Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rafi Bastos explains how standup finally matched his journalist brain, what it was like doing jokes for people who did not even know what standup was, and why his first regular stage in Brazil ended up being a BDSM bar instead of a comedy club. From wanting the freedom to touch any topic to going viral before YouTube, he shows how you build an art form when there is no scene and no blueprint.

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