Jô Soares

Jô Soares (1938–2022) was a Brazilian comedian, actor, writer, director, and television host, best known for pioneering Brazilian late-night talk shows.

Jô Soares Onze e Meia: A Brazilian late-night talk show hosted by Jô Soares on SBT from 1988 to 1999. This show established his signature format of comic monologues and celebrity interviews.
Brazilian television: The television industry and broadcasting culture of Brazil. His career unfolded as Brazilian television expanded into a central national medium.
Chico Anysio: A Brazilian comedian, actor, and writer known for creating numerous television characters. Like Soares, Anysio built a major television career through an extensive cast of comic personas.
O Xangô de Baker Street: A 1995 comic mystery novel by Jô Soares, set in nineteenth-century Brazil. The novel became his best-known literary work and was adapted into a film.
Programa do Jô: A Brazilian talk show hosted by Jô Soares on TV Globo from 2000 to 2016. Its long run brought his late-night interviews to a broad national audience.
Stand-up comedy: A comic performance in which a performer addresses an audience directly, often delivering jokes and observations. His monologues drew on the direct address and topical humor of stand-up.
Renato Aragão: A Brazilian comedian and actor best known for the character Didi and the group Os Trapalhões. His popular screen comedy offers a contrasting strand of Soares’s generation of Brazilian entertainers.
A Família Tót: A Brazilian comedy film directed by Jô Soares and released in 1971. It represents his work behind the camera as well as in front of it.
Viva o Gordo: A Brazilian television comedy program built around Jô Soares’s characters and sketches. The show made his satirical character work a defining feature of his television career.
Satire: A form of expression that uses humor, irony, or ridicule to expose folly and criticize people or institutions. Political and social satire runs through his sketches, characters, and monologues.

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Ronald GoliasRelated: Soares and Golias were prominent comic performers in Brazilian television.