Joe Soares always faced difficult times with humor, says his biographer
Journalist Matinas Suzuki Junior, the author of two volumes of the biography of Jo Soares “O Livro de Jô”, announced this Friday (5). CNN:that humor and the actor always coped with the difficult moments of life with a lot of humor.
The biographer cites examples such as the treatment of his son Rafael Soares, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a child and who died of a brain tumor at the age of 50 in 2014. And even episodes during the Military Dictatorship.
“[Ele reagia] always with humor. The boy Rafa used to joke and laugh a lot. And also from the difficult moments, from the military dictatorship, some felt a little, but it never turned into bitterness, resentment. Joe had only one thing in mind: to share the bread of joy,” Matinas said.
“Everything he ended up taking was on the side of humor, on the side of joy, and he even has a phrase that is the epigraph to this first volume that he loved, by the English actor Edmund Gwenn, who said: “Dying is easy, humor is hard.” He said that sentence on his deathbed. And Joe, who is now in the hospital for the last few days, repeated this phrase again. “Living is not problematic, it’s difficult to make humor,” he continued.
Joe died this morning at the age of 84. He had been hospitalized at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo since the end of last month.
“Patient Joe Soares died today, August 5, at 2:20 a.m. in Syrio-Libanes. in Sao Paulo. He was hospitalized in the hospital since July 28, where he was accompanied by groups of clinical staff of the institution.
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Joe Soares in a portrait taken on September 16, 1971. That year, Joe made his first appearance on TV Globo, after appearing on Record, in the comedy program “Faça Humor, Não Faça Guerra”.
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Joe Soares in a portrait taken on August 31, 1972. At that time, the comedian participated in the TV Globo program “Faça Humor, Não Faça Guerra”, which aired every week after the series at eight o’clock. The name was a play on the popular hippie message “Love, don’t fight” that was being used a lot at the time because of the Vietnam War.
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Comedians Joe Soares and Chico Anisio during an interview in Sao Paulo, May 5, 1985.
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Host Jo Soares (left) next to João Lara Mesquita during the recording of his program at the Rádio Eldorado studio in downtown São Paulo on September 21, 1988.
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In 1987, Joe Soares’ contract with TV Globo ends, and the comedian decides not to renew it. The following year, he moved to SBT, where he first presented his talk show, Jô Soares Onze e Meia. In a photo taken on November 15, 1990, he was interviewing Zelia Cardoso, Minister of Finance and Plano Color’s intellectual mentor.
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the candidate for the President of the Republic at the time, during the recording of the program “Jô Soares Onze e Meia”, at SBT, São Paulo, on August 22, 1994.
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Jô Soares during the recording of “Jô Soares, Onze e Meia”, March 15, 1997. The talk show aired on SBT from August 1988 to December 1999. In total, 6,927 interviews were conducted, including highlights such as the final interview. the singer Raúl Seixas on open television or the exposure of the group Mamonas Assassinas in 1995, in addition to interviews with the protagonists of the impeachment of President Fernando Collor.
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Host Joe Soares at a press conference on April 3, 2000 about the new program he would have on Rede Globo. That year, the comedian and writer returned to the network, but did not abandon the talk show format. He made his debut with the talk show Programa do Jô, which would become a landmark in Brazilian television.
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The first “Programa do Jô” presented by Jo Soares in April 2000 at the Rede Globo studio in São Paulo. Four members of the sextet accompanying the host in the background: (L/R) Tomati, Chico Oliveira, Derico. and Bira.
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Host Joe Soares interviews then Central Bank President Arminio Fraga on June 21, 2002.
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Comedian, actor, writer and TV presenter Joe Soares poses for a photo on April 28, 2005 after an interview about the launch of his book Assassinato na Academia Brasileira de Letras. As a writer, Jo created screenplays, books and plays. Among his most famous books are the 1995 novel O Xangô de Baker Street and the 1998 comedy O Homem que Matou Getúlio Vargas.
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Jo Soares in an interview with then Corinthians player Ronaldo on Programa do Jô, November 10, 2009.
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Film director Francis Ford Coppola during an interview on the Jô Soares program on December 1, 2010.
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Portrait of host Jo Soares during an interview with the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on November 13, 2013, where he talked about the 25 years of his interview program, split between SBT and TV Globo.
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Jo Soares at his apartment in Sao Paulo on November 22, 2017. “Programa do Jô” aired on TV Globo between April 2000 and December 2016. In total, 14,426 interviews were conducted, including such important names as singer Shakira, director Francis. Ford Coppola and Elvis Presley’s widow, Priscilla Presley. In the last episode, cartoonist Ziraldo had an interlocutor.
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A portrait of Jo Soares during an interview about his new book ‘O Livro de Jô’ at his apartment in Higuenopolis, central Sao Paulo on November 22, 2017.
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