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Brazil bans the joke
18th August - Dubbed the 'anti joking law' Brazil's comedians are not allowed to poke fun at candidates ahead of the nation's presidential election in October...
The law is a relic of Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship prohibits ridiculing candidates in the three months before elections.
The law holds that TV and radio programmes cannot "use trickery, montages or other features of audio or video in any way to degrade or ridicule a candidate, party or coalition". Making fun of candidates on air ahead of elections is punishable by fines up to £72,000 and a broadcast licence suspension.
Because the internet is not licensed by the government, it is not covered under the law.
I would certainly like to be a fly on the wall as expert witnesses are brought into the court room to give evidence on exactly what is comedy - ascene redolent of Monty Python perhaps
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