Joey de Leon is a Filipino actor, born Jose Maria Ramos de Leon on 14th of October 1946 in Manila, he is famous for his wit, green jokes and sarcasm. Joey de Leon is one of the original host of the long-running noontime show EAT BULAGA and member of the famous comedy trio TVJ (Tito, Vic and JOEY). His career could be said to be out of luck and talent, his career started when his friend invited him to watch a DJ audition where he was accidentally been mistaken for an applicant, he tried out and landed himself a job as a DJ.
JOEY DE LEON AS A DJ
He's career as a DJ(Disk Jockey) started in the 1960's for some of the top FM stations mostly owned by the pre-martial law ABS-CBN. Inday Badiday, Ike Lozada, Johny de Leon(not related to him) and Helen Vela were some of his radio colleagues and contemporaries. In a span of five years, he worked in 12 different FM stations while doing other jobs as gag writer and song writer.
AS A HOST
In 1975, Joey became a co-host of GMA Network's early afternoon show DISCORAMA hosted by Bobby Ledesma, which during that time hardly had any viewers and suffered from low ratings. While Bobby was on vacation he asked Joey to take care of the show, during this time Joey asked his former co-stars in the gag show OK Lang, brothers Tito, Vic and Val Sotto to join him at Discorama. Only Tito and Vic accepted his invitation, the newly formed trio started to do comedy newscast segments interspersed with Top 40 hit song-parodies written by Joey. With Tito and Vic, they gave the show a new lease on life and was saved from being axed by the network executives, soon after they were invited to become part of Bobby's noontime show Student Canteen as they release 12 hit albums based on their Discorama Tough Hits segment. In 1979, with Tito and Vic he hosted the noontime show Eat Bulaga, which was pitted against the more established Student Canteen hosted by their former colleague Bobby Ledesma. It didn't took long for Eat Bulaga to topple Student Canteen from the ratings. As a host Joey de Leon had hosted a lot of shows besides Eat Bulaga, including Mel and Joey, Joey's Quirky World, Star Talk, Wow Mali, Nuts Entertainment and many more.
AS A COMEDIAN
His first TV break wa
s in a gag show in IBC's OK Lang, where stared him alongside the Sotto Brothers (Tito, Vic and Val), Ricky Manalo Jr. and the APO Hiking Society. With his wits Joey can make a joke about almost anything, he can give double meanings to a lot of words, he can also make good funny excuses for the things he says that others might find offensive and he can think of funny things about a lot of topics, this natural ability landed him a lot of jobs in gag shows and sitcoms. In the 80's he topbilled the sitcom Joey and son in RPN, where he played the role of Ian Veneracion's father. He was also one of the comedian on TODAS where his co-stars included Jimmy Santos and Val Sotto.
AS A SINGER-SONGWRITER
As a songwriter Joey had penned a lot of hit songs that a lot of Filipinos considers as classics, these songs are "Ipagpatawad Mo"(Forgive Me), "Awitin Mo, Isasayaw Ko"(Sing and I Will Dance), "Boyfrend Kong Baduy"(My Geek Boyfriend) and "Iskul Bukol"(School Lump). As a singer Joey recorded song-parodies and songs that is of a naughty theme, such songs are "Itaktak mo", "Kagat Labi", "Spaghetti Song"(which he recorded with the sexbomb dancers) and "Walang Daya"(No Cheating).
AS A MOVIE ACTOR
As a movie actor Joey together with Tito and Vic had
been casted in a lot of hit comedy movies like "Kabayo Kids", "Super One, Two, Three" and "Iskul Bukol the Reunion". As a solo comedian he also had topbilled in many hit movies most are spoofs of famous foreign movies or takes at American and Filipino Pop cultures, including "Starzan"(spoof of Tarzan), "Barbi", "Elvis and James" and "Long Ranger and Tonton". In 1989 his movie Starzan became a box-office hit, in the same year he did two more sequels of the movie which also became a big hit. Because of the success the three Starzan movies that he made, he was named Box-Office King for that year. He also earned the title Sequel King for most of his movies each spawned sequels.
AS A COLUMNIST
As a columnist Joey used to write for the broad sheet Manila Bulletin in his column "De Leon's Den", but on July 31, 2008 he tendered his irrevocable resignation when a news article was published in the Manila Bulletin's sister tabloid news paper Balita that says that Eat Bulaga's show in LA was a flop. Today Joey de Leon continues to write his column on the Philippine Star another broad sheet here in the Philippines.
AS A PAINTER
Joey de Leon also knows how to paint, last June 30 he mounted a back-to-back exhibit with Igan D'Bayan at The Crucible Gallery entitled "Fish and Chips". In the said exhibit Joey presents clown and fish paintings in acrylic, using casino chips from his personal collection as a metaphor for chance and "accidental beauty".
Indeed Joey de Leon is a person of many talent, I personally admires his wits and abilities. It seems that when God sent a storm of talent to the world, while most was inside their home he's outside with a barrel. He indeed is a jack of all traits, master of all.
