"Portugal boycotted the contest, and in 2000. As of , Portugal's voting history is as follows: Press Award Artistic Award Composer Award All conductors are Portuguese except those marked with a flag. In the late 1990s the English actor and comedian Steve Coogan created the character """"Tony Ferrino"""" for his television comedy series. """"Tony Ferrino"""" is supposedly a Portuguese singer and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest; he is a stereotype based on singers and entertainers often seen on European television programmes in the 1970s and 1980s. The BBC produced a one-off programme ""The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon"" in 1997. Portugal"
"Tiririca Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva (born 1 May 1965), best known by his stage name Tiririca, is a Brazilian actor, clown, comedian, humorist, politician and singer-songwriter. He currently represents the state of São Paulo as a representative in the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of Brazil. Tiririca first met national prominence as a singer-songwriter, when his first album ""Florentina"" (1997) topped charts. Proving to be a one-hit wonder, he abandoned his musical career after recording two more albums and started work as an actor and comedian in television; Later, again received attention in Brazilian media in 2010, during"
"Tony Tornado Antonio Viana Gomes, better known as Tony Tornado or Toni Tornado (Mirante do Paranapanema, May 26, 1930), is a Brazilian actor and singer. In 1970 he won the Brazilian stage of the V International Song Festival with the soul song ""BR-3"". Son of a Guyanese father and a Brazilian mother, at 11 years old Tony ran away from home and ended up in Rio de Janeiro where he became a street kid and made a living selling peanuts and shining shoes. At 18 he served in the Deodoro School of Parachuting along with the futurely TV presenter and"
"Maurizio Ferrini Maurizio Ferrini (born April 12, 1953) is an Italian actor and television personality. Ferrini was born in Cesena in 1953. He made his artistic debut in ""Quelli della Notte"", starring alongside Renzo Arbore and establishing himself as an eccentric comedian. During the show's airing, he was known for his trademark ""Non capisco, ma mi adeguo"" (in English, ""I can't understand, but I adapt myself""). Afterwards, Ferrini went to participate in ""Domenica in"", during the 1989-1990 edition, where he created, and played en travesti, the character of ""Mrs Emma Coriandoli"", a humoristic take on Italian housewives. During the early"
"Chacrinha José Abelardo Barbosa de Medeiros (September 30, 1917 – June 30, 1988), better known as Chacrinha (), was a Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality. His career was at its peak from 1950 to 1980. He was author of a famous Brazilian phrase that states: ""Na televisão, nada se cria, tudo se copia"" (""In television, nothing is created, everything is copied""). In his shows, now famous Brazilian celebrities were revealed, such as Roberto Carlos and Raul Seixas. He began as a radio presenter, and then enjoyed great success and inspired controversy with his anarchic sense of humor while hosting"
"of ""The Incredibles"" (2004). On February 1st 2011, Formica died in Bassano del Grappa in Veneto at age 61 of pancreatic cancer. Daniele Formica Daniele Formica (June 10, 1949 - February 1, 2011) was an Irish–Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and television presenter. He was best known for portraying comical characters in various Italian comedy films in the 1980s as well as his roles in the theatre. He also appeared in the 1980 variety comedy television show ""A tutto gag"". Born in Drogheda, County Louth, in Ireland, the son of an Irish violinist and an Italian maid, Formica"
"Daniele Formica Daniele Formica (June 10, 1949 - February 1, 2011) was an Irish–Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and television presenter. He was best known for portraying comical characters in various Italian comedy films in the 1980s as well as his roles in the theatre. He also appeared in the 1980 variety comedy television show ""A tutto gag"". Born in Drogheda, County Louth, in Ireland, the son of an Irish violinist and an Italian maid, Formica studied at Trinity College, Dublin, then made his stage debut in the early seventies in ""Rabelais"" by Jean-Louis Barrault. In 1973 he"
"Saturday Morning show""Febre de Sábado de manhã"" which was a huge success in Portugal, he also hosted shows such as ""O Passeio dos Alegres"", ""Festa é Festa e A Festa Continua"". In 1985 he hosted ""Arroz Doce"" along with Eunice Muñoz and in 1986 he hosted ""Clube dos Amigos Disney"" where he inherited the nickname Uncle Júlio. Starting in 1991 he began hosting the Festival da Canção (Portuguese heats for the Eurovision Song Contest), he continued to host the semi-finals in 1992 and 1993. In 1991 he went to work for the private TV station TVI where he hosted the"
