A teoria do humor brasileiro em movimento

Abstract

Due to the replacement of foreign series by humorous contents in Brazil produced according to national preferences, TV Globo began the creation of a humorous standard in a program time called "Terça Nobre", which has contained a structure in constant maturation since its creation in 1988. Its typological and comic core receives the influence of content produced by the internet. This thesis studies the characteristics of the most successful humorous series of the TV and Internet: of the TV, at the time of “Terça Nobre” in the years 1988 and 2018; and of the Internet, on the YouTube cast in 2006. In this study, we formulated a hypothesis that the humoristic structure used in the program “Terça Nobre” influenced the development of the content available on the Internet through the maintenance of some formulas, as well as the innovation of others. Conversely, a maturation of the language of the internet contributed for some nuances that have changed a television language. The product of this cycle is a constant update of the Brazilian humor and, thus, the establishment of guidelines for the elaboration of a Theory of Brazilian Humor in its manifestation in the contemporary audiovisual media. In this context, this thesis aims to identify and analyze in a systematic way the Brazilian humorous production as a basis for the analysis of a representation in the functioning of media humor in Brazil today. When a humorous language is adopted, we use the concepts of 'sphere', 'style', 'composition' and 'theme' by Mikhail Bakhtin (1997 [1979]), intertextuality of Kristeva (2012 [1967]) and Genette (2010 [1930]), as a way of establishing the main field, which articulates with the idea of materiality of the humor (content, form, occasion and cause) from the standpoint of the classical foundations of the notion of the “laugh language” of Bergson (1983 [1940]). It establishes a matrix of typological analysis of humor based on several authors such as Raskin (1985) and Propp (1992 [1976]). Because it is a broad theme, of relevance and innate in a human being, it features systematically the several details of humorous acts. Finally, argues that the Brazilian audiovisuals humor is constantly changing and is part of Brazilian Humor Theory, which describes the genre, the reasonable criteria of jokes, the matrix of typological analysis and the general structure of a humorous action.