10 comedy shows that made history on Brazilian TV

Who laughs today with shows like “Tá no Ar” or “Zorra”, owes these moments of joy to the decades that were built by some of the best actors and comedians in Brazil. Some are still very much alive today in the memory of all of us.

O awesome.club recalls from now on some of those attractions that made history on Brazilian television, some from the time when the images were in black and white.

Exhibition: 1967-1971

One of the most important comedies on Brazilian TV, it was broadcast on Saturday night in the prime time of television in the late 1960s. With an audience and in a unique setting, the living room of a middle-class house in São Paulo, the Record program was a huge success. The cast included, among others, Renata Fronzi, Ronald Golias and Jô Soares, who was a writer for the program alongside Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega.

One of the most remarkable moments was the episode that had the participation of Pelé. Gordon butler, a character played by Jô Soares, teaches the King of Football how to take a penalty.

Exhibition: 1970-1973

The first attraction that had Jô Soares as a big star, the attraction also had Ricardo Corte Real, another star of the “Trapo Family”, in addition to talents like Max Nunes, Jô’s eternal partner. The importance of “Make Humor, Not War” is not small. Before him, Brazilian humorists were adaptations of existing formats in radio and theater. This was the first to be made especially for TV viewing.

A cast that also had Renata Fronzi (another from “Família Trapo”) and Sandra Bréa, among others. The attraction featured paintings that presented some of the characters who were immortalized in the interpretation of Jô Soares, such as Norminha, a young hippie singer. It is the cradle of what would become, years later, “Viva o Gordo”.

Exhibition: 1977-1995

One of the longest-running comedies on Brazilian television, the attraction led by Renato Aragão, Didi, aired on Sunday nights on TV Globo, before “Fantástico”, but its trajectory had already begun before. Since 1966, Didi and his talented co-star Dedé were already the stars of the program “Adoráveis ​​Trapalhões” on the defunct TV Excelsior. They then went through Record, when Mussum joined the group, and only at Tupi was the group completed, with the arrival of Zacarias.

The program consisted of a series of skits and musical attractions and parodies that did not necessarily have a connection to each other. A parody of “Teresinha”, a song by Chico Buarque famous in the voice of Maria Bethânia, hilariously starring Didi, became very famous.

Exhibition: 1982-1990

Chico Anysio is a kind of Pelé of Brazilian humor. His debut on TV took place at the end of the 1950s, but it was with the Chico Anysio Show, in the days of TV Globo (the attraction was also shown in other periods and stations), that he lived his most successful period and gave the well-deserved notoriety to comedian from Ceará, who died in 2012.

Chico immortalized hundreds of characters and types, such as Alberto Roberto, Bento Carneiro (the Brazilian vampire), Professor Raimundo and Salomé, some of whom were featured in other programs, such as “Zorra Total”.

Exhibition: since 1987

A simple format, a man sitting on a white square where different types pass in sketches that always have the same setting (the square). The humorous program that has been on the air for the longest time in Brazil is shown by SBT and follows the idea of ​​“Praça da Alegria”, whose figure was sitting on the bench Manuel de Nóbrega, father of Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega — who was the final editor. of attraction. The program also has an important role: it employed several actors and comedians who were unemployed or in a difficult situation.

Full of catchphrases and extremely popular humor, “A Praça a Nossa” remains to this day one of SBT’s biggest audiences and advertising revenue. Without renewing and keeping the public.

Exhibition: 1988-1990 and 1992

It is no exaggeration to say that TV Pirata transformed television humor in Brazil. Just three years after the end of censorship and the military dictatorship, the program brought together a group of talented writers and actors, mixing young and experienced people and people from other media, with no experience in TV. Acid humor, as had never been done in the country, mocked television itself and made famous characters who are remembered to this day, such as Barbosa, played by Ney Latorraca.

Cláudia Raia, a sex symbol at the time, had to fight with director Guel Arraes to play Tonhão, a lesbian prisoner who was responsible, according to Cláudia, for making people see her as an actress. “It was a television made by people who had watched television since they were little and a type of actor who had a different mood”, says Regina Casé to the website “Memória Globo.

Exhibition: 1990-1995 and 2001

Originally created as a radio attraction — it was created in 1952 on the Mayrink Veiga radio station —, it debuted on television in 1957, as a part of the program “Noites Cariocas”, on TV Rio. But it had its period of enormous success in the early 1990s, with Chico Anysio leading as a ladder a group that brought together some of the main comedians in the country’s history. In addition to having among his students actors like Costinha, Grande Otelo, Lúcio Mauro, Rogério Cardoso, Zezé Macedo and Zilda Cardoso, he also revealed talents like Tom Cavalcante.

The most famous of the catchphrases in a program full of catchphrases was that of Chico Anysio himself, in the skin of Professor Raimundo Nonato: while making a sign of a small amount with his index finger and thumb, he said “and the salary, look”. A new version of “Escolinha” debuted in 2015 with new actors in the roles of the old characters and Bruno Mazzeo, Chico’s son, as Raimundo.

Exhibition: 1992-2010

The group of humor writers from Rio de Janeiro exploded in the 1980s, divided into two teams. One, he produced the newspaper “O Planeta Diário”. Another was responsible for the magazine “A Casseta Popular”. The two newsrooms got together and started writing television programs, such as “TV Pirata”, until they gained their own attraction in 1992, on TV Globo. Innovative and outspoken, they clashed with their acid and political humor when the military dictatorship (and censorship) had ended just seven years ago.

Characters such as Maçaranduba, Seu Creysson and President Viajando Henrique Cardoso became famous, as well as paintings involving the Tabajara Organizations and parodies of Globo’s own programs, mainly soap operas. The group starred in a film and today they have a YouTube channel — there are only five, since Bussunda died in 2006 and Reinaldo left the team.

Exhibition: 1996-2002

Heir to “Família Trapo”, the TV Globo humorist kept the same characteristics as its predecessor: recorded in theater, with the unique setting of a living room in an apartment in São Paulo, with an audience and full of improvisation by the group of actors who had Miguel Falabella , Marisa Orth, Luís Gustavo and Aracy Balabanian in all seasons. It aired from 1996 to 2002 on Sunday nights and was made into a movie years later, released in 2019.

Of the most striking moments, two were featured by Falabella: the catchphrase “Cala a boca, Magda”, directed at the unintelligent woman played by Marisa Orth, and her character’s hatred of the poor, always ending with the catchphrase “I have horror of poor!”

Exhibition: 2008-2015

The program’s format comes from Argentine TV, but the importance of the attraction (Custe o Que Custar) is undeniable. In a mixture of humor and journalism, he put his finger on the wound in several Brazilian social and political problems, interviewing and asking questions to politicians that few people had before had the courage to ask. Presented almost every season by veteran Marcelo Tas, it brought together in front and behind the camera a group of talented young people, many of whom have continued with solid careers to this day, such as Marco Luque, Rafinha Bastos, Danilo Gentili, Dani Calabresa and Monica Iozzi.

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