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Diego Abatantuono
Diego Abatantuono (Milan, 20 May 1955) is an Italian actor, screenwriter, comedian and TV presenter. Biography He was born in Milan, in via Carlo Dolci, on May 20, 1955 from an Apulian father and a Lombard mother. The father, Matteo, was a shoemaker from Vieste (FG), while the mother, Rosa, was a costume designer from Como, employed at the Derby Club, one of the most famous Milanese nightclubs active between the sixties and seventies.
Diego was born in the district of Viale Aretusa, on the western outskirts of Milan, but grew up in the popular neighborhood of the Minimum Houses, near the Lorenteggio, where his paternal grandparents lived. The neighborhood's childhood friend was the actor Ugo Conti.
In 1984 he married Rita Rabassini, with whom in 1985 he had a daughter, Marta. After the end of the marriage, in 1987, he had two children, Matteo Abatantuono (1995) and Marco (1997), with his partner Giulia Begnotti.
Diego's uncles, Gianni and Angela Bongiovanni, are the owners of the famous Milan Derby Club. In the club, his mother Rosa works as a dresser and therefore from an early age Abatantuono grows up in the cabaret environment, attending the rehearsals of the local artists.
During his adolescence he begins to frequent the club in the evening and to carry out the task of lighting technician, while during the day he attends the Industrial Technical Institute. As a lighting technician he is adopted by I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli, who take him around with them for the evenings.
Here he imposes himself with a comic character invented by Giorgio Porcaro: the southern immigrant in Milan. With the two of them and Massimo Boldi, Mauro Di Francesco, Giorgio Faletti, Ernst Thole, and others, Enzo Jannacci and Beppe Viola form the Repellent Group, with which they put on the show La Upholstery, following which the group participates in the program television broadcast from the Milanese branch of Raidue Saltimbanchi si muore.
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Felice Andreasi
Felice Andreasi (Turin, January 8, 1928 - Cortazzone, December 25, 2005) was an Italian actor and cabaret artist, active in cinema and theater. Considered one of the greatest exponents of comic-satirical theater, he linked his name to various television broadcasts, especially in the seventies, and to his activity as a cabaret comedian and author of monologues for the theater.
Appreciated humorist, he was also the author of aphorisms and lapidary jokes full of surreal humor.
Andreasi enjoyed success like other singer-actors such as Enzo Jannacci, LinoToffolo, Cochi Ponzoni and Renato Pozzetto for participation in the television program Il poeta e il peasant (1973). In fact, his career had begun much earlier, in the theater, where, in 1968, he had played Mercadet, the businessman figure designed by Balzac. For the cinema (about thirty titles interpreted).
The multifaceted figure of Felice Andreasi also includes that of the theatrical author: in fact he wrote a collection of monologues and short stories entitled D'amore (different) si muore. With his typical Piedmontese accent (a real stylistic figure, together with very slow speech to simulate stupidity) in the seventies he had a lot of television success as a singer.
Felice Andreasi died on Christmas Eve 2005 from complications due to Parkinson's disease, which he had been suffering from for some time.
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Enrico Beruschi
For 15 years he worked as an accountant at Galbusera, where he reached the position of Deputy Commercial Director. During his work experience he begins to attend the evening course in Economics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart without completing his studies. In 1972 he attempts an artistic career at the Derby Club in Milan; after two years he leaves his day job to devote himself to the show as a professional stand-up comedian, an activity which, albeit sporadically, he still carries out.
In 1977 he is the character "Salvatore the inventor" in the television program for children Qua la zampa and is also present in the Non stop program, together with the Cats of Vicolo Miracoli, La Smorfia, Boris Makaresko, Marco Messeri and Nicola Arigliano. He is also present in other Rai programs such as La sberla, Luna Park and All inclusive.
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Claudio Bisio
Claudio Giuseppe Bisio (Novi Ligure, 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, TV presenter, comedian, cabaret artist and humorist.
Biography
Born in Novi Ligure (AL), at 5 he moved with his family to Milan. He attended the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Milan for two years before leaving and graduating in 1981 at the Civic Dramatic Art School of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In the seventies, a student of the "Luigi Cremona" high school in Milan, he was an activist of the Avanguardia Operaia, alternating political commitment with a passion for theater and beginning to act at the Leoncavallo Social Center. Turning out to be very good, his teacher at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano advised him to become a stand-up comedian.
