Thiago Ventura: POKAS

He parked Dark for three days. Then he explained a slang.

Thiago Ventura told Correio do Povo that beating Netflix Brazil's Top 10 felt like a keeper saving a penalty in extra time. Pokas sat first for three days and knocked Dark off the step. He was 31, from Taboão da Serra, and this was his first Netflix solo. He already had two taped hours on YouTube, latestnetflix.com contends, Isso é Tudo que Eu Tenho and Só Agradece. Pokas closed the trilogy. After this, he said, no more past. Only the day he was living.,

UOL printed the origin of the title. Pokas comes from poucas ideias, a quebrada line for I do not want much talk with this person, or I will answer in kind. In the hour he turns the slang into a five-point life rule. Principles first, he told the paper. If you decide who you are, you stop living in the chaos you were born into. GQ got the street translation. Do not want the chat, or clap back. Either way, five points.,

A scout bought a live night.

Netflix did not invent the set. GQ said the 2019 run at Teatro Frei Caneca drew more than 100,000 people before the streamer took it. A representative watched a solo and made the offer. Joana Mazzucchelli and Fabio Ock directed. Ventura wrote it. TMDB lists 82 minutes, out in the US on 2 July 2020. The official trailer, posted a week earlier, sold humble origins, the hood, and politics without fear. Later he told Estado de Minas you will never see him talk politics because he does not know it. What he knows is idiots. The platform and the comic were not selling the same product.,,,

Laugh with the block, not at it.

That is the line he kept repeating. Correio do Povo got the clean version. He does not want to be another comic who laughs at the quebrada. He wants to laugh with it. On UOL he called himself a pioneer in the absence of a reference, the first standup about that universe, and said kids now write to him wanting to tell jokes the same way. Richard Pryor is the named influence, 1979 bits about cops hitting poor Black people that still sounded current. Neymar, Marília Mendonça, Lewis Hamilton, and Gabriel Jesus were on the fan list. YouTube sat above 4.5 million. Instagram 4.2 million.,

He used to be a bank clerk with an administration degree. Estado de Minas says the switch flipped on a 2006 Jô Soares interview with Diogo Portugal. Open mics at 21. Third one, he wanted out. He stayed after deciding comedy had to be the only job. Pose de quebrada, a gag about older friends on his street, jumped from the bit to a national-team celebration and a video game. He asked GQ when a joke last did that. The fourth hour, Modo efetivo, was already touring when COVID shut the rooms. Pokas is the one that went around the world first.,