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Portal may refer to:

• Portal (architecture), a gate, door, or the extremeties (ends) of a tunnel
• Portal (fiction), a magical or technological doorway that connects two different locations.

Computing[link]

• Enterprise portal, a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools
• Intranet portal, a gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
• Portal rendering, an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
• Web portal, a site that functions as a point of access to information on the Internet
• Portals network programming api, a high-performance networking programming interface for massively parallel supercomputers

Entertainment[link]

• Portal (interactive novel), a 1986 video game by Activision
• Portal (video game), a 2007 video game by Valve Corporation
• Portal 2, the sequel to Valve's 2007 video game Portal
• Portal (TV series), a series about MMORPGs

Geography[link]

• Portal, California
• Portal, Georgia
• Portal, North Dakota

Music[link]

• Portall, a Thrash-Death Metal band from the Netherlands
• Portal (Australian band), a metal band from Australia
• Portal (UK band), a band from the UK
• Portals (album), a 2009 album by Arsonists Get All The Girls

Other uses[link]

• Portal (comics), a Marvel comic character
• Portal (Magic: The Gathering), a set in the Magic: The Gathering card game
• Portal Bridge, over the Hackensack River in New Jersey
• Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
• Clube Atlético Portal, a football club based in Uberlândia, Brazil
• Portals Athletic F.C., a defunct football club, based in Overton, England
• Portal (magic trick), an illusion performed by David Copperfield

People with the surname[link]

• Antoine Portal (1742–1832), French anatomist, doctor and medical historian
• Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971), British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
• Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal (1885–1949), British businessman and public servant
• Michel Portal (born 1935), French composer, saxist, and clarinetist
• Nicolas Portal (born 1979), French professional road bicycle racer
• Gerald Portal (1858–1894), British colonial diplomat

See also[link]

Portal portal

Portal Directory

• El Portal, Florida
• Hepatic portal vein, a vein that drains blood from the digestive system
• Portal venous system, an occurrence where one capillary bed drains into another through veins
• Portal frame, a construction method
• Portal stones, a type of stone monument
• Porthole

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Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask - detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and their attributes; marble, early second century AD, Via Ostiense - Louvre

Charlie Chaplin

Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.^[1] The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old",^[2] but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.^[3]

Satire and political satire use ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor. Satire is a type of comedy. Parody borrows the form of some popular genre, artwork, or text but uses certain ironic changes to critique that form from within (though not necessarily in a condemning way). Screwball comedy derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters. Black comedy is defined by dark humor that makes light of so called dark or evil elements in human nature. Similarly scatological humor, sexual humor, and race humor create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways. A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper class society) and uses humor to parody or satirize the behavior and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms, and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love.

Etymology[link]

Tragic Comic Masks of Ancient Greek Theatre represented in the Hadrian's Villa mosaic.

The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία kōmōidía, which is a compound either of κῶμος kômos (revel) or κώμη kṓmē (village) and ᾠδή ōidḗ (singing); it is possible that κῶμος itself is derived from κώμη, and originally meant a village revel. The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός kōmikós), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking".^[4] Of this, the word came into modern usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning.^[5]

Greeks and Romans confined the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense Dante used the term in the title of his poem, La Commedia. As time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter.^[5] During the Middle Ages, the term "comedy" became synonymous with satire, and later humour in general, after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms, such as hija (satirical poetry). They viewed comedy as simply the "art of reprehension", and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or troublous beginnings and happy endings, associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term "comedy" thus gained a more general semantic meaning in medieval literature.^[6]

In the late 20th century, emerged among scholars the tendency to pragmatically prefer the term laughter to comprehensively refer to the whole gamut of the comic, to avoid the classification in ambiguous and problematically defined genres and fields like humour, grotesque, irony, and satire.^[7][8]

History[link]

Dionysiac origins and Aristophanes[link]

A satyr masturbating. Detail of side B of a Greek column krater showing two satyrs and a maenad in a Dionysiac scene.

Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a comic playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies, 11 of which survive and are still being performed. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the earlier satyr plays, which were shamelessly obscene.^[9] Of the satyr plays only survive examples by Euripides which are not representative of the genre.^[10] In ancient Greece, comedy originated in bawdy and ribald songs or recitations apropos of phallic processions and fertility festivals or gatherings.^[11]

Around 335 BCE, philosopher Aristotle, in his work Poetics, stated that comedy originated in Phallic processions and the light treatment of the otherwise base and ugly. He also adds that the origins of comedy are obscure because it was not treated seriously from its inception.^[12] That said, comedy had its own Muse: Thalia.

Also in Poetics, Aristotle defined Comedy as one of the original four genres of literature. The other three genres are tragedy, epic poetry, and lyric poetry. Literature in general is defined by Aristotle as a mimesis, or imitation of life. Comedy is the third form of literature, being the most divorced from a true mimesis. Tragedy is the truest mimesis, followed by epic poetry, comedy and lyric poetry. The genre of comedy is defined by a certain pattern according to Aristotle's definition. Comedies begin with low or base characters seeking insignificant aims, and end with some accomplishment of the aims which either lightens the initial baseness or reveals the insignificance of the aims. A modern application of this theory would be the story the "ugly" guy who goes about things the wrong way, but in the end wins the "pretty" girl. Comedies usually also have elements of the supernatural, typically magic and, for the Ancient Greeks, the gods. Comedy includes the unrealistic in order to portray the realistic. For the Greeks, all comedies ended happily which is opposite of tragedy, which ends sadly.

In ancient Sanskrit drama[link]

After 200 BCE, in ancient Sanskrit drama, Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra defined humour (hāsyam) as one of the nine nava rasas, or principle rasas (emotional responses), which can be inspired in the audience by bhavas, the imitations of emotions that the actors perform. Each rasa was associated with a specific bhavas portrayed on stage. In the case of humour, it was associated with mirth (hasya).

Shakespearean and Elizabethan comedy[link]

Title page of the first quarto of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)

"Comedy", in its Elizabethan usage, had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays.^[13]

After the 19th century[link]

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (ca. 1950)

Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean

Jackie Chan at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival

Popov the Clown in 2009

Barry Humphries in character in London as "Dame Edna Everage" on the day of the 2011 Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton

The advent of cinema in the late 19th century, and later radio and television in the 20th century broadened the access of comedians to the general public. Charlie Chaplin, through silent film, became one of the best known faces on earth. The silent tradition lived on well in to the 20th century through mime artists like Marcel Marceau, and the physical comedy of artists like Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean. The tradition of the circus clown also continued, with such as Bozo the Clown in the United States and Oleg Popov in Russia. Radio provided new possibilities - with Britain producing the influential Goon Show after the Second World War. American cinema has produced a great number of globally renowned comedy artists, from Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, as well as Bob Hope during the mid-20th century, to performers like George Carlin, Robin Williams, and Eddie Murphy at the end of the century. Hollywood attracted many international talents like Canadian comics Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, and Mike Myers. Among the most successful non-Hollywood comics was Australian comedian Paul Hogan in character as Crocodile Dundee. Other centres of creative comic activity have been the cinema of Hong Kong, Bollywood, and French farce.

American television has also been an influential force in world comedy: with American series like M*A*S*H, Seinfeld and The Simpsons achieving large followings around the world. British television comedy also remains influential, with quintessential works including Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Dad's Army, Blackadder, and The Office. Australian satirist Barry Humphries, whose comic creations include the housewife and "gigastar" Dame Edna Everage, For his delivery of Dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, was described by biographer Anne Pender in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".^[14]

Studies on the theory of the comic[link]

The phenomena connected with laughter and that which provokes it have been carefully investigated by psychologists. They agreed the predominant characteristics are incongruity or contrast in the object and shock or emotional seizure on the part of the subject. It has also been held that the feeling of superiority is an essential factor: thus Thomas Hobbes speaks of laughter as a "sudden glory". Modern investigators have paid much attention to the origin both of laughter and of smiling, as well as the development of the "play instinct" and its emotional expression.

