Piero Chiambretti slap for Aldo Grasso quotThe harder the betterquot

Piero Chiambretti, slap for Aldo Grasso: "The harder the better"

With the TV from 100 and one Piero Chiambretti has chosen to focus on the little ones and the future. A completely changed world, in which even satire no longer has the power of the past, but in which the Pierino TV channel is pinning its hopes on children, so much so that it has made them the protagonists of its new show on Canale 5. An experiment in three primes time Wednesday evenings. The first, which aired last week, won the viewers’ battle to great acclaim. “It’s a complex project that I think could be sold abroad.” Tomorrow the show will be back on stage with special guests such as Ezio Greggio, Enzo Iacchetti, Belen Rodriguez and Vittorio Sgarbi called in to answer the children’s questions without filters.

The first question is a must. What kind of satire are you doing with Meloni and the right wing in government?
“It looks the same as before, it hasn’t changed. The satirists are always the same. The goals haven’t changed much. Perhaps some reactions to some cartoons with the new Secretary of the Democratic Party have sparked debate, but beyond that I believe the satire is fairly consistent and continues its small and discreet struggle that no longer has the value it had in the first Republic had, as a caricature of Forattini, with Spadolini’s belly and pea or Craxis’ boots, might overthrow the government. Politics has changed and with it satire in its most universal concept».

Critic Aldo Grasso defined his show as “a poor children’s program for a presenter who never grew up”. Would you like to reply?
“The critic defines himself precisely by becoming a critic. The harder the better. What could be better than embracing a program, a character, your honorable thirty-year job with satisfaction? It is right that he does this and since he has also done it in the past, I invite him to insist on the second and third installments as well ».

Many former child prodigies long for their childhood and youth. Angelo Branduardi on Libero stated that he started playing the violin at the age of 5. A good thing, but also a bad thing because it sacrifices a part of life that will never come back. What do you think?
“First of all, I would delete the word child prodigy. Ours is not a race. They are not circus phenomena presented as absolutes, only told as gifted children. I didn’t want to make a competition with palettes and teachers, which would have been easier, but a game where the children are part of a cast that we chose to show them as professionals on TV in a playful moment».

She revealed her daughter is among the 100 children of La Tv’s 100 and one. Does Margherita have a role model or is she following someone among the new legends of the youngest?
“My daughter is between 100 and one and the search for who belongs to the 100 has started because I didn’t name them. She is a little girl who gave me many ideas. Through her questions, her curiosity, I tried to construct a series of dialectic and visual situations that might interest her and girls like her. I don’t know his myths, apart from quite a large number of singers, especially rappers, who refer to a generation x, zor 2.0. Some of them, like Sfera, use profanity as breakout language. That’s a problem, because to a very small extent we’re also a bit of an educator.”

But Sfera came…
“He came, but said no bad words. All broadcast pieces of music were sweetened. Also to avoid further controversy. I just used common sense and good taste, which are rarely used on television. With these two elements, you can do well anywhere, including on television».

Can the innocence of your 100 children be viewed as a reaction to the vulgarity of reality shows that even Piersilvio Berlusconi lamented?
“I tried to do a program in my comfort zone. I was never vulgar or trashy. Even when they called me trash, it was just customs clearance of some clichés that became entertainment. After all, TV can’t be too different from reality. Mine wasn’t an answer, but perhaps a question to which I also had the answer. You can make a slightly different TV with pleasing results from every point of view. I can say with certainty that the publisher has praised the product».

From the guardian angel and plunderer of Sanremo. How did Chiara Ferragni and Fedez view the festival?
“They did what they had to do. Making noise, uproar, rivers of words, like the song that won the 1997 festival I did with Mike and Marini. It was an intelligent TV marketing campaign by the Amadeus Group, which addressed a wide variety of target groups at its festivals. The odd thing is that TV audiences are crying out for news, but when the news comes, they get scared because they don’t recognize it. They want to be reassured by news that isn’t news.”

From Markette’s time 15 years ago, she clarified sexual fluidity on television with Maga Maghella and other characters. How would you explain it to your 100 kids in prime time today?
“There is little to explain. They’re already talking to each other about fluidity, I could hear them. Children, bombarded with information on their phones and computers, are only partially informed about everything. What we think they don’t know, they actually already know in their own way. Not much to explain, if anything, wait for the question to be interrupted with an answer. The explanation is superfluous because they have arrived before us to understand the changes in trends, customs and also the exaggerated obsession with political correctness».

As a great innovator like you were, what does the future of television look like?
“When I look at the children, I see their future and also ours. As elders, we are guided by these children who have a very strong sensitivity to the environment and solidarity. I was amazed at the reception they gave to Peter Ace, one of the stars of the show, a guy with 2.5 million followers. He does good through the web. Hanging out with bums, bringing food, hugging bums. They also love footballers but the reception they gave this guy was superior. This means that there is a civic education that we cannot imagine. I was moved by this boy and even more by the reaction of the other children. That means there’s a generation that isn’t as degenerate as some want to show us.”