Word: guzzanti
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...only country where that chasm is becoming a nexus. In Italy, Sabina Guzzanti is a self-described buffoon (it has a slightly loftier connotation in Italian) and TV personality. In 2003 she launched a weekly show of political satire called RaiOt - for the network that carried it, RAI Tre, and the English word Riot. The comedy she perpetrated was unexceptional: getting made up as Silvio Berlusconi, Italy?s head of state, and telling jokes about him. But the show was cancelled after one airing, possibly because Berlusconi, a major industrialist, also owns RAI. "One man controls the government, the media...
...made a documentary, Viva Zapatero!. (The title exalts "And down with Berlusconi!") In this brisk blast of agitprop, Guzzanti, a handsome, passionate defender of her right to say what she wants, summarizes her case, quotes from attacks on her ("Madwoman"; "Tale Your Money and Shut Up") in Berlusconi-owned newspapers and ambushes politicians from Center-Left and Center-Right, who either supported Berlusconi or wouldn?t fight him. (Her father, one of her victims reminds her, is a Center-Right official. She replies, "I?m a grownup. I don?t have to ask permission...
...Guzzanti doesn?t speak with Jon Stewart, whose The Daily Show has made political satire and burlesque a nightly addiction for a million and a half Americans. But she does show excerpts from satirical series nearer home, including Rory Bremner?s Between Iraq and a Hard Place and the French puppet show Les Guignols de l?Info, in which effigies of Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi and other European leaders sing a mockery of "We Are the World" (in English): "We f--- the world, / We f--- the children, / We f--- the world, the forest...
...Viva Zapatero!, which won a 15-20 min. ovation at last year?s Venice Film Festival, was Guzzanti?s immediate revenge on Berlusconi. Her ultimate revenge came this week, when the mogul-politico finally acknowledged the defeat he suffered in last month?s election...
Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...
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