 Another new element to Brazilian audiences was the performers, (well-known soap opera actors like Debora Bloch, Claudia Raia, Marco Nanini and Ney Latorraca with a few others) who weren't the usual comedic actors, but dramatic actors doing more comedic roles (although some of them went on to perform in more comedies later in their careers).Despite the slow beginning (and almost cancellation), the idea of a fresh new comedy style began to settle among Brazilian audiences who grew to embrace the program and its writers, who at the time were still writing the comedy magazine "Casseta Popular" and the newspaper-like "Planeta Diário" (the latter a nod to The Daily Planet).While the sketch comedy style was not new to the audiences, it was done in a manner to be considered ground breaking for the time and place while defying the old comedies styles on Brazilian TV from the late 1960s to the early 1980s; therefore turning the show into a cultural phenomenon.