Ricardo Araújo Pereira has a degree in Social Communication from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and began his career as a journalist at Jornal de Letras. He has been a scriptwriter since 1998. In 2003, with Miguel Góis, Zé Diogo Quintela and Tiago Dores, he formed Gato Fedorento. He writes weekly for the Portuguese magazine Visão and the Brazilian magazine Folha de S. Paulo and is one of the members of the Governo Sombra program. He is the author and presenter of Isto É Gozar Com Quem Trabalha.

He has published six books of chronicles – “Boca do Inferno”, “Novas Crónicas da Boca do Inferno” (Grand Prize for Chronicle APE 2009), “A Chama Imensa, Novíssimas Crónicas da Boca do Inferno”, “Reaccionário com Dois Cês” and “Estar Vivo Aleija” – as well as “Mixórdia de Temáticas”, which brings together the scripts he wrote for a radio program, and an essay: “A Doença, o Sofrimento e a Morte Entram num Bar” ( also published in Brazil).

The collection of chronicles “Se não entenderes eu conto de novo, pá” is also published in Brazil. He coordinates Tinta-da-china’s Humorous Literature collection, which has published books by Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, Jaroslav Hasek, Ivan Gontcharov, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, George Grossmith, José Sesinando and, more recently, Mark Twain.