Surprise (at least for the audience at home) in the final episode of Tale e Quale Show 2023 (followed live blogging on TvBlog). After many quotes from Cristiano Malgioglio: Maria de Filippi appears – at least via the speakerphone – as a result of a gag by the judge in Carlo Conti’s broadcast. His phone rings live and Malgioglio apologizes to the host, as if he had forgotten the ringtone was on. She takes the call anyway and reveals that there is no imitation of de Filippi on the other end of the line, but Maria, the real one.
Then Conti picks up the phone to check for himself. “You played a prank on me,” he says, as if he didn’t notice. He doesn’t make his voice heard right away, but waits a few seconds, just enough time to create hype. Then he puts the phone on speakerphone, holds it up to his microphone and in the distance he hears an “I swear!” It’s not a joke!” The audience roars from the studio as de Filippi continues: “Last night I had dinner with Cristiano and Antonella (Clerici, ed.).”
Judge and guest confirm and with that we can end the gag: It is the real Maria de Filippi.
“Are you watching all of us?” Conti asks “Yes! “I’m looking at you all,” Maria replies. “How are we doing? So? Do you like the program? Are we worth it?“ continues the moderator, half quoting a term from Tu si que vales, “You do that very well! I see you every Friday, eh!” She replies and receives thanks from Carlo Conti: “Everyone greets you.”
Then he goes to Malgioglio, dressed – as always – with an eccentric look, decorated with eyes everywhere: “I don’t know if Malgioglio looks at you – he jokes – because he doesn’t know which eye to look at you with.” , replies Maria and continues playing: “You have to ask Giorgio (Panariello, editor’s note), who knows that he said he had conjunctivitis.”
After the dismissal of Maria de Filippi, it can be said that the intervention, which lasted about a minute, in the program “Rai 1” is a small gift to the friend who really wanted to have her with him in the third and (so far) last program Sanremo Festival by Carlo Conti, in 2017. To make a mischievous joke: at the end of the episode Milly Carlucci could appear, by suddenly coming out of the Tale e Quale elevator or through an intervention by Emanuela Aureli…