The Beginning
Bisio's artistic references, which will remain over time, are three: the group of the Teatro dell'Elfo headed by Paolo Rossi and Gabriele Salvatores, who will open the way to his first appearances on the stage and on the small and large screen (Bisio in fact will appear in 1990 in the video clip of the song "Megu Megùn" by Fabrizio De Andrè directed by Gabriele Salvatores himself); the stage of the Zelig, an alternative venue in the first northern Milan suburbs, which Bisio will contribute over time to make a place of worship (even now almost synonymous with Milanese cabaret, in an ideal relay race with the Derby of the seventies and eighties), up to the recent moves in the larger space of the Tenda Theater in Sesto San Giovanni and in the more comfortable Teatro degli Arcimboldi; Sergio Conforti aka Rocco Tanica, keyboardist and composer as well as co-leader of the Elio e le Storie Tese group, who will help him cultivate a parallel career as a singer.
1980’s
His first significant appearance on television is participation in the Zanzibar program (1988), a sort of ante litteram sitcom in which David Riondino (already launched by some successful musical hits at the Maurizio Costanzo Show), Gigio Alberti, Antonio Catania, Angela also appear. Finocchiaro, Karina Huff, Silvio Orlando. His role is that of Italo, a mechanic, a Communist and a Milan fan.
After some participations in television programs conceived by Paolo Rossi (Su la testa! And Cielito lindo), together with talented rookies such as Antonio Albanese, Maurizio Milani and Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo, at the beginning of the nineties Bisio obtained a surprising success as a singer sui generis or Milanese rapper with the brilliant Rapput, co-written with Rocco Tanica, which will be followed by the hilarious album Paté d'animo, where he proves to be completely up to it even as a real singer.
He finds himself playing in the winning team of Salvatores who wins the Oscar with Mediterraneo, then proposing himself again in an exceptional interpretative duet with Diego Abatantuono in Puerto Escondido, with which he takes away the whim of denying his teacher of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano with a role that it would be reductive to label it as a comedian, even more incisive and dry in contrast to the well-known gigioneggiamenti of the partner (Bisio had already appeared in a role between drama and comedy also in Salvatores' second film, Kamikazen - Last night in Milan). Always together with Abatantuono, he is the protagonist of the famous gas station scene in the film Turné, also by Salvatores.
1990’s
In 1996 he began his successful partnership with advertising, working with directors such as Daniele Luchetti and Muccino, and demonstrating an extraordinary suitability for the medium. She still unsurpassed for her surreal madness about her first appearance of her, in which she converses with the pig. In the spring of 1997 she leads on Italia 1 together with Antonella Elia Faciamo Cabaret, forerunner of the lucky Zelig. Bisio is also a regular presence in the seasons 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 of Mai dire gol, where the well-known and almost prophetic character of the football agent Micio, cynical and manipulative, and of the "luminary" Dr. Imbruglia, incapable and somewhat past due.
Here too, Bisio proves adequate to the comic times of the broadcast and the fierce dialectical competition with Gialappa's Band, which had instead brought some comedians and conductors close to nervous exhaustion. In 1997, under the direction of Martelli, a two-part TV drama entitled A lucky day was released for Rai, where he plays the role of a patient. Fabio Fazio and Enzo Jannacci also participate in the role of doctors. The fiction was shot for external scenes in Imperia, a province of Liguria, and for internal scenes in Rome.
Following a continuation of his career as a film actor with the 1999 film Asini and an intense theatrical activity, with the new century Bisio discovers himself as conductor, and subsequently conductor-playmaker with successful forays also in dance, on the Zelig stage.
In 2012, after 15 years, he abandoned the management of Zelig indefinitely, declaring he wanted to take a break to be able to devote himself to other activities, and on January 14, 2013 he was the first guest of the new edition, conducted by Teresa Mannino and Michele Foresta.
The following February 16 participates as a guest in the last evening of the Sanremo Festival, conducted by Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto. Sky chooses him as the new judge at Italia's Got Talent in 2015. In 2018 he leads the Italian version of Saturday Night Live for TV8.
Private life
He has two children, Alice (1996) and Federico (1998), with his wife, the journalist Sandra Bonzi, with whom he has been married since 23 August 2003.
