 He was reunited with Carreras for the film's 1972 sequel, wrote later that year for Fernando Siro in his picaresque comedy, "Autocine mon amour", and in 1976, earned his first credit as lead writer in Palito Ortega's "Dos locos en el aire".Writing for leading local television comic Tato Bores in 1980, Mesa first became widely known as a performer on the radio, rather than on the screen, with his popular Radio Mitre show, "Tenis de mesa"; the name of the show ("table tennis") was a play on his own last name, a witticism that became part of his act on many of his subsequent productions.Perhaps the most successful of these was "Mesa de noticias" ("News Desk").