JOEY DE LEON AS A DJ
He's career as a DJ(Disk Jockey) started in the 1960's for some of the top FM stations mostly owned by the pre-martial law ABS-CBN. Inday Badiday, Ike Lozada, Johny de Leon(not related to him) and Helen Vela were some of his radio colleagues and contemporaries. In a span of five years, he worked in 12 different FM stations while doing other jobs as gag writer and song writer.
AS A HOST
In 1975, Joey became a co-host of GMA Network's early afternoon show DISCORAMA hosted by Bobby Ledesma, which during that time hardly had any viewers and suffered from low ratings. While Bobby was on vacation he asked Joey to take care of the show, during this time Joey asked his former co-stars in the gag show OK Lang, brothers Tito, Vic and Val Sotto to join him at Discorama. Only Tito and Vic accepted his invitation, the newly formed trio started to do comedy newscast segments interspersed with Top 40 hit song-parodies written by Joey. With Tito and Vic, they gave the show a new lease on life and was saved from being axed by the network executives, soon after they were invited to become part of Bobby's noontime show Student Canteen as they release 12 hit albums based on their Discorama Tough Hits segment. In 1979, with Tito and Vic he hosted the noontime show Eat Bulaga, which was pitted against the more established Student Canteen hosted by their former colleague Bobby Ledesma. It didn't took long for Eat Bulaga to topple Student Canteen from the ratings. As a host Joey de Leon had hosted a lot of shows besides Eat Bulaga, including Mel and Joey, Joey's Quirky World, Star Talk, Wow Mali, Nuts Entertainment and many more.
AS A COMEDIAN
His first TV break wa
s in a gag show in IBC's OK Lang, where stared him alongside the Sotto Brothers (Tito, Vic and Val), Ricky Manalo Jr. and the APO Hiking Society. With his wits Joey can make a joke about almost anything, he can give double meanings to a lot of words, he can also make good funny excuses for the things he says that others might find offensive and he can think of funny things about a lot of topics, this natural ability landed him a lot of jobs in gag shows and sitcoms. In the 80's he topbilled the sitcom Joey and son in RPN, where he played the role of Ian Veneracion's father. He was also one of the comedian on TODAS where his co-stars included Jimmy Santos and Val Sotto.AS A SINGER-SONGWRITER
As a songwriter Joey had penned a lot of hit songs that a lot of Filipinos considers as classics, these songs are "Ipagpatawad Mo"(Forgive Me), "Awitin Mo, Isasayaw Ko"(Sing and I Will Dance), "Boyfrend Kong Baduy"(My Geek Boyfriend) and "Iskul Bukol"(School Lump). As a singer Joey recorded song-parodies and songs that is of a naughty theme, such songs are "Itaktak mo", "Kagat Labi", "Spaghetti Song"(which he recorded with the sexbomb dancers) and "Walang Daya"(No Cheating).
AS A MOVIE ACTOR
As a movie actor Joey together with Tito and Vic had
been casted in a lot of hit comedy movies like "Kabayo Kids", "Super One, Two, Three" and "Iskul Bukol the Reunion". As a solo comedian he also had topbilled in many hit movies most are spoofs of famous foreign movies or takes at American and Filipino Pop cultures, including "Starzan"(spoof of Tarzan), "Barbi", "Elvis and James" and "Long Ranger and Tonton". In 1989 his movie Starzan became a box-office hit, in the same year he did two more sequels of the movie which also became a big hit. Because of the success the three Starzan movies that he made, he was named Box-Office King for that year. He also earned the title Sequel King for most of his movies each spawned sequels.AS A COLUMNIST
As a columnist Joey used to write for the broad sheet Manila Bulletin in his column "De Leon's Den", but on July 31, 2008 he tendered his irrevocable resignation when a news article was published in the Manila Bulletin's sister tabloid news paper Balita that says that Eat Bulaga's show in LA was a flop. Today Joey de Leon continues to write his column on the Philippine Star another broad sheet here in the Philippines.
AS A PAINTER
Joey de Leon also knows how to paint, last June 30 he mounted a back-to-back exhibit with Igan D'Bayan at The Crucible Gallery entitled "Fish and Chips". In the said exhibit Joey presents clown and fish paintings in acrylic, using casino chips from his personal collection as a metaphor for chance and "accidental beauty".
Indeed Joey de Leon is a person of many talent, I personally admires his wits and abilities. It seems that when God sent a storm of talent to the world, while most was inside their home he's outside with a barrel. He indeed is a jack of all traits, master of all.
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Anonymous says:
keep it up u have an interesting topics.
Anonymous says:
joey idol itatanong ko sana sa iyo.saan ako makakabili ng painting mo.nasa tate ako sa newark ca.o kaya banggitin mo nalang sa eat bulaga. kung saan.kasi every day akong nanonod ng eat bulaga. si boy buison pala ako.thanks idol
Ravencrow says:
Sorry po mr. boy buison di po ito website ni Mr. Joey de Leon at di po nya ako kilala. But kung mababasa nya comment nyo, baka replyan nya kayo. Kung gusto nyo talaga makausap si Joey try nyo po sa website ng eat bulaga sa forum po nila. Thanks any way sa pag visit sa blog ko good day po.