About
Como você é burro (means something like “How you’re stupid”) is a part of a quote said by brazilian singer Caetano Veloso during an interview on a TV show, answering the question of the journalist Geraldo Mayrink.
Answering to what the journalist had asked, Caetano Veloso introduced (translated to english): "no, you’re stupid, man, this is crazy. .. how you’re dumb .. this is absurd .. You’re saying stupid things.. stupid things.. I cannot remember anything you just said because you speak in a dumb way. ".
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso, better known as Caetano Veloso, is a musician, producer, arranger and Brazilian writer.
The video (not the whole interview, only the part that “generated” the meme):
Origin
It all started on a Brazilian television show called “Vox Populi”. Caetano Veloso was there answering several questions. In one of the questions, a reporter asked a question about the military regime in Brazil and Caetano replied repeating several times “you’re stupid.” The interview was first displayed in 1978.
Spread
Despite being a fairly old interview (dated 1978), the interview became popular on the internet recently, after the station who had displayed this interview reprise the interview as a celebration of 40 years of broadcasting. A user posted a video in 2012 that had the whole answer given by the singer to the question of the journalist Geraldo Mayrink. Therefore the date of the video name of the video was “Caetano Veloso Puto 5 – Detonando Geraldo”. A fraction of the full interview, which had been posted on Youtube previously. Soon, the video started getting known and is now a meme widely used by Brazilians.