George Meredith, Essay on Comedy, said that "One excellent test of the civilization of a country ... I take to be the flourishing of the Comic idea and Comedy; and the test of true Comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." Laughter is said to be the cure to being sick. Studies show that people who laugh more often get sick less.^[15][16]

Forms[link]

Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. The different forms often overlap, and most comedy can fit into multiple genres. Some of the sub-genres of comedy are farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, and satire.

Performing arts[link]

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Historical forms[link]

• Ancient Greek comedy, as practiced by Aristophanes and Menander
• Ancient Roman comedy, as practiced by Plautus and Terence
• Burlesque, from Music hall and Vaudeville to Performance art
• Citizen comedy, as practiced by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson
• Clowns such as Richard Tarlton, William Kempe, and Robert Armin
• Comedy of humours, as practiced by Ben Jonson and George Chapman
• Comedy of intrigue, as practiced by Niccolò Machiavelli and Lope de Vega
• Comedy of manners, as practiced by Molière, William Wycherley and William Congreve
• Comedy of menace, as practiced by David Campton and Harold Pinter
• comédie larmoyante or 'tearful comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée and Louis-Sébastien Mercier
• Commedia dell'arte, as practiced in the twentieth-century by Dario Fo, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Jacques Copeau
• Farce, from Georges Feydeau to Joe Orton and Alan Ayckbourn
• Jester
• Laughing comedy, as practiced by Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege, Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh
• Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley Cibber and Richard Steele
• Shakespearean comedy, as practiced by William Shakespeare
• Stand-up comedy
• Dadaist and Surrealist performance, usually in cabaret form
• Theatre of the Absurd, used by some critics to describe Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco^[17]
• Sketch comedy

Plays[link]

• Comic theatre
  • Musical comedy and palace

Opera[link]

• Comic opera

Improvisational comedy[link]

• Improvisational theatre
• Bouffon comedy
• Clowns

Joke[link]

• One-liner joke
• Blonde jokes
• Shaggy-dog story
• Paddy Irishman joke

Stand-up comedy[link]

Stand-up comedy is a mode of comic performance in which the performer addresses the audience directly, usually speaking in their own person rather than as a dramatic character.

• Impressionist (entertainment)
• Alternative comedy
• Comedy club
• Comedy albums

Events and awards[link]

• British Comedy Awards
• Canadian Comedy Awards
• Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
• The Comedy Festival, in Aspen, formerly the HBO Comedy Arts Festival
• Comedy Walk, monthly comedy festival in Los Angeles
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Edinburgh Comedy Festival
• Halifax Comedy Festival
• Just for laughs festival
• Leicester Comedy Festival
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival
• New Zealand International Comedy Festival
• New York Underground Comedy Festival
• HK International Comedy Festival
• Vancouver Comedy Festival

List of comedians[link]

• List of stand-up comedians
• List of musical comedians
• List of Australian comedians
• List of British comedians
• List of Canadian comedians
• List of Finnish comedians
• List of German language comedians
• List of Indian comedians
• List of Italian comedians
• List of Mexican comedians
• List of Puerto Rican comedians

Mass media[link]

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Literature[link]

This section requires expansion.

• Comic novel
• Light poetry

Film[link]

• Comedy film
  • Anarchic comedy film
  • Gross-out film
  • Parody film
  • Romantic comedy film
  • Screwball comedy film
  • Slapstick film

Television and radio[link]

• Television comedy
  • Situation comedy
• Radio comedy

Lists of comedy television programs[link]

• British sitcom
• British comedy
• Comedy Central - A television channel devoted strictly to comedy.
• German television comedy
• List of British TV shows remade for the American market
• Paramount Comedy (Spain).
• Paramount Comedy 1 and 2.
• TBS (TV network)
• The Comedy Channel (Australia)
• The Comedy Channel (UK)
• The Comedy Channel (USA) not to be confused with HA! - channels that have merged into Comedy Central.
• The Comedy Network, a Canadian TV channel.
• G.O.L.D

See also[link]

Comedy portal

• List of comedies
• Humour
• List of genres

References[link]

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Footnotes[link]

Notations[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Comedy

Wikiversity has learning materials about Collaborative_play_writing

Wikisource has the text of the 1920 Encyclopedia Americana article Comedy.

