Hermes & Renato, known as Banana Mecânica from 2010 to 2013 due to trademark issues with MTV Brasil, is a Brazilian comedy troupe formed in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro in 1999 (and based in São Paulo as of 2002) by childhood friends Marco Antônio Alves, Fausto Fanti, Adriano Silva (also occasionally credited as Adriano Pereira, who is also the troupe's only member not to be a Petrópolis native as he was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro), Felipe Torres and Bruno Sutter (later joined by Gil Brother from 2002 to 2008, and by Franco Fanti, Fausto's brother, from 2015 onwards), whose name was taken from the first characters they ever created for their sketches: Hermes (played by Alves) and Renato (played by Fausto).

[1] Other characters popularized by them include Luís Boça (Torres) – a geeky, naïve 32-year-old kidult who lives with his grandmother Lourdes (Alves) and speaks in a thick paulistano accent[2] – and Joselito Sem-Noção (Silva) – an inconvenient trickster whose pranks always cause harm to those around him.

[2][3] Heavily influenced by comedians such as Os Trapalhões, Chespirito, Monty Python and Costinha alongside old pornochanchada films and the 1988–90 television comedy show TV Pirata,[4][5] and known for their edgy, risqué off-color humor frequently reliant on pop culture references, word plays, puns, catchphrases, profanity and double entendres, they acquired a massive cult following throughout the late 1990s/early to mid-2000s which lasts to the present day, and had their own television programs broadcast at different times by MTV Brasil (1999–2010, 2013), Record (2010–2013, as a segment of variety show Legendários) and FX (2015–2016); from 2004 to 2005 they also had an eponymous radio program, broadcast by São Paulo-based station Mix FM.

[11] Their MTV series was also responsible for launching the career of future YouTuber Gil Brother, who was part of Hermes & Renato from 2002 until his departure in 2008 due to creative divergences and contractual issues.

[25][26][27] In 2020, Felipe Torres joined fellow humorists Paulinho Serra (formerly from Comédia MTV and Pânico na TV), Raul Chequer and Leandro Ramos (both from YouTube and television series Choque de Cultura) to star in the comedy film Abestalhados 2, directed by Marcos Jorge (who previously directed Estômago in 2007) and Marcelo Botta; originally scheduled to be released in early 2021,[28] it eventually came out on October 27, 2022, to positive reviews.