The coffin of the late screenwriter Chespirito is seen next to a giant picture of him before a mass held in his honour at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City

The coffin of the late screenwriter Chespirito is seen next to a giant picture of him before a mass held in his honour at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City

The coffin with the remains of the late screenwriter Roberto Gomez Bolanos is seen next to a giant picture of him before a mass held in his honour at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City November 30, 2014. Mexican actor and screenwriter Roberto Gomez Bolanos, one of Latin America’s most beloved comedians, whose slapstick acts charmed fans from Spain to Argentina for over four decades, died on Friday at the age 85. Known as “Chespirito,” a word play on ‘Little Shakespeare’ for his diminutive stature and his prolific scripts, Gomez Bolanos created some of the region’s most enduring comic characters. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO – Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY)