Porta dos Fundos (literally meaning Backdoor) is a Brazilian comedy troupe founded in 2012, helmed by Fábio Porchat, Antonio Pedro Tabet, Gregório Duvivier, Ian SBF and João Vicente de Castro. Their YouTube channel is currently the biggest in Brazil. They are known for their surrealistic, sometimes borderline fantastic realism, black comedy. They are often compared to Monty Python.
In October 2021, they released Futuro Ex-Porta, a reality show in which ten actors compete to be selected for the troupe's cast.
Provides examples of:
- Adam Westing: Zigzagged and played with. Sometimes the actors play their non-acting persona, sometimes not.
- Played for laughs when, in a sketch, Rafael Infante plays Fábio Porchat´s persona as his creative conscience manager, inside Porchat´'s mind.
- Bad Future: In a sketch, all social venues are replaced by evangelical churches. So are all TV channels.
- Black Comedy: Some sketches border on heartbreaking territory.
- Biting-the-Hand Humour: Somewhat. Some of their sketches are paid or even scheduled by sponsoring brands, which somehow does not protect them from being used in such bawdy jokes that some companies would sue someone for being cast into such a thing. The funniest part is that they want that.
- Comically Missing the Point "KKKKKK" has two white men trying to start a KKK chapter, but one of them doesn't know what exactly is it supposed to do; when he gathers members, they're all black people who also don't know what a KKK chapter is supposed to do, and that's the situation thatso the leader has to handle somehow.
- From Bad to Worse: "Barata no Banheiro"(Cockroach in the Bathroom) tells the story of a girl who asks her husband to kill a cockroach in the bathroom. He goes in to find a strange man in the bathroom; they call the building handyman, and when he goes in the bathroom, he comes back telling it became a hostage situation with a woman and her baby in the bathroom. They then call the police, only to discover that the baby turns out to be a zombie. A zombie killer is then called; he warns that a chemical reaction between the zombie baby's blood and the shampoo opened a portal summoning demons and vampires. Next to be called is a priest, who bumps his leg in the toilet and decides to come back out, so they order a pizza, and, to avoid paying, they send the pizza delivery guy into the bathroom; he comes back out saying that Hitler is back. The cockroach still doesn't get killed.
- Jesus Was Way Cool: Many sketches involve Jesus or God, either in Biblical times or in the modern day, living through the same nonsense and bawdy things as other characters do.
- Loony Fan: In one sketch, a fan coerces his rock idol to lend him some money because of all the cash he invested in attending his band's shows, and cites how John Lennon died to make his point.
- The Lost Lenore: The sketch Carla...
- Magic Realism: The plot of some, if not most, sketches happens in universes that range from having specific police inspections for cannabis and crack, to restaurants that serve dicks as the only course, to women being visited by their self-esteem fairy.
- Recurring Character: Antônio Tabet, aka Kibe has repeatedly played police captain Peçanha.
- Serial Escalation: This is how many jokes play out.
- "Barata no Banheiro"(Cockroach in the Bathroom) escalates from a single cockroach in a bathroom to the apocalypse happening.
- "Vendedora" (Saleswoman) has a woman buying a belt, but the saleswoman quickly convinces her to buy a dress, then shoes, then a new car, then a new house, then a whole new family.
- Special Guest: One of their sketches had Brazil-loving French actor Vincent Cassel starring as James Bond... who gets unceremoniously tased by two cops after arguing for several minutes with them right as he was arresting a supervillain.
- Terrorist Without A Cause: Played with. In one sketch, a Muslim terrorist who is believed to have orchestrated an attack in New York City returns from there full of merchandise, having used his alloted funds to have fun instead.
- Upper-Class Twit One sketch involves a guy, who is clearly a mama´s boy who never worked in his life, applying for a job. He cites as his previous experiences being Social Media Manager of his own Facebook and Instagram accounts, and at a fast food chain as regular client. And doing grocery for his mom with assistance from two house servants. His position in this latter job entailed driving the car and opening the trunk so that someone else would put the goods in it.
