Fui assistir ao espectáculo de Hugo Sousa. O 60% das piadas que entendi foram muito engraçadas. Deve haver um bilhete para não-lusófonos que custa menos dependente da nível de compreensão. Será mais justo, não achas? ☺️
O humorista fiz um erro da diplomacia muito grave. Comecei o espectáculo por perguntar quantas pessoas no público eram do norte do país, e falei um pouco sobre o norte. Depois quantos pessoas do centro, e finalmente do sul.
Tendo resumindo a nação inteira, começou com a sua rotina, mas esqueceu-se do facto da maioria dos Tugas em Londres serem madeirenses. “As Ilhas! Madeira!” gritaram todos. Quase acabou enforcado. Mas apesar disso, correu tudo bem.
Well, i keep saying its a real vintage year for Portuguese entertainment in London, and I’ve for tickets to see David Fonseca on the 1st of December, but the following day another comedian, Hugo Sousa is playing in Leicester Square. It’s actually at the Hippodrome Casino which I’ve never been in because it looks tacky AF, but I’ll break the habit of a lifetime for the chance to laugh at 75% of this guy’s jokes.
He has quite a lot of material on YouTube so I can tune in to his accent before I go.
Na sexta feira passada, fui ver um espetáculo do humorista Luís Franco-Bastos no Teatro Leicester Square. Acabou tarde e tive de imitar Fernão de Magalhães para chegar no meu covil porque parte da rede de transportes públicos estava com atrasos por causa dum acidente.
Mas valeu a pena! Gostei da sensação de ouvir duas horas de comédia e de entender quase tudo. Ao contrário do Manuel Cardoso, (cuja fala é composta exclusivamente de consoantes) Luís Franco-Bastos é um profissional treinado no uso de vogais também, o que torna as suas piadas mais fáceis de perceber. Havia anedotas sobre o seu novo carro, a sua tentativa de ser pai recorrendo à inseminação artificial, classes pré-parto, e os seus pais, entre outros assuntos. Perdi o fio à meada de vez em quando porque me fez lembrar cenas da minha própria vida, mas efetivamente, quando escutei com atenção, percebi tudo, até os palavrões (dos quais havia muitos!) e soltei umas boas gargalhadas, sobretudo quando imitou o treinador de pré-parto.
Gostaria de ver mais humoristas portugueses quando houver hipótese.
It looks like Manuel Cardoso isn’t the only Comedian coming to London this month – Hugo Sousa is too. That’s two portuguese comedy shows in the next week! Get in!
Discussing yesterday’s post with a friend, she pointed me to a sketch from a satirical show called Gato Fedorento (literally “Stinky Cat”) from 2007 which had a similar phrase in it. It’s actually not the same as the usage I’d heard, but it lives on as a meme, so I am definitely interested, and I spent some time understanding it anyway! The phrase is “É proibido mas pode-se fazer”.
The background is that in that year there was a referendum about reforming the abortion laws, which was quite a big deal in a largely catholic country. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had initially supported a referendum in 1997 but when it had finally come to the crunch ten years later he campaigned against it and set up a website critical of the plan called “Assim Não” (“Not like this”). Cynical political move or principled stand? Well, if I understand it, his reasoning was that in the ten years that had elapsed, he was out of power the Partido Socialista had launched the referendum, backed by a law they had written. The wording on the referendum remained “despenalização” (decriminalisation) but the law they were intending to pass was actually advocating “liberalização” (liberalisation), which he argued was slightly different. On top of that, there was an indication that women would be able to have abortions by their own choice, with no need to justify it on psychological, medical or other grounds, which he did not support. And he even goes on to paint a picture of a world where women are choosing abortions more-or-less at a whim. He is pretty ridiculous about it, actually. The bottom line was that he didn’t want to liberalise the conditions under which women could get abortions, he just wanted to take away the criminal penalty.
Here’s the original video.
(By the way, what’s the camera guy playing at? There are some really odd zoom shots and then, at about 2:00, he starts filming the guy through a glass on the table. That’s a pretty cool shot if you’re making an edgy police drama, but it’s weird AF in this context)
Anyway Gato Fedorento mocked him by having Ricardo Araújo Pereira repeat his speech (without the avant garde camera work) but spelling out the absurdity of how he wants it to work: “É proibido, mas pode-se fazer”. Or “It’s illegal but you can do it”.
Marcelo is the president now. Make of that what you will.
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