• Comedy at the Open Directory Project
• A Vocabulary for Comedy from a professor at Dallas Baptist University

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Antônio Renato Aragão (born on January 13, 1935, in Sobral, Ceará) (stage name Didi Mocó Sonrisépio Colesterol Novalgino Mufumbbo^[1]) is a Brazilian comedian. He is best known for leading the television series Os Trapalhões.

Biography[link]

Aragão's parents are Paulo Aragão and Dinorah Lins Aragão. In 1955, he graduated as a reserve officer in the Brazilian Army (second lieutenant in the Infantry) by the CPOR. He then graduated in Law at the Universidade do Estado do Ceará in 1961. At 25, he won a competition at TV Ceará to work as "realizador" - a kind of director, writer and producer of shows, demonstrating his talent and soon after began acting. The first TV show he starred was Vídeo Alegre.

In 1963, Renato moved to Rio De Janeiro in order to study directing and soon was hired by TV Tupi to work in the comedy show A E I O URCA. A move to TV Excelsior in 1964 gave him the chance to create his own comedy show; Os Adoráveis Trapalhões was then born, where he acted with Wanderley Cardoso, Ivon Cury and Ted Boy Marino. Although he would have parts in many other comedy shows, Aragão would never forget the formula used in Adoráveis Trapalhões, and finally he would be able to give it definitive form in 1975, when Os Trapalhões debuted, back at TV Tupi, alongside Dedé Santana, Mussum, and Zacarias.

Renato Aragão acted in many films, some of them winning international awards, such as Os Vagabundos Trapalhões and O Cangaceiro Trapalhão, at the Festival Internacional de Cinema para a Infância e Juventude (Portugal), in 1984, and Os Trapalhões e a Árvore da Juventude ("The Trapalhőes and the Tree of Youth"), at the III Festival de Cine Infantil de Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela), in 1993.

In 1977, he founded Renato Aragão Produções Artísticas Ltda., tasked with the production of films, television programs, videos, and live shows, amongst other things. He received, in 1980, the title of Citizen of the State of Rio De Janeiro and, in 1982, the title of Illustrious Personality of the State of Rio De Janeiro, both granted by the City council of Rio De Janeiro. In 1991, he became special representative of the UNICEF and ambassador of the same agency, on behalf of Brazilian children. He was awarded the title of Chancellor of the Order of the Rio Branco by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, in 1994. In this same year, he was awarded with admission of the National Order of the Educative Merit, in the degree of officer, as indicated by the Ministry of the Education and the Sports. Still in 1994, Renato Aragão debuted a show in Portugal, invited by Portuguese broadcaster SIC, with the participation of the actors Dedé Santana, Robert Guillermo and several Portuguese actors. In 1995, he received the title of Paulistano Citizen, awarded by the City council of São Paulo. The group Os Trapalhões entered the Guinness Book of Records, in 1997, as the longest-running Brazilian TV comedy show.

Renato Aragão is married to his second wife, photographer Lílian Taranto. He has a daughter, Livian, with the current wife as well as four other children from his first marriage. Two notable episodes evidenced the religious side of Renato Aragão: the humorist once climbed the Christ the Redeemer statue, in Rio De Janeiro, to kiss the hand of the statue (which he had wanted to do in Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz, but was allowed only at the foot at the time), and made a pilgrimage on foot from São Paulo to Aparecida, carrying an image of Our Lady from Aparecida, to repay a promise to the saint.

Aragão hosts the yearly telethon Criança Esperança, with participation of several artists, collecting funds for children in need.

