How does an Azorean chooses the profession of comedian ?
LFB : I did not choose, my dream was to live of the writing , collaborated with newspapers too, when I finished my course I was lucky to get a job in a small television production company , made several programs for RTP2 and then I had an invitation to work for " fictional productions". At age 25 I had to format to that record because the "core business" of the company was the comedy and began to write it for several years . Then it was through writing that the opportunity arose to host a program called "the revolt of cream tarts" but all were happy accidents . I ended becoming comedian, because it was the mood in terms of writing I opened a door and helped me gain the courage to present myself in front of a public, but it was not my plan, my goal was to live from writing .
It was something unnatural ? Usually we associate the islanders to an introspective nature, closed. So how was your first time when you faced the stage and an audience?
LFB : It is a tremendous adrenaline and a feeling that recurs whenever we have an audience in front of us. I consider myself a shy person and the islanders contrary to what many think are unusually festive continental people, but it is not my case. I guess is that the stage is a kind of good drug, ie , the adrenaline that you receive by being in front of an audience makes us somewhat powerful way for that little bit that we are there, we are on the ropes, our challenge is not fall and if we don't people will admire us for it. Incidentally , there is a very old joke of Woody Allen that is as follows : the real part concerns a study about our greatest fears and curiously death came in second place, beaten by the fear of public speaking, the part of the joke is that in a funeral would rather be the person who is in the coffin than the one who does the eulogy. This is to say that human beings are afraid of being at a subconscious level in front of an audience because you feel a bit naked, have everyone looking at you, you're afraid of messing up and further refolded or triplicate by doing s.... this means that the public are predisposed to love someone who is alone on stage, because they know that this person is doing something very difficult for the vast majority. Therefore , the audience sets the thread where we walked in and is there to admire us, but if we can finish the walk there is a standing ovation at the end.
Knowing that you are azorean people don't try to imitate the accent of São Miguel and in the end they mimic the Maderian?
LFB : I think it's the contrary, each time a continental, yesterday we joked with it here, tries to imitate a Madeiran accent always comes out of San Miguel, which they think is Azorean , but it is not true, because that is only in that island, is the largest of the nine lives and where 60 % of the population .
That's why you have created a video on " youtube " to demystify these prejudices associated with the Azores ?
LFB : This already has so many years, exactly , was even so . There is also another funny thing that should happen to Madeiran, when we are out and it is: you are from the Azores then you know Jose? I know at least 37Zés .
Have you ever had a blank that you remember on stage ?
LFB : No, never. If it happens to me to get lost at some point, what I like to do is improvise, so when I lose myself I improvise anything with the public to get a reaction and be able to interact with them on this subject. Never had a blank note that it shows, like f ... Now What?
There are different audiences , even on a national tour ?
LFB : It is visible, particularly in the north, where there is an extremely generous audience. We know that we can be completely at ease in terms of language, even the sexual themes, even when the audience are entire families, from grandparents to grandchildren. There are other more conservative places where they enjoy less swearing, not even care so much about the kind of language, but did not appreciate the sexual themes, but this is something funny that comes with experience. Raminhos is for me is the best portuguese stand up comedian, nowadays I have to say that he has six hours of material easily and is very rare to get a comedian act alone for an hour. This means with the experience that we can decide on stage, within the material we have, in the first moments by measuring the pulse to the public, and to choose paths that will be more enjoyable for them or not.
Apart from comedy ever thought what you wanna do when you grow up ?
LFB : I already do many things besides comedy . So I started living from writing and never stopped. Besides I wrote many things , I was writer for many years the "Tell me about it ," I wrote for theater, have five books published in my own name. I'll continue living from the writing for sure and want to be when I grow novelist who is the only genre that I lack the courage enough to try .
And now you start writing your first novel ?
LFB : I've made an attempt that stopped in the eighth chapter . I lost my breath , I realized that the story was too short, but my professional goals when I reach 40, currently I still have 4 years to go, is to write and perform my first short film and publish my first novel.
To be a writer you need to live up first?
LFB : Without a doubt . But, without exaggeration.
You mentioned that you have publish books extremely young.
LFB : Yes, the first book that I had published was 26 years old. I publish a book of poetry , two chronic and one of tales .
And looking back , do you think you lacked maturity in this writing?
LFB : No, in the book of poetry published at age 26 many of these poems were written with 18.19 years old now and I look at them and are deeply naive things, but I think made perfect sense, is not the type of error that regret is a mistake in italic. There are times in life to everything, and so when I look at this book and remember the age I was at that time, I think, okay, that makes sense, so I am not ashamed whatsoever. To write a novel I think you need another maturity, another experience . It's like fado when I was a kid did not care about, the older I get, the more I liked it, the more I appreciate it. It is also like wine, when you drink for first it felt horrible and then we learn to like it and at some point over the years managed to distinguish fairly well castes . Now, when I say that I agree that we must live in order to write , I think one should live without being obsessive, an example that can be applied to the actors, which is a profession that I greatly admire, I am sure that Al Pacino to do the "Scarface " not stuck 6 kilos of cocaine up his nose , we have to live without being obsessive about it . I can write about a protagonist who will go to see prostitutes not having gone there.
