Andrea Pucci, debut with Zelig “with Ruhr”: voice 4
“I saw him very excited behind the scenes, it is the first time he has appeared on this stage,” announces Vanessa Incontrada. The almost Ambrogino d’Oro Andrea Pucci is 58 years old and feels completely at home. Once upon a time, he left the house and initially wondered if he had brought condoms with him. Today the Oki (“Where is the one who invented it? He’s a genius! If I find him, I’ll snog him!”). “I’m halfway there,” he admits, and then describes in detail the complex relationship he has with his wife: She tells him he’s fat. So he goes to the gym but as soon as he gets home he falls asleep instead of making love. Patience. The loudest applause from the collapse of the Arcimboldi Theater comes when he shouts “Dysentery,” a side effect of ginger that, if it were up to him, he would only use as a coaster. Finally he goes on to a very inaccurate analysis of the television shows: “On Dancing with the Stars, Mughini dances the Macarena” (interesting crossover), on Big Brother VIP (no longer on air) Magalli’s gas station attendant (perhaps Pucci!), “luckily there is “It’s Zelig for comedians,” he concludes. The first one was terrible.
Maurizio Lastrico talks about Rocky in Genoese: rating 8.5
Finally we laugh. Now a fictional actor on both Rai and Sky, Maurzio Lastrico returns to the stage that introduced him to the world of entertainment, in Genoese. “I come from a small village in the Ligurian hinterland, where there were two points of growth for a boy: the bar and the oratory. Both are united by the fact that God was often mentioned.” He then reveals that the grandfather with whom he grew up, who was called Kofi Annan because of his generous openness to others, told him films in the Genoese dialect. The voice version of Rocky is hilarious. And now it is pronounced “RockyV” (with the final “V”, editor’s note). “But where do you want to go when you’re older than the invention of pissing?!” The audience screams at boxer Stallone as he enters the ring against Ivan Drago. Then, as soon as the bystanders realize that “RockyV” is on the verge of triumph, “they jump on the winner’s bandwagon, like those in Savona who support Juventus.” Finally, “the two boxers fight like Sgarbi and Mughini in the Forum” (In reality, the historic RSA dispute took place on the Maurizio Costanzo Show. But we laugh a lot, so we’ll forgive the oversight, editor’s note). Sooner or later, someone was bound to achieve the feat of entertainment. We thank you very much.
Barbie and Ken hypochondriac, the horror interview (you never laugh): vote 5
Couldn’t Zelig have witnessed the worldwide success of the film Barbie? Maybe yes. But of course no. Gianluca De Angelis and Marta Zoboli, who have been seen for years with their boring speed dating sketches on the stage of the Biscione comedy troupe, enter the scene dressed as a Mattel doll and her loyal companion Ken. She is a hypochondriac and believes she is in the presence of “Doctor Bolloni” (Claudio Bisio). He hands him the bottle of urine, the innkeeper takes it and is disgusted: it’s all wet. Patience. The aged and sluggish Ken reveals that he’s “shrunk so much because I’m a PD voter” and then pampers his new version, due out at Christmas: a cross between Lucio Dalla and Zucchero. Barbie, on the other hand, will lie under the tree as a soprano on December 25th. And then he starts screaming in high tones that not even dolphins could decipher. Or they would like to hear it. “You look more like a lifesaver,” Ken scoffs. And Bisio finally gives up on the interview, theoretically on the structure of the entire gag: “I have nothing more to ask you, you are embarrassing.” I am.
Federica Ferrero, the evil chat of the bride and groom’s friends: rating 8+
Last season, it captivated everyone with the hysteria of a mom talk that was so surreal and over-the-top that it seemed all too real. In the first episode, Federica Ferrero returned with the same formula in a condo. This time he finds his scratch by reading the WhatsApp conversation between friends of an engaged couple: “There are 100, as soon as the group opens, 28 run away” (very true, editor’s note). The future wife’s ex quietly points out: “You added me by mistake, but it doesn’t matter because I took it well.” The one who always jokes glares at him: “Well, you see, He can tolerate it better.” Then someone rejects the idea of giving away a nice trip to Australia, and the cheap duty officer intervenes: “I’ll pay the fare from Milan to Malpensa.” “It’s unbelievable that people are still getting married in 2023!” shouted Ferrero at the beginning of the piece. And in the end the evil chat actually manages to cause the impending marriage to explode. Great happy ending, congratulations!
Davide Calgaro, always the usual “prodigy” (?): Rating 5-
He’s from Baggio, has the face of a teen idol and a talent that’s more touted than obvious. Davide Calgaro began performing at the age of 17. He is now 23 years old and can look back on a very long CV that even includes television series and films (including at least two with Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo). In this second episode of Zelig, he delivers a boring monologue emanating from his parents, both doctors and so Catholic that they waited until marriage before copulating for the first time. However, from here the “prodigy” begins to calculate the improbability of the existence of a soul mate. The chance of actually hitting them would be “one in 104 billion”. If you are bisexual. On Twitter (sorry, How many more years will it take before it actually makes you laugh? After all, he’s young, will it happen? With comfort…
Ippolita Baldini is Lucy, Bisio’s evil child molester: Rating 7/8
In order to prove, at least in this second episode, the complete superiority of the comedians over their male colleagues, Ippolita Baldini also slips into the role of Lucy, Claudio Bisio’s violent harasser. Every comma is a nonsense of the English language that not even Chiara Ferragni, who comes on stage with a slap in the face, announces: “I signed the deed!” Cladio, you said that you got me pregnant when I was a I bought a house. When will you redeem this naked property? And she holds out her skirt to the unfortunate innkeeper, who doesn’t want to hear about it. “By the way,” behind the cougar attitude there may be a very tender heart: “I would like to dedicate a song to everyone who is looking for a soul mate. But anyone who has already found it stinks.” The song is Mila and Shiro’s theme song and of course she sings it for Bisio. Before singing, the piece requires “some Botox, so to speak, to create atmosphere, reverberation”. As he leaves the theater, the presenter confesses: “I love her, but she scares me.” After the usual series of renegade comedians as an implied theme, there is finally a woman who is able to give them the same, to retaliate in a very rude manner. We appreciate it.
Ornano Rock’n’Roll, she wants to be Ornella Vanoni: voice 8
Antonio Ornano, who is already one of the protagonists of the GialappaShow in this second edition, is looking forward to returning to the Zelig stage. It begins biographically: “On December 3, 1995, I gave my first kiss to the woman who would become my wife, Crostatina. 28 years have passed, just like Matteo Messina Denaro on the run.” How do you survive this “prison”, i.e. marriage? “Thanks to the rock music I liked since my childhood, when I went to Duran Duran concerts with lighters and matches to create atmosphere. In fact, today I no longer have fingerprints like a drug dealer. Ornano, with the malice that has always accompanied him, enjoys talking about the reunion with his high school classmates: “To see how those who played water polo have been transfigured again over time, that’s priceless, they don’t even have an ass anymore!” . We understand evil pleasure. Finally, the comedian is staged in the exaggerated ode of a local song diva: “As a child, my myth was Jim Morrison, who showed his genitals on stage, today it is Ornella Vanoni, the rockiest of them all.” Unlike Blanco, the two Flowers on the Ariston stage moved because the record company told him to! Vanoni is so unfiltered that she hired a supervisor to roll her joints. Ornella, I will lead you to triumph!” Well-deserved standing ovation.