Renato spent some years away from TV during, feeling that with the death of his colleagues Zacarias and Mussum, the program Os Trapalhões would not make sense anymore. In 1998 he debuted a new show in a different format, A Turma do Didi. In 2000, he celebrated 40 years of his career. In 2002, his company Renato Aragão Producões Artísticas Ltda. celebrates 25 years of success. In this same year, his book Meus Caminhos was published.

Television[link]

• Vídeo Alegre (TV Ceará, 1961—1963)
• A E I O URCA (TV Tupi, 1964—1965)
• Os Legionários (TV Excelsior, 1965—1966)
• A Cidade Se Diverte (TV Excelsior, 1965—1966)
• Adoráveis Trapalhões (TV Excelsior, 1965—1966)
• Uma Graça, Mora? (TV Record, 1966—1969)
• Praça da Alegria (TV Record, 1966—1969)
• Quartel do Barulho (TV Record, 1966—1969)
• Café sem Concerto (TV Tupi, 1970—1971)
• Os Insociáveis (TV Record, 1972—1974)
• Os Trapalhões (TV Tupi, 1974—1976)
• Os Trapalhões (TV Globo, 1976—1993)
• Criança Esperança (TV Globo, 1986—)
• Os Trapalhões - Melhores Momentos de Todos os Tempos (reruns, TV Globo, 1994—1997)
• Os Trapalhões em Portugal (TV SIC, Portugal, 1994—1997)
• A Turma do Didi (TV Globo, 1998-2010—).
• Aventuras do Didi (TV Globo, 2010)

Discography[link]

• 2000 - Didi & Sua Turma
• 1996 - Trapalhões e Seus Amigos
• 1995 - Os Trapalhões em Portugal
• 1991 - Amigos do Peito - 25 Anos de Trapalhões
• 1988 - Os Trapalhões
• 1987 - Os Trapalhões
• 1985 - A Filha dos Trapalhões
• 1984 - Os Trapalhões
• 1984 - Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oroz
• 1984 - O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé
• 1983 - O Cangaceiro Trapalhão
• 1982 - Os Trapalhões na Serra Pelada
• 1982 - Os Vagabundos Trapalhões
• 1981 - Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões
• 1981 - O Forró dos Trapalhões
• 1979 - Os Trapalhões na TV
• 1975 - Os Trapalhões - Volume 2
• 1974 - Os Trapalhões - Volume 1

Filmography[link]

Solo[link]

• 2007 - Didi e a Pequena Ninja
• 2006 - O Cavaleiro Didi e a Princesa Lili
• 2005 - Didi, O Caçador de Tesouros
• 2004 - Didi Quer ser Criança
• 2003 - Didi, o Cupido Trapalhão
• 2000 - O Anjo Trapalhão
• 1983 - O Trapalhão na Arca de Noé
• 1968 - Dois Na Lona
• 1966 - Adorável Trapalhão

with Dedé Santana[link]

• 1999 - O Trapalhão e a Luz Azul
• 1998 - Simão, o Fantasma Trapalhão
• 1997 - O Noviço Rebelde
• 1971 - Bonga, O Vagabundo

with Os Trapalhões[link]