"Henrique Mendes Henrique Mendes (January 2, 1931 – July 8, 2004) was a Portuguese television presenter and actor, he is best known for hosting several editions of Festival da Canção. Mendes joint Rádio Renascença in 1950 as a radio announcer and in 1958 he joint RTP and was invited to join as a television presenter by Artur Agostinho and he became known in Portugal for hosting Festival da Canção (Portuguese heats for the Eurovision Song Contest), which he hosted from 1964 until 1968, again in 1972 and again in 1986, in addition the latter also commentated on the Eurovision Song"
"Fred Armisen Fereydun Robert ""Fred"" Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician best known as a cast member on ""Saturday Night Live"" from 2002 until 2013. Armisen has portrayed characters in comedy films, including ""EuroTrip"", """" and ""Cop Out"". With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, Armisen is the co-creator and co-star of the IFC sketch comedy series ""Portlandia"". Armisen founded ThunderAnt.com, a website that features the comedy sketches created with Brownstein, and is the bandleader for the ""Late Night with Seth Meyers"" house band, The 8G Band. For his work on ""Portlandia"", Armisen"
"and singer Lincoln Tornado Currently, Tornado returned to performing on stages all over Brazil singing his greatest hits, accompanied by the band Funkessência and Lincoln Tornado. Tony Tornado Antonio Viana Gomes, better known as Tony Tornado or Toni Tornado (Mirante do Paranapanema, May 26, 1930), is a Brazilian actor and singer. In 1970 he won the Brazilian stage of the V International Song Festival with the soul song ""BR-3"". Son of a Guyanese father and a Brazilian mother, at 11 years old Tony ran away from home and ended up in Rio de Janeiro where he became a street kid"
"an English version of this song, called ""Bim Bom"", as well as a Spanish version, called ""Bingo"". The members were Laura Diogo, Lena Coelho (who later also became an actress), Fátima Padinha (first wife of Pedro Passos Coelho), and Teresa Miguel. Those last two were the female half of the band Gemini who represented Portugal in 1978. Doce Doce was a Portuguese female band from the 1980s. It was one of the first ""girl bands"" in Europe. The girls took part in the Portuguese national final in order to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the"
"Efraín López Neris Efraín López Neris is a Sephardi Puerto Rican actor, producer and cinematographer that has had a long trajectory in Puerto Rico's national artistic scene. Born in Caguas in April 1937, he had his start in Puerto Rican television in the 1960s by joining the cast of various comedy shows. Among his memorable television characters, ""Don Florito"" parodied great opera singers and operatic arias, a concept that predated that of Adam Sandler's Opera Man by at least fifteen years. His """"Candido"""" had López portray an extremely naive married man who placed too much confidence in his wife and"
"Ribeirinho Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September 1911 – Lisbon, 7 February 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director. He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an actor and as a manager. However, he is best known today for his comic roles in several films of the 1930s and 1940s, namely ""O Pai Tirano"" (""The Tyrant Father"", 1941) and ""O Pátio das Cantigas"" (""Songs' Yard"" or ""Courtyard of Songs"", 1942), which he also directed. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester"
"major hit, peaking at the sixth place on the Italian hit parade. Toni Santagata Toni Santagata, stage name of Antonio Morese (born 9 December 1935) is an Italian folk singer, composer, comedian and actor. He is sometimes credited as Tony Santagata or Alfonso Santagata. Born in Sant'Agata di Puglia, Foggia, Santagata debuted as a comedian at the Derby club in Milan, with the show ""Toni Santagata e il suo cabaret"", later also released as an album. In the following years he embraced folk music, both recording some classics of the Apulian tradition and composing songs. In 1973 Santagata won the"
"other grotesque and very original characters and appeared in numerous television shows. He starred in several movies, in some cases even as the leading actor. In 2008 he dubbed Cattivik in the eponymous animated series broadcast by Mediaset. He also composed and occasionally sang several songs. Giorgio Bracardi Giorgio Bracardi (born 3 May 1935) is an Italian actor, composer and stand-up comedian. Born in Rome, the older brother of the actor, pianist and composer Franco, for many years Bracardi worked around the world as a piano player (accompanying, among others, Maurice Chevalier and José Feliciano) and performing as an entertainer."
