Jô Soares

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José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares (January 16, 1938) is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro. After being educated in Europe and the United States, Soares returned to Rio and worked at TV Rio in 1958 during comedy shows for the station. He acted as an American in Carlos Manga's O homem do Sputnik. In 1971, Soares started working at Rede Globo.

In 1988, Soares moved to SBT and hosted a talk-show, Jô Soares Onze e Meia, until 1999. In 2000, Soares took his show's format (very similar to David Letterman's) back to Rede Globo, now called Programa do Jô.

He's known as a very educated person, who speaks many languages, such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italian besides his birth language, Portuguese.

His first novel O Xangô de Baker Street was written in 1995 and has already been published in several other countries and was made into a film in 2000. He has put out various jazz CDs. He has also produced many plays including a recent version of Henry VIII.