LIBERDADE DE EXPRESSÃO E PROGRAMAS HUMORÍSTICOS / FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND HUMOR PROGRAMS

The Constitution enshrines the free expression of thought, which is the expression free from any type of seal, guaranteeing freedom of thought and opinion. Freedom of expression denotes that the individual do not need to worry about the evaluative content of his thought or opinion. This study aims to investigate the subjective censorship of political correctness in the free expression of comedy shows. Based on the decision of the study case that granted the right of the comedian Rafinha Bastos to reproduce his show The art of the insult was bounded on the literature in legislation, case law, doctrine and newspaper articles on the subject with specific analysis of the case Charlie Hebdo. The main findings were that humor tends to be censored when the subject of the jokes are the sensitive minorities, due to the recent wave of political correctness that came up with the financial rise of black Americans and gay people from the 60’s, which, when moving on to attend restaurants or places that were privileges of high society, caused some social unrest. Upon investigation, it appears that the differences between people from different regions of the world is what makes the culturally rich society and should not be ignored but exalted, and as it limits freedom of expression, creativity is over, thoughts and expressions are muzzled and the cultural content of the information society is mitigated