"years later he went back to TV Tupi. In 1978 he transferred to TV Bandeirantes and in 1982 he returned to Rede Globo, where his two shows became one: Cassino do Chacrinha. This show would make huge success in Saturday evenings. One of his most well known phrases would be ""In television, nothing is created, everything is copied"". In one of his shows, he would introduce himself wearing funny and sloppy clothes, honking a hand honk to declassify participants, while joking and mocking them with then famous expressions such as ""Teresinha!"", ""Eu vim aqui pra confundir, nao pra explicar!"" (""I"
"Henrique Feist Henrique Feist is a Portuguese singer, actor and director. Feist was born in Lisbon, Portugal and began his career as a pop singer in 1982 with his brother, performing on television and various radio shows. They recorded nine records, all of which hit the charts. In 1985 he created the role of Miguel in the Portuguese television soap ""Pedro e Paulina"". That same year he was awarded the Best Newcomer Award by the Portuguese National Press. For the next five years he toured Portugal with his brother and began his singing training with Maria João Serrão from the"
"and 1980 she met with a great part of the Portuguese intellectual community. In 1980, she was elected to Parliament as a member of the PPD (Partido Popular Democrático). She was a friend of António Sérgio, associated with Movimento da Filosofia Portuguesa (Movement of Portuguese Philosophy), David Mourão-Ferreira, José-Augusto França, Luiz Pacheco, Almada Negreiros, Mário Cesariny, Ary dos Santos, Amália Rodrigues, Fernando Dacosta, just to name a few. An enthusiast of the café-concert scene in Portugal, she supported her friend the cross-dresser Guida Scarllaty (the actor Carlos Ferreira). Her home was also a stage for famous writers such as Henry"
"Tony Carreira Tony Carreira (born António Manuel Mateus Antunes on December 30, 1963) is a Portuguese musician. Born in the small rural locality of Armadouro, Pampilhosa da Serra, he moved to Paris at age 10 with his emigrant parents. He lived there for 20 years. Carreira has had several hits since 1991, becoming during the 2000s one of the most renowned and best-selling popular singers in his home country. Tony Carreira sold out concerts in one of the largest venues in Portugal, the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon, and also at the Olympia in Paris. ""O Homem Que Sou"" has been"
"His cabaret show, ""Ma ‘ndo vai se il decoder non-ce l’hai"", satirized Italian television. Lando Fiorini Lando Fiorini (born Leopoldo Fiorini; 27 January 1938 – 9 December 2017) was an Italian actor and singer, known primarily for having sung folk songs from Rome in Italian and Romanesco. His career started in 1961, when he took part to the musical festival Cantagiro and was noted by the duo of playwrights Garinei & Giovannini, who chose him for the role of the cantastorie in the successful musical Rugantino. He was the founder and artistic director of a cabaret nightclub, Puff, where he"
"son of Liberato Damião Ribeiro Pinto and Maria Augusta Supico). Ribeirinho Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September 1911 – Lisbon, 7 February 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director. He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an actor and as a manager. However, he is best known today for his comic roles in several films of the 1930s and 1940s, namely ""O Pai Tirano"" (""The Tyrant Father"", 1941) and ""O Pátio das Cantigas"" (""Songs' Yard"" or ""Courtyard of Songs"", 1942), which he also directed. Son"
"Lisbon. He recorded in Madrid as pianist and arranger with singers Paulo de Carvalho and Carlos Mendes the albums ""Sheiks"" and some TV series. In the 80s he arranged and performed the show ""Ser Solidário"" with singer composer José Mário Branco and toured as pianist with the orchestra. In 1982, along with female vocalist Iei-Or, he founded the pop rock band Da Vinci as composer and producer recording 15 albums and TV shows. For some years afterwards he has also produced and composed TV jingles with RTC awards. He won the ""Festival RTP da Canção"" (RTP Song Contest) in 1989,"
"Lando Fiorini Lando Fiorini (born Leopoldo Fiorini; 27 January 1938 – 9 December 2017) was an Italian actor and singer, known primarily for having sung folk songs from Rome in Italian and Romanesco. His career started in 1961, when he took part to the musical festival Cantagiro and was noted by the duo of playwrights Garinei & Giovannini, who chose him for the role of the cantastorie in the successful musical Rugantino. He was the founder and artistic director of a cabaret nightclub, Puff, where he launched the career of several comedians, notably Lino Banfi, Enrico Montesano and Leo Gullotta."
