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Corrado Guzzanti 
Born May 17, 1965
RomeNationality Italian Occupation Actor, director, writer and satirist 
Guzzanti and the cast of Fascisti su marte.
Corrado Guzzanti (born May 17, 1965) is an Italian actor, director, writer and satirist. He has been described as "the most interesting satirical author and actor today"[1] and "among the comedians best loved by the Italian public."[2]
Biography
Born in Rome, he is the son of journalist and Senator Paolo Guzzanti, great-nephew of former Minister of Health Elio Guzzanti, and brother of Sabina and Caterina, both also Italian television personalities and satirical actresses.
After beginning his career as writer for his sister Sabina, he debuted with roles for himself in Avanzi, hosted by Serena Dandini, with whom he collaborated in almost all his subsequent TV shows. These include Tunnel, Maddecheaò, Pippo Chennedy Show and L'ottavo nano.
He is famous for his corrosive imitations of Italian politicians and personalities: an incomplete list include Emilio Fede, Antonello Venditti, Francesco Rutelli, Romano Prodi, Fausto Bertinotti, Gianfranco Funari, Gianni Baget Bozzo, Giulio Tremonti and many others. He has also notoriously sent up Berlusconi's lauding of "freedom," which he and other critics of the Prime Minister view cynically, in a sketch in which he urinated on a couch.[3][4]
Guzzanti has also created characters of his own, including avantgarde cinema director Rokko Smithersons (who appeared more like a leather-clad biker); Quelo, a comedic version of a new age guru with a number of catchphrases; Vulvia, the linkwoman of the Discovery Channel-like Re-Educational Channel; Lorenzo, a spoof of the "typical" late 1980s teenager, obsessed with Mtv, heavy metal, playing football and getting stoned; and the poet Brunello Robertetti, a satire of a typical Italian selfish and pseudo-profound intellectual. His latest character is Don Florestano Pizzarro, a powerful priest, in 2008.
In 2006 he debuted as movie director with Fascisti su Marte ("Fascists on Mars"), which features an anachronistic and heavily satirical plot about a group of Fascist militiamen attempting to colonize Mars (the red Bolshevik planet) during the Fascist era.
References
- ^ Vaime, Enrico (1998). "Vietato vietare". In Mario Morcellini. Società e industria culturale in Italia. Meltemi Editore. p. 134. http://books.google.com/books?id=IVQ7JGwGX54C&pg=PA134.
- ^ "Corrado Guzzanti". Italica. Rai Internazionale. http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/schede/navigando/guzzanti.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ Gibelli, Antonio (2010). Berlusconi passato alla storia: l'Italia nell'era della democrazia autoritaria. Donzelli Editore. p. 45. http://books.google.com/books?id=5JaBVS_A9LIC&pg=PA45.
- ^ Rutelli, Francesco (2001). "Libertà". Quindici parole. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 67. http://books.google.com/books?id=Kv7aQ6fODboC&pg=PA67.
External links
Media related to Corrado Guzzanti at Wikimedia Commons- Homepage (Currently offline)
- Fascisti su Marte at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Rome (city)
- Italian television personalities
- Italian actors
- Italian film directors
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