| Danilo Gentili | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 27, 1979 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]
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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]
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".
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 comments acids 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 with acid in programs 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 your opponent by getting settled decades without competition, the media still sniffed at the boy politically incorrect of Saint Andrew, possibly, become one of the largest in Latin America and maybe tv Brazil is the response to Jon Stewart. The premiere, always very funny commercials from football, "They gave a program to Danilo Gentili, Now it's too late". Recently, Danilo has been exchanging messages with David Letterman, and will be a guest in early 2012.
“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.
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.
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]
"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]
Danilo Gentili was once again mentioned in an international article. After the British 'The Guardian' [10] and American 'The New York Times',[11] 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
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.[12]
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."
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.
| Períod | Title | Station | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 - currently | Custe o Que Custar | Rede Bandeirantes | Reporter | |
| 2011 - currently | Agora é Tarde | Rede Bandeirantes | Presenter | [13] |
| 2012 | Comedy Central Apresenta | Comedy Central e VH1 | Presenter |