TV Pirata

Name: TV Pirata
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 8
Cast: Débora Bloch, Guilherme Karam, Cristina Pereira, Diogo Vilela, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Comedy8.019881 season · 34 episodes

Creator: Guel Arraes
Status: Ended
Language: Portuguese
Studio: Estúdios Globo

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Cast

Débora Bloch
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Guilherme Karam
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Cristina Pereira
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Diogo Vilela
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Luiz Fernando Guimarães
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Regina Casé
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Cláudia Raia
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Louise Cardoso
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Ney Latorraca
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Marco Nanini
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Pedro Paulo Rangel
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Denise Fraga
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Storyline

TV Pirata was a weekly Brazilian comedy show aired on Rede Globo between 1988 and 1990, being re-aired monthly in 1992. Some of the writers later went on to form the comedy troupe Casseta & Planeta. The show was first aired in April 1988 to fill a gap on Rede Globo's Tuesday night prime time line-up and its comedy was inspired by sketch comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live and Monty Python's Flying Circus with a no-nonsense approach to Brazilian comedy; however, it mixed a new style of comedy with elements of Brazilian culture such as football, politics, pop culture, telenovelas, economics and celebrities. No well-known figure or member of any economical or social class was spared from the show's cutting edge humor. The premise of the show was a TV studio being invaded by pirates who took over the programming department and put a tape on the air with some "unusual" programming. Another new element to Brazilian audiences was the performers, who weren't the usual comedic actors, but dramatic actors doing more comedic roles.