Welcome to beautiful Rio de Janeiro. Home to the world-famous Carnvial, Christ-the-Redeemer, Stan Getz’s Ipanema, caiprihinas, samba! And also home to a lot of Brazilian comedians, many of who took to ...

Brazilian stand-up comedian Rafinha Bastos, considered by the New York Times [pt] to be the celebrity who creates the most impact on Twitter, has raised much controversy by declaring in a show – and ...

Eduardo Mendes, also known as EddyTestosterone (EduTestosterona in Portuguese) writes the MTV-sponsored blog Testosterone: The Modern Macho Man's Blog (Testosterona, o blog do macho moderno). In late ...

Last Friday, the day that Brazil’s exhaustingly extravagant Carnaval celebrations officially started, scientists here announced that the feared Zika virus had been detected in urine and saliva. They ...

Updated: Aug. 27, 2010 It’s always tough getting people interested in party politics in Brazil, a nation where ideology is non-existent, political parties stand for little more than organized power ...

This docuseries presented by Fábio Porchat brings together some of the best Brazilian comedians to talk about humor, its limits, its relationship with politics, and other topics. We have accounts from ...

The imprisonment of former billionaire Eike Batista on corruption charges is fueling much schadenfreude in Brazil. Social media memes proliferate imagining life behind bars for the famously flamboyant ...