Casseta & Planeta

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Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo. The humour featured on the show is mostly satirical, relating to religious or ethical groups, and minorities (Portuguese, Jewish, politicians, homosexuals, drunkards, Gaucho, natives of Bahia, Argentineans, and others).

The group founded a company called Toviassu Produções Artísticas (Toviassu Artistic Productions) (the name Toviassu is an acronym composed of the syllables from the phrase "Todo viado é surdo" – "Every fag is deaf"). Each one of the seven members has a specific function within the company. They present their TV show at Rede Globo and publish a website and many books, among other products, for example the "Machobol" (a parody of frescobol which is a game similar to tennis played in Brazilian beaches).

Originally a magazine named Casseta Popular and a humour newspaper called O Planeta Diário (in a nod to Clark Kent's Daily Planet), the two teams joined forces and were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's humour shows. In a few years, they starred their own show.

1 Members
2 The TV Show
- 2.1 Some current skits
3 Other media
4 External links

[edit] Members

Beto Silva
Bussunda
Cláudio Manuel
Hélio de La Peña
Hubert
Marcelo Madureira
Reinaldo

NOTE: Bussunda died June 17, 2006, victim of a heart attack. He was covering the World Cup in Germany.

The host Maria Paula is sometimes considered the 8th member, at least for the TV show.

[edit] The TV Show

Casseta & Planeta Urgente is probably the most popular comedy in Brazilian TV. It is the next generation of TV Pirata, a late 1980s humour show of the same network. This is easy to see because it has the same style and the same cast of writers. Casseta is popular because there isn't anything that escapes from their satires. A good clue for Casseta's popularity is that their jokes are popular in the entire country.

[edit] Some current skits

Seu Creysson a man who speaks a language so botched-up and full of solecisms that is quite impossible to understand him. This is a pun on the recent tendency to lower the level of culture on TV.
Plantão Casseta & Planeta Casseta & Planeta Breaking News, with a lot of satire and frequent use of stock or fabricated footage replacing actual events. For instance, they once replaced George W. Bush and Dick Cheney with Pinky and the Brain.
Organizações Tabajara : a fictitious monopolist company, which makes SNL-like advertisements. It has to compete with the Group Capivara - Seu Creysson.
A CPI ao vivo e se mexendo (Legislative Inquiry Commission (a)live and moving.)
Novas e semi-novas anedotas do mensalão (New and not so new jokes from the Mensalão scandal.)
Fucker and Sucker : spoof to the police shows, starred by "a pair of two double cops" from the USA and dubbed to Portuguese out of synchronization. Besides being a pun on bad dubbing, the show also explores the sheer differences between the way police work is carried on both in the US and in Brazil.
Tabajara Futebol Clube : the worst soccer team in the world. Marrentinho Carioca and Vaca (cow in Portuguese, which is, in fact, a cow in uniform) are the team "stars". Tabajara plays a lot with the catchphrases used by footballers too.
Sauna Gay - a gay sauna, led by Wanderney - who claims that he isn't gay -, along with his "partner" Peludão. In 2005, it became a cultural place, visited by famous bands, like CPM 22 and Detonautas.
Bost: spoof of the popular TV show Lost. The name "Bost" is a play on the Portuguese word "bosta" (crap) and the show's title.

There are also some satire versions of people that are known in Brazil like:

Fátima Bernardes: Anchor of the daily news program Jornal Nacional. (Ótima Bernardes)
Glória Maria: Anchor of Fantástico a news program broadcasted every Sunday by Rede Globo. (Chicória Maria)
Drauzio Varella: Medical reporter of Fantastico. (Drauzio Careca)
Marcos Valerio: Marketeer that was involved in the Mensalao Scandal. (Marcos Mensalério)
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva: President of Brazil. Each time Lula appears they cast him with a different surname, usually mocking something he has done recently, like, for instance "Luiz Ignorácio Lula da Silva", when he claimed that he had no knowledge of the Mensalão scandal (Ignorância is "ignorance" in Portuguese, and means both "lack of knowledge" and "stupidity").

[edit] Other media

Casseta & Planeta also released several best-selling humorous books, a few music albums and the movie A Taça do Mundo é Nossa, which takes places in the early 1970s, the age of the military dictatorship in Brazil.