Tulio Triviño Tufillo

Tulio Triviño Tufillo is the main character of 31 Minutos. He is the host of the "most truthful newscast on television" and a native of the Titirilquén people .It is a puppet with a resemblance to an ape, with some similarity to a Sock Monkey. The face and inside of his hands are light beige, while the rest of the body, similar to a vest, has white, black, gray, black, brown and orange lines. It has two yellow buttons for eyes, it has no nose and its mouth is red with a black outline of its throat. Tulio's right eye and right ear are slightly higher than their counterparts on the left. The dress is formal in style, the colors of which vary depending on the appearance and sometimes you can wear a suit or just a shirt, but always wear a tie. The making of the puppet in the first seasonthey were two vests, a beige cashmere and a striped sweatshirt, both were used clothing and the eyes were buttons from an old jacket of the art director, Matías Iglesis, from the Aplaplac Production Company. As the program progresses, it is no longer the same, as various modifications were made.

Two people are needed to control Tulio: One to move the mouth and the right arm ( Pedro Peirano, his interpreter), and the other to move the left arm ( Daniel Castro ).

The pilot episode for TVN, Tulio's puppet is more deformed compared to the final model and in his hands he did not have the fingers spread. In the first season, Tulio has the head closer to the body, for later seasons and the film always retouches Tulio a bit, making his neck longer and appearing to be thinner. The union of the light fabric of the neck with the body is varied and ending in a straight, round or triangular shape. In the movie, Tulio's mouth is slightly less pronounced, making him unique compared to the earlier and later versions.

For the live shows Raising a star, Tuliopalooza and ending with the Triviña Festival, an XL version of the puppet with the larger head is used, to facilitate its viewing by the public. For the rest of the shows to date, the normal versions of the fourth season are used.