• 1991 - Os Trapalhões E A Árvore da Juventude
• 1990 - O Mistério de Robin Hood
• 1990 - Uma Escola Atrapalhada
• 1989 - Os Trapalhões na Terra dos Monstros
• 1989 - A Princesa Xuxa e os Trapalhões
• 1988 - O Casamento dos Trapalhões
• 1988 - Os Heróis Trapalhões - Uma Aventura na Selva
• 1987 - Os Trapalhões no Auto da Compadecida
• 1987 - Os Fantasmas Trapalhões
• 1986 - Os Trapalhões e o Rei do Futebol
• 1986 - Os Trapalhões no Rabo do Cometa
• 1985 - Os Trapalhões no Reino da Fantasia
• 1984 - A Filha dos Trapalhões
• 1984 - Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz
• 1983 - O Cangaceiro Trapalhão
• 1982 - Os Vagabundos Trapalhões
• 1982 - Os Trapalhões na Serra Pelada
• 1981 - Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões
• 1980 - O Incrível Monstro Trapalhão
• 1980 - Os Três Mosqueteiros Trapalhões
• 1979 - O Rei e os Trapalhões
• 1979 - O Cinderelo Trapalhão
• 1978 - Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas
• 1977 - O Trapalhão nas Minas do Rei Salomão
• 1977 - Simbad, O Marujo Trapalhão
• 1976 - O Trapalhão no Planalto dos Macacos
• 1975 - O Trapalhão na Ilha do Tesouro
• 1974 - Robin Hood, O Trapalhão da Floresta
• 1973 - Aladim e a Lâmpada Maravilhosa
• 1972 - Ali Babá e os Quarenta Ladrões
• 1966 - Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê
• 1966 - A Ilha dos Paqueras

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External links[link]

• Renato Aragão at IMDB
• Trapalhoes.hpg - Informações gerais sobre Renato Aragão e os Trapalhões
• Página sobre o humorista e o grupo Os Trapalhões
• Página de Renato Aragão na Unicef
• Biografia de Renato Aragão
• Página oficial de "A Turma do Didi"
• Renato Aragão - Galeria

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Danilo Gentili
Born	(1979-09-27) September 27, 1979 (age 32) Santo André, SP, Brazil
Occupation	Advertiser, comedian, writer, cartoonist, reporter, TV show host and businessman.
Website
http://www.danilogentili.com/

Danilo Gentili Junior, better known as Danilo Gentili (Santo André, September 27, 1979) is an advertiser, comedian, writer, cartoonist, reporter, businessman and talk-show host. Has emerged in Brazil as part of the comedy TV show CQC Brasil, Rede Bandeirantes and recently has got his own talk-show, Agora é Tarde.^[1]

Biography[link]

Danilo Gentili graduated in 2003 in Social Communication - Advertising UniABC.^[2] In 2006 he founded a comedy show called Comedia ao Vivo,.^[3] That same year, he joined the Stand-Up Comedy group Clube da Comédia. Danilo is a cartoonist and caricaturist. Wrote a column on Mondays for one of the newspapers with more printed issues in Brazil, Metro. In 2008 he was awarded 'Paulistano of the Year' by Veja megazine and collaborated with the largest circulation magazine in Brazil, Mad. In 2010, alongside his comedy partner Rafinha Bastos and producer Ítalo Gusso, opened at Rua Augusta in São Paulo, the first American style comedy club in Brazil, called Comedians Comedy Club.^[4]

CQC[link]

After a few appearances on TV, he was invited to participate in comedy TV show called Custe o que Custar (CQC), on TV Bandeirantes. On his “audition”, which was actually his first interview, he left the singer Agnaldo Timóteo on an awkward situation with all his nonsense questions. That interview paid off. It was a big success. What was supposed to be a temporary job, turned out to be his great starting point on TV.

The show became famous due to “Inexperienced Reporter” (Reporter Inexperiente), a part of the show where Danilo pretended to be a newbie interviewing guests and asking them all kinds of nonsense questions. After a while he started doing more than that on the show. So he stood out on CQC interviewing people all over, especially about politics. At the Congress he became that reporter that every politician was afraid of. They tried to avoid being ridiculed when faced with his questions and being confronted with truths (which the viewers themselves would like to do so).

During the CQC Season of 2010/2011, Danilo Gentili was conducting segments on the show called “Protest Now” and "National Identity".

On the last episode of the 2011 season, Danilo said his goodbye to the show so he could dedicate 100% of himself to his new project, the talk show "Agora é Tarde". At the occasion, he was honored by the show, which he was a part of for 4 seasons.