He is a great Milan fan, and he is an atheist.
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Ezio Greggio
Ezio Greggio (Cossato, 7 April 1954) is an Italian television host, comedian, stand-up comedian, actor, director and screenwriter with Albanian citizenship. He is also a freelance journalist enrolled in the order of journalists. Since the first edition, he has led the satirical news program Striscia la Notizie, of which he is the most representative face together with Enzo Iacchetti. He resides in the principality of Monaco, where he organizes the Monte-Carlo Film Festival de la Comédie. He is the founder and animator of an association committed in favor of premature babies.
Biography
Youth
It was born in 1954 in Cossato, at the time in the province of Vercelli, by Nereo Greggio (1923-2018) and Luciana Boggiani (1930-2014). Nereo Greggio, originally from Monselice in the Padua area, had been a soldier in Greece during the Second World War and after the armistice of 8 September, conducted in a German stalag, he decided not to enlist in the army of the newly formed Italian Social Republic. This decision cost him three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp in Germany.
Ezio's father was the director of a textile company where his mother also worked. While his father hoped for a job in a bank for him, Ezio tries to enter the world of entertainment. He made his debut on Telebiella, the first Italian local television; the director Peppo Sacchi, founder of the broadcaster, recalls the beginnings of Greggio in his book Il crepuscolo della Tv.
He made his debut as a stand-up comedian at Rai in 1978, participating in the programs La sberla e All-inclusive by Giancarlo Nicotra and Giancarlo Magalli without particular success, but he met Gianfranco D'Angelo who convinced him to leave RAI to move on to the newborn Fininvest in which he then joined him in conducting of the comedy program Drive In, which gave him popularity, in particular with the parody of telesales in which he auctioned a kitsch painting of the non-existent painter Teomondo Scrofalo, a sketch that was then resumed in the following years in the Veline program and mentioned in his film Box Office 3D - The movie of the movies.
The great success on TV and the continuation of his acting career
In 1988 on Canale 5 he conducted with Lorella Cuccarini Odiens, a program of Antonio Ricci who subsequently wanted him as the host of his new show Paperissima, which debuted in 1990.
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Giorgio Faletti
Giorgio Faletti (Asti, 25 November 1950 - Turin, 4 July 2014) was an Italian writer, actor, songwriter, comedian and comedian.
A multifaceted and eclectic character, in the course of his life he has been able to achieve success in different fields, first as a cabaret comedian, then as a singer and finally as a crime writer.
Biography
The beginning and Milanese cabaret
The only son of Carlo Faletti and Michela Dafarra, Giorgio Faletti lived as a child in Borgo Torretta, in a modest apartment on Corso Torino, in Asti. His father was a traveling merchant and sold buttons and hairpins in Piazza Vittorio Alfieri, in the center of Asti. His mother was a seamstress. Faletti's grandfather was an antique dealer and collected antiques, works of art, furniture and books in his warehouse. In 1976 the twenty-six-year-old Faletti, together with two friends, rented an advertising studio in Asti.
He also enrolled in jurisprudence without completing his studies, preferring to take the show route. He moved to Milan, where he attended courses at the newly born Milanese theater school Quelli di Grock, founded by Maurizio Nichetti. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Milanese Derby Club in the seventies, in the same period in which Diego Abatantuono, Teo Teocoli, Massimo Boldi, Paolo Rossi, Giorgio Porcaro, Francesco Salvi, Enzo Jannacci circulated on the stage.
On television he made his debut in 1979 at Telealtomilanese as part of the Playboy midnight television broadcast, in 1981 he then passed on the screens of Antennatre in Il juxtaposition, and in 1983 he participated alongside Raffaella Carrà in Pronto Raffaella. In 1985 he entered Drive In, Antonio Ricci's television program. His most famous character was Vito Catozzo, but he also played others, such as Carlino, Sister Daliso, the Masked Cabaret player, Topolinho and the "Bagnacavallo witness". Shortly after, alongside Zuzzurro and Gaspare he created the character of Franco Tamburino in Emilio.
Death
Suffering from lung cancer, in the spring of 2014 he underwent a series of treatments in Los Angeles. Transferred to the Molinette hospital in Turin, he died on 4 July 2014, aged 63. After the funeral home, set up in Asti in the Vittorio Alfieri Theater, the funeral took place on 8 July in the Collegiate Church of San Secondo. He is buried in the Asti cemetery.
