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Casseta & Planeta
Brazilian comedy group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who ran a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo between 1993 and 2010.[1] The humour featured on the show is mostly sketches, relating to broad Brazilian pop culture subjects (soap opera, political satire, regional stereotypes, and others).
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The group founded a company called Toviassu Produções Artísticas ("Toviassu Artistic Productions"), whose name is an acronym composed of syllables from the phrase "Todo viado é surdo" – "Every gay is deaf"; which is the ending of a widely known Brazilian practical joke. 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 in 1988, first to promote a comedic mayoral candidacy for a chimpanzee, and later were hired by Rede Globo to become writers for the network's comedy shows, starting with TV Pirata. A few years later, they starred in their own show.