Marcelo Madureira
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Marcelo Madureira | |
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 Marcelo Madureira (photo by José Cruz/ABr) | |
| Born | Marcelo Barreto Garmatter May 24, 1958[1] |
| Known for | Actor, Comedian |
Marcelo Madureira is the stage name of Marcelo Barreto Garmatter (Curitiba, May 24, 1958), a Brazilian comedian. He was part of the troupe that developed and presented between 1992 and 2010, the comedy show Casseta & Planeta Urgente at Rede Globo. Along with another group member, Hubert, he writes the Coluna do Agamenon to the newspaper O Globo.[1] He was professor of mathematics of an old Brazilian education program, MOBRAL[2] and is a graduate in Production Engineering at the School of Engineering at UFRJ,[3] having worked as an engineer in the Planning Department of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES).[4] Madureira is a black belt in judo and has been married for 25 years to the psychoanalyst Claudia, with whom he had three children.[2]
Marcelo Madureira lived in Curitiba until age 13, when he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro.[2] Son of former members of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB),[5] Madureira studied in a school which now he describes as "a den of Communism" and where he became active in left-wing underground organizations (he was a member of the PCB).[2]
Madureira does analysis since 14-year-old, a custom in his family (including his parents). He argues that "psychoanalysis is the aerobics of the soul." But he admits that has relationship problems with others and defines himself as a person of "difficult temperament, irascible, sometimes."[2]
Although he claims to do "serious humor" (his older brother considered him a "Brazilian Woody Allen"), Madureira paradoxically states that his "mental age is 13 to 14 years old, most of the time."[2]
Casseta & Planeta
Since 1978, along with four university colleagues, he began publishing the humorous tabloid Casseta Popular, which in 1986 became the Almanaque Casseta Popular magazine. In 1992, the Almanac merged with the humour newspaper Planeta Diário (Daily Planet), which has led to the magazine Casseta & Planeta that lasted until 1995.[6]
Despite having been a Communist in his youth, Madureira said he had "no aversion to Globo,"[2] a television network linked to the Brazilian military regime (1964–1985).[7] This undoubtedly made things easier when he and his fellow comedians were hired by Rede Globo in 1992, to star in the comedy show Casseta & Planeta Urgente in primetime on Tuesday nights. Although the President of the Globo Organizations, Roberto Marinho, feared the reactions against a program whose humour he regarded as "scatological",[8] it proved to be a great success, with the group being ranked "the most powerful artists of the country" in 2003 by Veja,[9] and the show lasting until 2010 (four years after the death of Bussunda, the group's most popular member).[1]
