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Brazil's stand-up comics lead social revolution against powerful elites by Tom Phillips

New breed of comedians enjoy wave of popularity for pushing boundaries and challenging nation's reputation for deferenceOne evening last October, Danilo Gentili took to a stage in Brazil's capital, Brasilia, and turned his satirical sights on the woman who weeks later would be elected Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff. He cracked a joke about how the former Marxist guerrilla was tortured during the coun…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM on October 1, 2011

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