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Jô Soares (1938- )

Jô was nothing less than the leading TV talk show host in Brazil. He held forth in a good-sized studio with an audience of several thousand. It was a nighttime show, like its American counterparts.

It came on at eleven, thus it was called “Onze Horas.”

Jô was shortish and quite rotund.

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Like Johnny Carson (I once called him “the Johnny Carson of Brazil,” he was quite puffed). That was the first time he called me out of the audience to join him on stage. His spies had spotted me.

The first question he asked me was, “How much is your salary?” I knew that was a trap for a gringo professor, so I replied “Less than yours.” That slowed him down and he decided I was up for repartee.

He was incredibly witty and we had a good chat.

He had been educated in Switzerland and so was impressively multilingual. I was quick-witted enough to ask his producer to give me a tape of the interview. I took it back to the States should any of my posterity wish to exhibit it.

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