Gato Fedorento

Starring:

• Tiago Dores
• Miguel Gois
• Ricardo Araújo Pereira
• Zé Diogo Quintela

Gato Fedorento (German: " Smelly Cat" ) is a Portuguese comedy television series.

Prehistory

The four friends began to show in an Internet blog skits. The name Gato Fedorento (German: " Smelly Cat" ) they chose based on a song from the American TV series Friends, called Smelly Cat.

Success story

The television station SIC let it produce sketches out of them under other programs, and then offered them his own show. The four seasons they are not numbered but named it after typical, simple Portuguese family name. This was part of the parodies of their skits, they often showed as a naive, uneducated country people or simple-minded urbanites who always had all the same last name in the appropriate season, which aimed at slight criticism of the uniform masses. The first ( Série Fonseca ) and the second season ( Série Meireles ) were huge audience and were published in the episode as DVDs. After differences with the transmitter on the scene cut, the poor remuneration and the transmission times of the consequences, they left the SIC, and accepted the offer of the RTP for the next two seasons ( Série Barbosa and Série Lopes da Silva ).

After four seasons, the four fundamental change in their approach. You now produced a consignment which is Gato Fedorento - Diz Que É Uma Especie de Magazine ( Just say it was a kind of magazine) called. The four sat in chairs on a stage before an audience, and talked about current issues in politics, sports and society, with Einspielern of skits. It appeared here from the previous seasons known characters on, and even language, word games and the four actors remained familiar. There were also very popular parodies of well-known politicians of all parties, particularly Prime Minister José Sócrates and opposition leader Manuela Ferreira Leite. This format was very successful and was released as a DVD.

After the responsible Program Director of the RTP ( Nuno Santos) moved to SIC, changed back in 2008, the four of Gato Fedorento to SIC. There was a fifth season ( Zé Carlos ).

In 2009, with Gato Fedorento Esmiúça os Sufrágios (German in about: Smelly cat dismembered the elections) a new format. At the parliamentary and municipal elections in September respectively in October of the year they dealt in daily 25 -minute programs with the candidates, voters and elections. Influenced by the U.S. The Daily Show, they caricatured the political establishment in interviews, parodies and exaggerated images.

Contents and reception

In all four seasons, the concept remained the same. The four main characters that were referred quickly even as Gato Fedorento in common parlance and in the media, presented in alternating those figures over top everyday situations is where they led, for example, everyday phrases ad absurdum, or media scandals or the type of celebrity reporting ridiculous attracted. In addition to the facial expressions and gestures, it was mainly the idea of ​​wealth and wit, the audience and television criticism convinced. The series was largely without foul language or abusive language, and their performers spoke good Portuguese. They renounced all too plate and superficial gags, and took no direct relation to living persons.

As a result, the four performers Gato Fedorento received a series advertising contracts (including with its own skit productions ), and they gained a great reputation in Portugal, especially the tall Ricardo Araújo Pereira, however the four occurred mostly together. The DVD releases of the series achieved high sales figures. So the box of the first season was in the Christmas season of 2004, the best-selling DVD in Portugal