From late nights waiting for the subway to spending on Uber, would-be stand-ups talk about the routine of getting on stage and going home
Behind the success of the stand up comedy on the Internet, the comedians from the suburbs dream of occupying the same name space already established in the genre. For this, some take care of the distance between the house and the places of the show and a double working day to go on stage.
These comedians find support in the friendships they have built with their professional partners to deal with obstacles in their daily life. This is the case of Felipe Hatori, 25, resident in Suzano, in Grande San Paolo. He started making humorous videos for YouTube in 2015 and has taken a liking to scriptwriting ever since.
“YouTube was booming. I wanted to write jokes, I thought about standing up and started studying. I only took the stage in 2017 to do an opening night. I haven’t stopped since then, ”she recalls.
At the age of 17, Hatori even opened a cell phone and computer repair shop, but the following year it went bankrupt. Subsequently, he worked in third-party stores in the same field. He woke up early, went to work and then went out for shows in bars and theaters.
Only in 2021 did the comedian stop reconciling the job of shopkeeper with shows, and began to devote himself only to humor. According to him, the support of colleagues is essential to stay on the scene.
“It has a strong reinforcement, a great audience that is working too hard to make it happen. Juliano Bezerra, for example, is a guy with whom I run into him from the beginning. We also meet more often to write together ”.
Juliano Bezerra, 30, a resident of Guaianases, in eastern São Paulo, is currently writing screenplays for Netflix, Parafernalha and Planeta Podcast, as well as acting in cabaret shows.
Today Hatori is part of the “Os Japas” quartet, together with Atila Shinhe, Renato Kunichiro, Richard Sakamoto and Tossiro Neto. He is also a member of “Bateu a Nave”, with Gabriel Lacerda, Gil Santos and André Smith, as well as writing screenplays for comedian Jonathan Marques’ video.
“It’s a great audience that has come from the neighborhood, from a difficult condition and are struggling to reconcile the comedy, get the job done and survive,” he says.
routine trouble
Waiting for the metro to open is one of the most frequent perrengues among the comedians living in the neighborhood. Shows that finish late, combined with the distance from the presentation venues, make professionals spend the night waiting for the first boarding.
Yago Flauzino, 30, resident in Ferraz de Vasconcelos, in Grande San Paolo, illustrates the case well. “I slept on Habib’s bench waiting for the subway to open because the show was far away and ended late. I also slept in the station itself. Taking the first train at 4:40 to return is very difficult, ”he says.
He can’t make a living from comedy alone, so during the day he works as a production assistant in a pet industry. She also highlights the expenses with the value of the transport or even to consume something in place of the presentation.
“I make money by day and comedy takes over by night. It ends up generating this cost, right? Before I could live on comedy and pay the bills, but the pandemic has arrived [da Covid-19] and I broke my legs, ”he jokes.
Recently Flauzino has returned to producing shows in cabaret clubs, being responsible for the organization and conduct of the event on site. “I had stopped production due to problems with the bar managers, but I came back because some doors closed,” he contextualizes.
A broken mine on stage
Before she quit her commercial marketing job, app racing was common in the life of Jessica Bita, 33, a resident of Jardim Ângela, in southern São Paulo, to return safely from concerts.
“My friend Ali Porto and I always share the Uber. We are committed to following each other so as not to return alone. We come in the grace of God,” he jokes.
The kick to comedy was through the theater. Jessica attended Macunaíma Theater School in 2008 and, between 2009 and 2010, she did professional theater for São Paulo City Hall.
The humor was accentuated at that moment, when he noticed the ease of creating. “I could bring a great wave of humor. Some scenes weren’t comical and ended up being funny. He was like a character, “she recalls.
In the meantime she attended advertising and propaganda college, from 2011 to 2014, and became a mother in 2016. It was only in 2019 that she began to devote herself to stand up comedy – close to the start of the pandemic, a factor that made the new challenge hard.
“It is difficult until today. My son is six and I usually leave him to my mom to do the shows. There are comical women who carry their children on their feet, but I don’t have the courage, precisely because it is difficult to return, ”she comments.
Jessica is inspired by the comedians Thiago Ventura, Murilo Couto, Bruna Louise and Arianna Nutt. “There are gigantic women, like Bruna Louise, but Thiago Ventura made us believe that it is possible to bring the stages that happen in the hood to the stage,” she explains.
“I like the experience of being a hood, of telling the truth about where I live and of guarding my space. There are few broken mines in the stand up. Not everyone identifies with the public, but there is always one ”, she concludes.
Source: Terra
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