Cocadaboa is a Brazilian humouristic website currently hosted in the United States for legal reasons. The site's very name is a word game that can be read either as coca da boa (good coca) or cocada boa (good coconut sweet) and the original logo was inspired on Coca-Cola's to make the meaning even more ambiguous. Cocadaboa is maintained mostly by a sysop that goes by the moniker of Mr. Manson, with the help of a team of writers.

Cocadaboa's humour is based mostly on four things:

Internet humour, related to exposing stupid things said or done by people (famous or not) which are eventually leaked in the web. They also maintain a funny list of trash links (sic) pointing to incredibly silly or amateuristic sites.

Social satire, usually by means of lengthier articles commenting on current events. One of the site's highlights is a section called Calúnia & Difamação (Libel & Defamation) in which they publish fake interviews with famous people.

Rumour spreading, the site has been unbelievably successful in spreading stupid rumours that are often taken seriously by careless journalists and published in mainstream media. Their recipe appears to be simple: mix something people see as very good (Coca-Cola, for instance) and something that people see as evil, dangerous or deadly (cancer, for instance) and then create a bogus story involving the two of them and some renowned media or scientific research institution (for instance: Johns Hopkins University has discovered that Coca-Cola causes cancer on kids). They have a gallery exposing respectable magazines and newspapers from Brazil, France and the United States that were fooled by their rumours.

Surrealistic humour, a la Monty Python in the form of blog entries or articles.

External links

http://www.cocadaboa.com