Private life
Very reserved, he was married to the architect Roberta Bellesini, the two met in 2000, during a reception in the house of a mutual friend in Asti.
Car racing
Passionate about car racing, Faletti for years held the column Io, rogue for Autosprint magazine and participated as a driver in two rallies valid for the FIA world championship: the 1992 Sanremo Rally with a Lancia Delta Integrale Gr.A of Martini Racing (finishing 15th overall), and the 1998 Monte Carlo Rally with a Fiat Cinquecento Sporting Gr.A (finishing 54th overall), with Giuseppe Cerri as navigator.
In 1993 he took part in the time trial of the Nido Dell'Aquila with a Lancia Delta Integrale, overturning without consequences in the final stretch. In the following week his column "Io Canaglia" on Autosprint was entitled "Someone flew over the Eagle's Nest". The text, accompanied by a full-page photo of the car in flight, simply read "Me, holy cow !!!" Among his racing companions there was also Dodi Battaglia.
He was a fan of Juventus, Ducati Corse and Scuderia Ferrari.
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Enzo Iacchetti
Enzo Iacchetti, born Vincenzo Iacchetti (Castelleone, 31 August 1952), is an Italian actor, comedian, television host and singer. Since 1994 he has been conducting the "satirical newscast" Striscia la Notizia with Ezio Greggio, becoming one of its historical faces.
Biografia
After having resigned from the travel agency Globus in Lugano, in 1978 he began his career at Radio Tresa, a small free radio station in Lavena, dealing with all programming: radio news, entertainment for housewives and children, political contributions and assistance. for retirees. He worked his way up as an entertainer at baptisms and weddings and in pizzerias. He began his profession as a comedian in 1979 at the Derby Club in Milan.
Until 1985 he frequented the club with assiduity, staging shows with Francesco Salvi, Giorgio Faletti, Walter Valdi, Giobbe Covatta, Malandrino and Veronica, I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli.On television, until the early nineties, he worked in numerous programs for Rai, Mediaset and Telemontecarlo: from 1986 to 1989 Sportacus on Odeon TV, Play your game and Tiramisù on Rai 2, Banane on Telemontecarlo, in 1993 Dido ... menica on Italia 1 and in 1994 Italia Firza on Telemontecarlo and Giro d' Italy over Italy 1.
In 1990 he began his collaboration with the Maurizio Costanzo Show where he presented his poems and "bonsai" songs, which he collected in an album in 1991. In 1994 he obtained the conduct of Striscia la Notizie together with Ezio Greggio, an artistic association that will continue for many seasons (and which still lasts), always obtaining a resounding success. In 1995 he became the testimonial of the Standa department store, owned by Fininvest at the time.
Private life
He has a son, Martino, born in 1986 from his ex-wife Roberta. From 2002 to 2007 he had a relationship with the showgirl Maddalena Corvaglia. Inter Milan fan.
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Boris Makaresko
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose it. Panic when your wife loses it too. " (Boris Makaresko) Boris Makaresko (Belgrade, December 20, 1946 - Milan, March 15, 2016) was an Italian comedian and stand-up comedian of Russian, Romanian and Montenegrin origins.
Biography
Makaresko was very active in the Milanese scene, especially around the group of comedians who performed at the local Derby in Milan. In the course of his life, however, he has taken part in numerous other events both as a unique guest and in the presence of other comedians. He also acted in short films and took part in commercials for cultural activities. In addition to acting, Makaresko collaborates with the crossword publications L'altra enigmistica, L'avvenire enigmistico, La grande enigmistica and Civiltà enigmistica.
Career
Makaresko's debut as an actor takes place with Paolo Poli in the late 1960s. In 1970, however, he worked with the Compagnia del Teatro Uomo in Milan and then landed as a stand-up comedian at the famous Derby Club, in which he performed until his closing year, 1986. Despite his lack of success as a film actor, he managed to establish himself. as an interpreter for television: joins the first cast of the Non Stop variety by Enzo Trapani, which will also launch artists such as Massimo Troisi, Enrico Beruschi, Jerry Calà and I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli.
