Rovazzi seduces (and leaves) the mother of sensuality at court: rating 7
Sensuality a Corte proves to be the crown jewel of the Gialappa Show. We’ve written before that Marcello Cesena and company’s sketch will make you laugh forever. We confirm it. Every Monday evening the bar of absurdity rises higher and higher until it reaches at least the constellation Orion. This is thanks to the terrible relationship between Jean Claude and Mother, which explodes from scene to scene and produces wonderful fratricidal creative insults. In addition, the special guests give the series new life: seven days ago it was Fedez’s turn with his “porn look”. Now it is the turn of Fabio Rovazzi, who appears unexpectedly from the semi-darkness, in the role of a psychologist who is supposed to treat the mother who is so convinced that she is ovulating that “she runs the risk of suggesting herself and actually to get pregnant,” even though she doesn’t dude. Unfortunately, a burning passion arises (again) between the two (they had already met “when they were seven years old and drank gin, vodka and whiskey together at dawn”). Their conversations are constantly censored because they’re too dirty, until Rovazzi once again unexpectedly breaks up with the queen of cliched excuses: He really needs to get cigarettes. He’ll never come back. Patience. We can’t wait for a new episode to air to find out who Madre’s next VIP lover will be. The sensuality at court would be worth binge-watching. This weekly publication is almost torture.
Annalisa, the most anticipated horror parody (better Paolantoni?): Rating 3
Black panties and fishnet stockings, Annalisa’s parody finally arrives on the GialappaShow. To remember how and how much it is always good to pay attention to what you desire. Because it could happen. And bad things could happen. Brenda Lodigiani, the already popular Ester Ascione, imitates the singer by performing in the show’s historic parking lot. The new character appears with his hands in his hair and it only takes a few seconds to understand why: he almost manages to make us regret the imitation done by Francesco Paolantoni of the current Queen of Pop in the Tale e Quale show did, a few unfortunate weeks ago. The sketch aims for chaos: Lodigiani-Annalisa says: “Uh! Ah!” He says “French things” in a loop; he clings to the cleaning women during the alleged choreography he is staging, which is sometimes reminiscent of the little girl’s movements in “The Exorcist.” On Twitter (sorry, X! ) there is jubilation, because today nothing of Annalisa is thrown away, she is the most popular artist of the moment. Although this parody captures the main features, it bypasses the garbage and plunges unhappily towards horror. The happiness lasts very briefly. Just like a nightmare. What but remains remembered.
Sabrina Salerno tames Forest (and has 500 pairs of jeans): Vote 8
“What nonsense!”, Sabrina Salerno is the first co-host to dispute Forest’s jokes on the GialappaShow. He does it with compassion, of course, but generally the star of the show is only mocked by Gherarducci and Santin, never by the girls who work alongside him, who on average are too busy laughing out loud like (or maybe even more than) the viewers. It’s not easy to steal from the thief’s house. Sabrina Salerno does it and that’s why we appreciate her iron fist. In terms of temperament, Iron Lady remains physically an inexplicable cyborg, unmoved by the passage of time. Also inexplicable is the fact that he owns “500 pairs of jeans,” as it turns out in the episode. “Don’t you know you can wash them?” Forest asks her. And in fact, we have the idea that we’ll be asking ourselves that question for quite some time. Salerno “psychologist” who wants to interpret the dreams of the “Eskimo squatter” of Forest, Salerno singer of “Boys, Boys, Boys” with Neri per Caso, Salerno is here. Also the portrait aging in its place in the attic.
Valentina Barbieri is a very hasty Ilary Blasi: rating 5.5
In the last edition, her Francesca Fagnani in “Berve” was not convincing. This time, Valentina Barbieri, a copycat with millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok, is trying it again with Ilary Blasi, one of the characters who do best on social media. Unfortunately, the transition from the very small to the small screen seems to be quite expensive here too. If Burina’s voice and cadence match the original, perhaps it’s the role that doesn’t allow her to fly as she could. His contacts from home, as a commentator in pajamas and non-slip socks, are really too short to have any impact. The main characteristics of the presenter of L’Isola dei Famosi are all present: wildness, harsh nature, gross slips and even her daughter Chanel, who, like Lieutenant Colombo’s wife, is always mentioned and never shown on video. Lots of potential, still very little yield. Will he improve with Madame?
I Neri per Caso must attend the next Sanremo: rating 9.5
“What I see on social media are all fake lists,” explained Fiorello about the rumors circulating online about the shortlist of singers who will compete at the next Sanremo festival. During this third episode of the GialappaShow, we received confirmation that “Ciuri” was not bluffing: in fact, Blacks by Chance are never mentioned in the various lists. Therefore they cannot be justified. We wrote it in the last issue, that’s true, but it’s a concept that bears repeating: the vocal group deserves to return to the Ariston stage, if only “for the way” they manage to do it, to animate every episode of the Gialappi show on Tv8. In the third part we saw her singing first with Sabrina Salerno and then with Raiz. Every time they attempt a cover, Twitter (sorry, X!) loudly demands that it be released on Spotify the next day. There is no competition: The Blacks by Chance are several levels ahead of everyone else. Comedy cast included. Oops.
Gigi and Ross, the bland parody of Mare Fuori: Rating 6-
After Annalisa, Mare Fuori also disappoints. The perpetrators of the catastrophe are Gigi and Ross, who return to the court of Gialappa’s band quite unfocused. Maybe it’s because, despite its huge audience success, the original series itself seems like an unintentionally funny pantomime. Or that Fiorello and Fabrizio Biggio already had a hand in “VivaRai2!” The fact is that the performance of the two Neapolitan comedians at the premiere was not convincing, despite the participation of Raiz, singer of Almamegretta and member of the cast of Mare Fuori. It’s not entertaining and once again it lasts so short that you barely notice it’s (was) there. Gigi and Ross fare much better with Tiziano Ferro, who becomes too emotional to sing without a cue (even on Ambra’s “T’Appartengo”) and Salt Bae, the bizarre chef-butcher-gastronomic entertainer with a large following in the social media. Perhaps the real problem is that between the tragicomic fiction in the air and the impossible characters that actually exist, the reality has now surpassed any possible parody.
Ubaldo Pantani is an insinna defiler of Chinese graves: rating 8.5
The 4 Funerali format, in which Rai-cleaned Flavio Insinna (Ubaldo Pantani) wants to show us the “funniest” last farewells in Italy, is gaining momentum. Things get going in this third episode of the GialappaShow, thanks to a joke that is by far the best of the evening. Insinna-Pantani crashes at a Chinese funeral and the deceased’s son really doesn’t want him around. Unfortunately he can’t get rid of it because he doesn’t speak Italian. In addition, the presenter is convinced that the two get along very well because “we both speak the language of the heart,” he winks into the camera. Naturally? In order to “dispel the usual urban legends about the Chinese,” Insinna-Pantani attacks the coffin with a crowbar: he wants to show that the Asian who was so dearly extinct is really extinct. At this point, a security guard intervenes to arrest him. And here, exactly from this character, comes the wildest line in the whole series: “When I saw Flavio Insinna desecrate a coffin, I thought it was a bad Rai 1 series.” Yes, it’s so funny, precisely because of that …it could be.