Why do you spend so much time to think about it?
PMR: Because I cannot explain it. What went wrong. A comedian, when you try to make a career of it, rehearse so much, dedicates a great deal of time to this that is guaranteed at least the public will appreciate your effort.
But do you have this notion when you wrote the texts and tests it, that the audience will laugh?
PMR: When you remember the joke is. When you start writing it, you convince yourself that won't, when you start rehearsing and you are quite sure it won't work, on the eve of the premiere are you are positively sure that you are absolutely not funny and are the largest s*** on the face of the earth forgive me my French! Premieres full of nerves and no matter if you have done many performances, I know that I'll debut with the absolute certainty that I don't master any of this, do not even know what the public will think, then they start laughing and you remember, ah! That's why this topic was funny! Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer, said that humor is an oral tradition and that was not meant to be written. It was to be counted, told and added. The process of writing humor, is to make a mockery of the momentum, the timing and to tame it all is a complicated process. The joke arises naturally and then you have to get a form that it always results in any place, any time, in any language and any type of audience.
Is there a taboo subject in your performances? One you have to deal with feet of wool?
PMR: I am always very careful to do standup comedy for two reasons: my background is in television programs and especially for children and my sensitivity on this dimension must be different. The teaching process is very strong and we are very careful when addressing certain issues for kids. I do lot of humor for companies, that kind of humor is what I call white collar. The use of words and swear language is very complicated. In these shows a free myself more, though there's always that tiny worry that tides along in the live shows, I released me and there are no taboo subjects. There are some subjects I go with feet of wool when? Sometimes we used rugged situations in the shows, but if we use elegant words and pictures, especially if we put ourselves in the position of the guy who is silly and not to convince the audience of our vision, but say only what we thought about it, then we can talk about any topic that no one takes it badly. There are issues that still have not dealt with, because I have no talent for this, such as serious illness, I have done however, shows for physicians, I can make such jokes with them because they have a relationship with the body more pragmatic, more down to earth. With regard to the general public, diseases and disability issues I go a step to the side. Although, there are comedians who have the talent or the nerve to go out there and succeed.
About your work in some companies, were speaking of your website Boole Sheat &Associates?
PMR: I have created as a consultant for companies to make humor and have been very successful. Is part of a standup comedy mix with the part of organizational analysis.
How does a comedian have a course so pragmatic?
PMR: From social psychology of organizations? Because at the time I did not know what I wanted to do. I started working in television, from early in programs for children, but never felt it as a full time occupation. I was invited again and again and always have been. The chance of doing theater also came that way. My career in theater and television was growing up without that much effort for me to do this, people liked and I was doing it. For good or bad, I was continuing my studies and social psychology turned out to be the course that fit more to what I like to study at the time I went to college. Luckily it turned out to coordinate well with my shows, because when companies hold conferences and speakers are invited, it is necessary that the orator to have some traces of actor and comedian and this is precisely what I do, along with the component of comedy with very serious themes as, results, management numbers and you can convey important messages through humor.
You have certain modesty in presenting a show to a personality of your environment? Comedians like you?
PMR: Many comedians known each other and hang together and this is a good thing. A person doesn't have this notion. The staff of five to midnight and I played football together, many comedians are friends since "time to get up and laugh" at SIC and we ended up admiring the work of one another. We all feel a little bit judges when we are acting, because many times in charitable events we're together. A shortwile ago I had a gig with Raminhos, Pedro Fernandes, a Brazilian comic Fernando Caruso, Luis Franco Bastos and Guilherme Fonseca. But with that we are always afraid, because the issues are the same and now? But, no problem, is not the same joke! I have the impression that Herman would make me nervous if he saw me act, or Ricardo Araujo Pereira
Are your references in terms of national comedy?
PRM: Yes, because they are references in the national comedy and why they are at a level of genius. Herman has a very long career and works absolutely brilliant, which were made thirty years, but they are still valid. They are ahead of their time. I still do not deprive with them enough to know them. People like Bruno Nogueira and Antonio Raminhos are my friends and I would feel more comfortable doing standup comedy with them to attend and be evaluated, because then the final question, I know what they have to say and vice versa.
