Shaolin (humorist)

Shaolin
Birth name Francisco Jozenilton Veloso
Born May 8, 1971
Coremas, Paraíba,  Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Genres Satire

Francisco Jozenilton Veloso (born May 8, 1971), better known by his pseudonym and stage name Shaolin, is a Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, humorist, comedian and media presenter.

Biography

He was born in Coremas, Paraíba. He started his career at the Teatro Municipal Severino Cabral in Campina Grande. He also worked as a presenter on Rádio Campina Grande[1] and drew cartoons for the newspapers A Palavra, Jornal da Paraíba and Revista Nordeste.

In December 1994 he married Laudiceia Veloso. The couple have 2 children.

Shows

His best-known shows are Domingão do Faustão; A Praça É Nossa; Show do Tom; and most recently Tudo è Possível ("All is possible") with Ana Hickmann, in which he satirizes Brazilian celebrities, for example Leonardo, Joelma (singer in the duo Banda Calypso) and Zezé di Camargo.

Shaolin and his friend Tiririca

Accident

On January 19, 2012, Shaolin was seriously injured in a traffic accident when his car collided with a truck in Campina Grande on the highway BR-230.[2][3] Until May he remained in a coma in intensive care,[4] and then left hospital to go home although he had not recovered from his injuries. In September 2012 he began communicating again using movements of his eyelid helped by a machine.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Shaolin: A mundiça continua from A União (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Top 10: acidentes famosos (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Humorista Shaolin sofre grave acidente de carro em Campina Grande (PB) (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Shaolin muda da UTI para quarto para evitar infecção, diz mulher do humorista (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Após ganhar aparelho que lê movimento dos olhos, Shaolin volta a conversar com a família (Portuguese)

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