Agora é Tarde[link]

Host and co-creator of the late-night show Agora é Tarde (It's too late)^[5].. This late-night talk show premiered June 2011 on TV Band and got high ratings and great reviews. The show has Ultraje a Rigor as the supporting band, has comedy segments, stand-up monologue, round-table with comedians talking about recent news and Brazilian stars as the main guests. His main opponent, not directly in the format Jô Soares is a "dinosaur of the tv" as he says in his acid comments during their show. The dispute of late nights in Brazil begins to reassemble the remote battle between David Letterman and Jay Leno on American TV, Danilo and Jô often indirect attack each other in shows where they are asked and that they have improved the quality of shows and interest in being interviewed Brazilian celebrities. Danilo often says that Jô did not invent the format and that his opponent got settled for decades because he didn't have any competition. The media still doubter the politically incorrect boy of possibly becoming one of the biggest interviewers in Latin America. The show have been considered the Brazilian version of 'The Daily Show', with Jon Stewart.

Awards[link]

O Globo[link]

'Agora é Tarde' was chosen by this important newspaper publication as "Best 2011 TV Show" and Danilo Gentili, the 'Best TV Show Host'.

Troféu Imprensa[link]

'Agora é Tarde' was chosen by the Brazilian Press Association as the 'Best Talk Show' in the 2012 edition of the awards.

Critics' Recognition[link]

Other than the awards, the show has been highly acclaimed by the critcs for the quality of the show and also for the host's skills. According to the columnist Flávio Ricco, from UOL, "Danilo showed, more than anything, to be a real hard worker. A lot of what you see on the show is due to his strength and perseverance.'

Comedy Central Apresenta[link]

“Comedy Central Apresenta” (Comedy Central Presents) is the first show from Comedy Central produced in Brazil. Danilo Gentili was chosen by the channel as the host of this project, that mainly consists on a typical stand-up night club show.

Businessman[link]

In 2010, alongside his comedy partner Rafinha Bastos and producer Ítalo Gusso, opened at Rua Augusta in São Paulo, the first American style comedy club in Brazil, called Comedians Comedy Club,^[6] which opens Tuesdays through Sundays.

International Critics[link]

The New York Times[link]

In 2011 Danilo Gentili was mentioned in The New York Times for his comedian work in Brazil. About him, The New York Times wrote:

"Supplying Brazil’s Laugh Track" - With his baby face, boyish manner and goofy laugh, Mr. Gentili, 32, is the enfant terrible of comedy in Brazil. He has built his reputation on a willingness to ask celebrities — and especially politicians — questions that are considered embarrassing, outrageous or disrespectful. Recently he also got himself into trouble with a Twitter post that enraged Jewish community leaders in São Paulo. Even so, in June he became host of a late-night talk show on a national network and the big question now is: Will that format succeed in taming him? So far, the answer is no.^[7]

"A Brazilian’s Comic Mania: Social Media" - Danilo Gentili, partner of a comedy club, has more than a touch of Bill Maher in him, as shown by a DVD called “Politicamente Incorreto.” “We’re not considered artists, we’re compared to punk rockers playing in the garage to see what happens, and I’m fine with that,” said Mr. Gentili, 32, who has just been given a late-night talk show on the Bandeirantes network.^[8]

The Guardian[link]

"Brazil's stand-up comics lead social revolution against powerful elites" - Danilo Gentili comedy also drew attention of England’s leading newspaper, The Guardian. In Tom Phillips's article, Gentili is named a comedian that leads a revolution “a highly controversial but also wildly popular comedian who is blazing a trail for stand-up comedy in South America's largest nation, is a man who enjoys living on the edge.”

The newspaper has highlighted the following of Mr. Gentili: "We earn money this way. If people get on TV they'll earn more money, even better. But if they don't, damn it. This will keep happening. So they don't owe allegiance to anyone.",

"Anywhere in the world people understand that the role of the comedian is to crack jokes. One day they'll understand it in Brazil, too, I hope," he said.^[9]

Manager Magazin[link]

Danilo Gentili was once again mentioned in an international article. After the British 'The Guardian' ^[9] and American 'The New York Times',^[8] now it's German Manager Magazin - a business magazine from the Der Spiegel group, one of the most important ones in Germany - who mentions the Brazilian comedian.

