Ah, but were they good jokes?
Léo Lins was found guilty of inciting intolerance with a 2022 stand-up routine that made fun of black people, indigenous people, fat people, gay people, Jews, evangelicals, disabled people and those with HIV.
During the performance, which was uploaded to YouTube and has more than three million views, Lins told a 4,000-strong crowd in Curitiba, in southern Brazil: “Prejudice, to me, is a primitive thing that shouldn’t exist any more. Just like indigenous people. Enough already.”
Wearing a bright red shirt and yellow trousers, he warned the audience that he “jokes about everything and everyone”.
He told them: “What show could be more inclusive? I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the deaf-mute.”
Anyone got a translation?