Subsequently, on television he participates in the iconic variety of the 80s Drive In, created by Antonio Ricci who remembers him amicably in the anecdotes about the beginning of his career. In the same years he established himself as a stand-up comedian with numerous local television channels (such as TeleAltomilanese, Antenna 3 Lombardia, Odeon TV) and in clubs (such as Ca 'Bianca and Zelig in Milan, Hiroshima Mon Amour in Turin).
Makaresko was also among the authors of Premiatissima and Risatissima, as well as writing texts for actors such as Massimo Boldi, Mario Zucca, Gigi and Andrea. He is also known as the author of books, including Quiz del Quaz, Sgarbi all'arte, The manual of the battutist and the Alternative Dictionary.
After death
Makaresko is recognized by critics and audiences as one of the best and most fervent comedians on the Milanese scene. The journalist and TV presenter Gianfranco Funari, who had met him at the Milan Derby in 1969, remembers him like this: "He was the best comedian in the Derby, who then had less luck than others, that's another story."
The fellow author and comedian Alberto Patrucco, on the other hand, having heard the news of his death commented: "I met him in the late seventies when very few did this job. He was already a dean of this world, I was a young man.
He was a very private person of few words, but he had a really smart and gentle humor. We became friends over time and the loss of him made me very sad. "
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Franco Nebbia
Franco Nebbia (Rome, 15 December 1927 - Trieste, 30 October 1984) was an Italian musician, radio host, actor, author, journalist and film critic, one of the main names in Italian cabaret.
Biography
He began his career as a jazz musician: in 1949 with Carlo Loffredo he founded the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band.
At the beginning of the fifties, thanks to the meeting with the theatrical trio of I Gobbi (Alberto Bonucci, Vittorio Caprioli and Franca Valeri) he began his career as a cabaret artist. Composer of committed songs, always performed in a surreal key, in 1964 he founded the Nebbia Club in Milan, an alternative venue to the Derby, characterized by a cultured and biting underground programming. The texts of the shows were often written, as well as by Nebbia himself, by Enrico Vaime and many intellectuals often censored and against the tide.
The Nebbia Club was the first true Italian cabaret theater. He rigorously codified, decades in advance, the language, form, style and content of what is still considered authentic cabaret theater today.
From 1969 to 1975, Franco Nebbia enjoyed great popularity on the radio when he was suddenly called by Rai to replace Enzo Tortora, purged by the same state television, to conduct the popular program Il shrimp, a counter-current quiz called "the reverse quiz. ", because the competitor's prize pool was halved for each wrong answer, which was the Sunday lunch appointment for families. In 1975 he conducted, with Felice Andreasi and Anna Mazzamauro, the numerous episodes of the show Quelli del cabaret.
His success opened the doors of the cinema, where he appeared in several films, and on television with some dramas. In 1982 he participated, as director and speaker, in the realization of the Guitar Course by Franco Cerri and Mario Gangi, published by the Fabbri Publishing Group.
Nebbia died at the age of 57 of a heart attack, during the reruns of Horvath's La signorina Pollinger, directed by Giorgio Pressburger with Sandro Massimini and Daniela Mazzuccato, at the Politeama Rossetti in Trieste. He had won the Forte dei Marmi Satire Prize a few months before his death. The daughter Silvia is also an actress.
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Enzo Robutti
Enzo Robutti (Bologna, 24 ottobre 1933) è un attore e comico.
Biography
Among the great pioneers and innovators of cabaret in Italy, his comedy, excessive for mimicry and mastery in the interpretation of the characters, has represented a model for many. He is the creator of a characteristic mask that will find Italian genre cinema among its most apt locations but also appreciated abroad, particularly in comedy.
He graduated from the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Discovered cinematically by the Taviani Brothers, he made his debut on the big screen in the film The Outlaws of Marriage in 1963. In 1970 he was among the protagonists at the Derby Club in Milan with Enzo Jannacci, Cochi and Renato, Gianfranco Funari, Toni Santagata, Teo Teocoli, often interpreting surreal characters and angry. Federico Fellini wanted him for the voice of Ciccio Ingrassia in Amarcord of 1973. Among others he also works with Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather - Part III of 1990. As a voice actor, Robutti lent his voice to Christopher Lloyd in Someone flew on Milos Forman's cuckoo nest.
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