Casseta & Planeta

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. The humour featured on the show is mostly sketches, relating to broad Brazilian pop culture subjects (soap opera, political satire, regional stereotypes, and others).

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 faggot 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.

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