In the article, that brings to attention the advances of Brazilian technology, Gentili is presented as an influential comedian online, with more than 2 million twitter followers. http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/it/0,2828,795446,00.html

Prospect Magazine[link]

Danilo Gentili made the headline of another British article, this time the 'Prospect Magazine' compares the Brazilian comedian with Jon Stewart and stats that Gentili is helping Brazil match economic weight with cultural clout.^[10]

Forbes Magazine[link]

The worldwide famous Forbes magazine add Danilo Gentili on their list of "Names you Need to Know". With a brief history on the comedians and a Q&A, the magazine highlights Danilo as the country’s latest comic phenomenon. ^[11]

Stand-up Comedy[link]

Politically Incorrect[link]

In October 2010, Danilo had his first stand-up solo about politics broadcast LIVE. Over a million people watched the show online. The show became a DVD, an audiobook on CD available for download and the book "Politically Incorrect."

Danilo Gentili: Volume 1[link]

Considered a great surprise for the Brazilian comedy, Danilo sees the world in a very peculiar way. With a humorous and critical view of events, he builds his shows from the common life: personal frustrations, relationships, politics, current events, unusual facts and even the most trivial things, everything becomes raw material for his funny and clever work. Danilo Gentili naturally seem to know the recipe of the genre: originality, surprise, charisma and connection with the audience, these are the perfect ingredients for a good dose of humor, the one of the best medicine there is. After years of performing in bars and theaters, Danilo selected the tested and approved material by his audience and put together a 1-hour solo show and recently has documented that show so it will come out as a DVD later 2011.

Work[link]

Television[link]

In São Paulo Gay Pride Parade, 2009.

Theater[link]

• 2005/2009 - Clube da Comédia Stand-Up - author and comedian
• 2006/2009 - Comédia Ao Vivo - creator, comedian and author
• 2009 - Divina Comédia - creator, comedian and author (alongside other comedians)
• 2007/2008 - Circuito Baviera Premium - comedian and author
• 2008/2011 - Danilo Gentili Volume 1 (Stand-Up Comedy Solo Show) - comedian and author
• 2010 - Politicamente Incorreto (Stand-Up Comedy Solo Show) - comedian and author
• 2011 - Virada Cultural de São Paulo

Cartoonist[link]

• 2009 - Mad Magazine - Writer and cartoonist

Businessman[link]

• 2010 - Comedians Comedy Club^[13] - Partner

Products[link]

DVD[link]

• 2010 - Politicamente Incorreto
• 2011 - Danilo Gentili - Volume 1

Books[link]

• 2009 - Como se Tornar o Pior Aluno da Escola (How to Become School's Worst Student) - Panda Books Publishing Company - author and illustrator
• 2010 - Politicamente Incorreto (Politically Incorrect) - Panda Books Publishing Company - author and illustrator

Games[link]

• 2011 - O Mundo vs Danilo Gentili (The World versus Danilo Gentili) –^[14]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Danilo Gentili on Twitter

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"Can I Get a Witness" is a 1963 hit song by Marvin Gaye on the Tamla (Motown) label. Written and produced by Motown songwriting and producing team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song was built among gospel-styled music and heralded Gaye's beginnings in the church with a rhythm and blues/rock and roll setting. The song featured Gaye on piano, playing a boogie pattern, The Funk Brothers, and members of The Supremes in the background accompanying Gaye. The song became a hit in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom, and British musicians Lulu, Dusty Springfield, The Rolling Stones, Sam Brown and Steampacket (which featured a very young Rod Stewart) recorded cover versions of the song. Gaye's version peaked at #22 on the Hot 100 chart and its title soon became a catchphrase. Lee Michaels' 1971 version reached #39 on the Hot 100; both his and Gaye's versions peaked during Christmas week.

In popular culture[link]

• Gaye's recording is featured in the 1999 biographical film The Hurricane.

Personnel[link]

• Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye
• Background vocals by The Supremes: Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers