SuperXclusivo

Before SuperXclusivo, Kobbo Santarrosa had created two characters, La Cháchara ("The Tittle-Tattler") and La Condesa del Bochinche ("The Gossip Countess") which were featured on various gossip and entertainment news shows in Puerto Rico. He created the character of La Comay in 1995, featuring her first segments in El Show de las 12 on Telemundo, and then on its own show called X-clusivo. At the time, Santarrosa was accompanied by host Eddie Miró. Santarrosa left Telemundo in 1999.

Santarrosa joined WAPA-TV where he took La Comay to her new gossip program, creating SuperXclusivo, accompanied by Cuban actor/comedian Héctor Travieso as co-host and journalist Leo Fernández III as field reporter, who would later leave the show. During the 13 years that SuperXclusivo aired, it was the most watched television show in Puerto Rico, according to local ratings.[4][5][6][7]

In the original show's later years, many politicians and high-profile figures attended the show for interviews, including governors Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Luis Fortuño and Alejandro García Padilla during each of their incumbencies.[8][9]

In its final years in WAPA-TV, the show closely followed the investigation and accusations in the murder of Lorenzo González Cacho, an 8-year-old boy murdered on March 9, 2010. SuperXclusivo conducted their own investigations throughout the murder's course and came to conclusions that exposed irregularities in the investigations, which differed from official evidence and investigations presented in court. Among those, was the crime scene, which was not secured and was cleaned after investigators recorded their findings, before forensics could thoroughly analyze it.[10]

Long after Santarrosa's resignation from WAPA-TV in 2013, several rumors arose on multiple occasions about a possible return of La Comay to television. Most rumors indicated that she would make her comeback on Mega TV;[11] other rumors claimed that her return would be on Univision Puerto Rico.[12][13] In November 2014, Héctor Travieso publicly said that La Comay would return in 2015 with Santarrosa and him at the helm, though it was never specified which network or platform the return would take place.[14] In an article published in February 2015, rumors of the return of La Comay again surfaced of a comeback on Mega TV.[15]

On October 9, 2018, both La Comay and Héctor Travieso reappeared in online media and television (including the airwaves of WAPA-TV, where SuperXclusivo originally aired) to announce a 2019 concert date for Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico, marking their first television and media appearance since SuperXclusivo was cancelled in 2013 and further fueling longtime rumors of a comeback. The concert announcement was filmed in a full recreation of the set of SuperXclusivo. On the reason why he chose to "revive" La Comay, the singer commented the show was "very present in the popular culture of Puerto Rico" as well as it was part of his family and his childhood in the early decade of 2000, "everybody grew up watching La Comay";[16] this reappearance led to continue speculations of a return to TV, which Santarrossa stated, in November 2018, the idea was not discarded.[17]

After years of speculation, it was confirmed that La Comay would be returning to television to Mega TV in a show titled after the puppet character. Sylvia Hernández, who previously worked in SuperXclusivo, returned as a field reporter on the new show after leaving other gossip/analysis shows. In March 2019, it was reported that La Comay would be extended to audiences in Florida.[18] On March 29, 2019, Héctor Travieso announced his resignation from the show due to personal life purposes and was replaced shortly by Roque Gallart in April 2019 as co-host and sidekick.

On December 11, 2020, Kobbo Santarrosa announced La Comay's contract will not be renewed and aired its final episode on December 18, 2020.[19]

In February 2013, Santarrosa's timeslot in WAPA-TV was replaced by a new live gossip show titled Lo Sé Todo (I Know It All) starring Frankie Jay, Roque Gallart, Sylvia Hernández, Jessica Serrano, and radio producer, Carlos "Topy" Mamery. Jay, Serrano and Hernández, who previously worked as field reporters for Santarrosa in the final years of SuperXclusivo's run, continued their work as field reporters on Lo Sé Todo[26][27][28] until Gallart, Serrano and Hernández eventually left the program, the latter two for Dando Candela, the show's main competitor; Mamery died in December 2014. Gossip journalist Pedro Juan Figueroa joined the show in March, after leaving Dando Candela,[29][30] which led to improved ratings.[31] He left the program, months after a hiatus during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria's impact in Puerto Rico and returned months later.

Over a year after the cancellation of SuperXclusivo, Héctor Travieso accepted a contract Dando Candela on Telemundo.[32][33] Travieso reportedly called Santarrosa before accepting, and Santarrosa encouraged him to take it.[34] Travieso joined Dando Candela in January 2014; however, he quit in May, after less than four months at the show.[35] Rumors stated that Travieso's resignation was related to management concerns about a possible return to TV with Santarrosa.[36][37]

In September 2014, Manolo Travieso-Hurst, son of Héctor Travieso, announced the release of a documentary he was co-producing based on La Comay. The documentary, La Comay: Aparente y Alegadamente, had a theatrical release in November 2014 and was told via interviews conducted by former Univision reporter Liza Lugo, a constant target of La Comay. Among those interviewed, included public figures who were either involved or affected by La Comay, such as journalist Carmen Jovet, analyst Rubén Sánchez, former mayor of San Juan Jorge Santini, radio host Jorge Seijo, LGBT activist Pedro Julio Serrano, and others. Kobbo Santarosa himself was also interviewed in his home in Orlando.[38][39]