"Fernando Larraín Fernando José Larraín de Toro (born September 21, 1962 in Santiago) is a Chilean comedian and film/television actor. He is of Basque descent. Fernando started his career with the humoristic trio ""Fresco y Natural después del postre"", along with his brother Nicolás Larraín and Felipe Izquierdo. He also recorded a CD with his musical group called Varella. As a comedian in the 1990s, Fernando appeared in various TV shows as ""Bodybuilder"" and ""CorazonesService"" with Felipe Izquierdo. In 1998-2002, he hosted the show ""Chile Tuday"" (MEGA). Fernando also appeared in some films and comedy shows like ""La Nany"" (2005–2006)"
"Tony Renis Tony Renis (born May 13, 1938), stage name of Elio Cesari, is an Italian singer, composer, songwriter, music producer and film actor. Born in Milan, he debuted in the mid-1950s, paired with Adriano Celentano, performing an impression of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In 1958, he signed to the label ""Combo Record"" as a singer and started releasing covers of Italian and American songs. In 1961, Renis debuted at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song ""Pozzanghere"". In 1962, Renis gained international success with the song ""Quando, quando, quando"", written with Alberto Testa and performed at the Sanremo"
"Tony Renis Tony Renis (born May 13, 1938), stage name of Elio Cesari, is an Italian singer, composer, songwriter, music producer and film actor. Born in Milan, he debuted in the mid-1950s, paired with Adriano Celentano, performing an impression of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In 1958, he signed to the label ""Combo Record"" as a singer and started releasing covers of Italian and American songs. In 1961, Renis debuted at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song ""Pozzanghere"". In 1962, Renis gained international success with the song ""Quando, quando, quando"", written with Alberto Testa and performed at the Sanremo"
"of his victory. Aged 46 years, 302 days, Cutugno became the oldest winner of the contest to date, surpassing the record set by Andre Claveau in 1958. Cutugno's record stood until 2000. Toto Cutugno Salvatore ""Toto"" Cutugno (; born 7 July 1943) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He may be best known for his worldwide hit song, ""L'Italiano"", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song """", for which he wrote both lyrics and music. Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo to a Sicilian father from"
"Will Ferrell John William Ferrell (; born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and a part-owner of Los Angeles FC. He first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show ""Saturday Night Live"", and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as """" (2004), """" (2006), ""Step Brothers"" (2008), ""The Other Guys"" (2010) and """" (2013), all but one of which he co-wrote with his comedy partner Adam McKay. The two also founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007. Other film roles include ""Elf"", ""Old School"" (both"
"The Legendary Tigerman Paulo Furtado, known by his stage name The Legendary Tigerman (born 9th September 1970), is a Portuguese musician. As the Legendary Tigerman, he started playing blues music in a one-man band style, accompanying his singing with guitar, harmonica and drums alone on stage. The band is now a 4 piece, fat drums by Sega, big horns by Cabrita and low bass by Pisco, and of course Paulo ""Tigerman"" Furtado on vocals and guitar. Furtado is also the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band WrayGunn and formerly played in the rockabilly group Tédio Boys. Furtado"
"Fernando Tordo Fernando Travassos Tordo (born March 29, 1948, in Lisbon, Portugal) is a singer and composer. In 1969, he made his singing debut on Portuguese television, while competing to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). He would try again for the next three years until he finally won in 1973, with his song ""Tourada"", a political protest song. He competed in the ESC that year in Luxembourg, where he finished in 10th place. Then, in 1977, he competed in the ESC in London, this time, as part of the group, Os Amigos, singing the song, ""Portugal"
"Pedro Penim, Philipe Leroux, Raquel Dias, Sylvie Rocha, Victor d’Andrade, Joana Fartaria, Paulo Oom, Paulo Pires, Joaquim Monchique, João Lagarto, Sofia Aparício, Catarina Furtado, Sofia de Portugal, Patrícia Bull, Sílvia Balancho, Maria Emília Correia, João Pedro Vaz, Margarida Marinho, Ana Nave, António Cordeiro, Luís Alberto, Rui Mendes, Sara Belo, Leonor Seixas, São José Correia, Marco Delgado, Jorge Corrula, Pedro Granger, Afonso Pimentel. Among the singers are: Ana Ester Neves, Helena Afonso, Helena Vieira, Jorge Vaz de Carvalho, Carlos Guilherme, Mário Redondo, Ana Paula Russo, Mário João Alves, Luís Rodrigues, Marco Alves dos Santos, Carla Simões, José Corvelo, Marina Ferreira, Dora"
"Chico Anysio Chico Anysio (born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho, 12 April 1931 – 23 March 2012) was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Anysio was born in Maranguape, Ceará. He moved with the family on Rio de Janeiro when he was 7 years old, and tried to work on ""Rádio Guanabara"". Since 1968 was joined to Rede Globo, which achieved the status of a star cast that boasted the most famous artists of Brazil. Anysio was one of the most famous Brazilian comedians of all times and is considered the greatest Brazilian comedian ever. He died on"