Carolina Iglesias, known on social media as Percebes y Grelos, began her career by publishing humorous content on the internet and has ended up becoming one of the most recognizable communicators in Spanish digital entertainment. The comedian, screenwriter, and presenter draws on personal experiences and talks about feminism and LGTBIQ+ rights while also commenting on current affairs, a formula that has allowed her to build a community of followers and develop projects in radio, podcast and live shows.
Her career path is also an example of how creators who were born on social media have managed to carve out a place in traditional media without abandoning the style that made them known. In Iglesias’s case, humor coexists with opinions about equality, sexual diversity, and the political discourses that affect these rights.
Percebes y Grelos, the beginning of Carolina Iglesias
Before becoming known for her podcasts, Carolina Iglesias was already publishing videos and humorous comments under the name Percebes y Grelos, the pseudonym she still uses in her social media profiles.
Born in Galicia, she began developing her career as a content creator and monologist when she was very young. At 18, she moved to Madrid to work in the world of comedy and, later, began collaborating as a screenwriter on Cadena SER.
Her first publications mixed everyday situations, cultural references, and anecdotes from her personal life. Over time, that content began incorporating reflections on relationships, feminism, and sexual diversity. Iglesias has also spoken openly about her bisexuality and about the importance of having LGTBIQ+ role models in the media.
The phenomenon of 'Estirando el chicle'
One of the projects that has contributed the most to her popularity is 'Estirando el chicle', the podcast she created in 2020 together with Victoria Martín and that became one of the great successes of Spanish digital entertainment.
The show was born as a space for conversation between two comedians who addressed, with humor and without too many filters, issues that concerned them or made them indignant. Personal relationships, machismo, social expectations about women, and the experiences of their guests took up a good part of their episodes.
The success of the format led the podcast to receive the Ondas Award for the best podcast or digital broadcast program in 2021. A year later, Iglesias and Martín filled the then WiZink Center in Madrid with a comedy show for about 12,000 people.
In April 2026, the program returned with its eighth season, in which regular collaborators took part such as Henar Álvarez, Lalachus, Patricia Espejo, Carmen Romero and Bianca Kovacs. That stage ended in June with a farewell episode after six years of its run.
'Not so good', her leap to the late night format
Carolina Iglesias has also developed her own career in radio with 'Ni tan bien', her program on Cadena SER, in which she combines interviews, collaborators, monologues and comments about current affairs.
The show maintains much of the style that characterizes the presenter: informal conversations, humor and reflections on everyday matters that sometimes have a political dimension.
Among the topics she has addressed are social pressure on women, motherhood, personal relationships, and the contradictions of adult life. In one of her interventions in November 2026, Iglesias criticized how the idea is passed down from childhood that motherhood should be part of the future of all women.
Her work also includes comments on current institutional affairs. In September, for example, she used a monologue about guilt after the holidays to satirize political scandals and the use of public money.
Feminism, LGTBIQ+ rights, and political humor
Although Carolina Iglesias does not carry out her work as a specialized political commentator, her content addresses issues that are part of the public debate and that also appear in the parties’ election programs.
Equality between women and men, sexual diversity, gender stereotypes, and social rights are some of the matters that frequently appear in her monologues and interviews.
The presenter has used her own experience to talk about bisexuality and LGTBIQ+ visibility, and to also question certain social expectations about women. In her interventions, these reflections are usually accompanied by humor, irony, and references to everyday situations.
This stance has also sparked controversies. In 2022, Iglesias and Victoria Martín received criticism for the planned participation of a comedian questioned for her statements about trans people. Both ended up apologizing for the controversy.