented the programme
El terrat (
SER Catalunya), for which he won the
Onda Award for
Best Local Radio Programme in 1997. In order to be able to contract his own collaborators, he founded El Terrat, a company dedicated to 'television, radio and digital production'. In the summer of 2002 he presented on
La isla de los mosquitos (
Cadena SER), a programme in which witty phrases were mixed with music. Eleven years later, on Sunday 30 June 2013, he returned to Cadena SER with his friend and coworker
Berto Romero with the programme
Nadie sabe nada, which would go on to win other
Onda Awards in 2019.
Television His first television appearances were in 1992 under the direction of
Mikimoto on
Persones humanes (
TV3), of Arús on
Al ataque (
Antena 3) and of Sardà on ''Tot per l'audiència
(TV3). He established himself in on Catalan public broadcasting with programmes like Sense Títol
(1995), Sense Titol 2
(1996), Sense Titol, Sense Vacances
(1997) and Sense Titol S/N
(1998), which were all produced by El Terrat and directed by Andreu in collaboration with others in his team. Also, his production company released other successful shows on TV3, like Malalts de tele
(1997), Plats bruts (1998), A pèl
(2002) and Set de nit''. On 11 January 2005 he launched the
late-night talk show Buenafuente (
Antena 3), which was broadcast from Tuesday to Thursday, with viewership which exceeded expectations in its first months and for which he received a
Onda Award for best entertainment programme in 2006. The legendary appearance of the character
el Neng de Castefa (played by Edu Soto) was a notable part of the show. After two years, it was renewed for one more, but a clear decline in viewership mean that the final episode was aired on 28 June 2007. Ten days before this it was announced that the show would move to
La Sexta, keeping the same name and format. This new show was first aired on 17 September 2007 at midnight and in a few months the character of
Rodolfo Chikilicuatre (played by
David Fernández Ortiz), who originated on the show, would represent
Spain in
Eurovision with the song
Baila el Chiki Chiki, which came sixteenth, receiving 55 points. Buenafuente was still working with members of the team of actors and screenwriters that he had begun working with at
TV3, which was led by Jordi Évole among others, and to which was added new comedians like
Berto Romero. , Granada, in 2007. On 3 December 2009 he went to
Madrid to host
El intermedio for a day, swapping hosting responsibilities with
El Gran Wyoming. On 24 March 2010
Buenafuente aired an innovative episode of his daily show, playing an episode in reverse,
Etneufaneub. Also, he hosted the 2010 and 2011
Goya Awards live for
La 1 at the
Teatro Real in Madrid and collaborated on the series
Pelotas. On 30 June 2011
Buenafuente aired for the last time on
La Sexta after 964 episodes over the course of four years. In November 2011 he returned to
TV3 to host the two-episode programme
Com va la vida? alongside the
popular scientist Eduard Punset, on which they reflected on life and science with a humorous tone. This programme was Buenafuente's return to the channel on which he had debuted and at which he had worked for more than ten years. On 15 April 2012 the programme
Buenas noches y Buenafuente (
Antena 3) was broadcast, it would air on Sundays in the
prime time slot. One month later it was cancelled due to the decline in viewership after just five episodes. In November 2013, wanting a change, he returned to the world of late-night programming on La Sexta with the show
En el aire. In September 2015 it was confirmed that he would be joining
Movistar+, leaving the
Atresmedia group and ending
En el aire. On 11 January 2016 the late-night talk show
Late motiv was first aired on
Canal+ with
Pedro Almodóvar as the guest. After 1 February, with the dissolution of Canal+, the programme moved to the new
Movistar+ channel
#0. This programme was Buenafuente's attempt to return to traditional late-night programming, with a live band and a commitment to live music. The appearance of contributors was also reduced, in order to give the appearance of it being more of a '
one man show'. in 2023
Que us bombin a tots, and in 2024 it was
El 24. On the channel, the show
Vosaltres mateixos was also first aired at the end of 2023. It is a weekly
talk-show in which Buenafuente talks to anonymous members of the public. In January 2025 his contract with RTVE to create a programme for the Friday night slot called
Futuro Imperfecto was announced
. The show's format is that of a comedy special, with a long monologue, although it also includes brief interludes which feature regular contributors or members of the public. == Personal life ==