1. Corrado Guzzanti was born on 17 May 1965 and is an Italian satirical actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and impersonator.
16 Facts About Corrado Guzzanti
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Corrado Guzzanti has become famous both for his impersonations of Italian personalities, and for playing his own characters inspired by contemporary society.
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Corrado Guzzanti is the director of the film Fascisti su Marte.
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Corrado Guzzanti has been described as a genius of satirical comedy, "the most interesting satirical author and actor today", and "among the comedians best loved by the Italian public".
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Corrado Guzzanti started in the theatre as a writer of texts for his sister Sabina.
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Corrado Guzzanti made a name for himself with his impersonation of Vittorio Sgarbi, a controversial art historian, of Gianni Minoli, a journalist close to the then prime minister, the socialist Bettino Craxi, and above all with Rokko Smithersons, a fictional horror film director.
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From 1993 onwards, the sketches of the two Corrado Guzzanti siblings are focused on political news: at that time, the Italian justice system is involved in the investigation Mani pulite, which ends with the fall of the First Republic, while Silvio Berlusconi announces his "descent into the playing field".
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In 1997, in the programme "Pippo Chennedy Show", Corrado Guzzanti created another fictional character, Pippo Chennedy, who represents the "worst of the worst" of TV presenters.
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In 2000, when Berlusconi's movement took the name Casa della liberta, Corrado Guzzanti produced a series of parody advertisements in which the protagonists violated the most basic rules of decorum and civic sense.
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In 2002, Corrado Guzzanti directed his first personal television project, Il caso Scafroglia, a pseudo-journalistic programme based on the investigation into the disappearance of Mario Scafroglia, a fictional character.
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The presenter, played by Corrado Guzzanti, starting from Scafroglia's disappearance, analysed the Italian political situation, characterised at the time by the presence of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister.
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Corrado Guzzanti then decided to make it into a film and reduced his television appearances considerably.
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Corrado Guzzanti continued his experience as a film actor, in the film La passione by Carlo Mazzacurati, for which he received two nominations respectively for the Ciak d'Oro and the Kineo award.
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In 2011, as the director general of Italian public television Mauro Masi called the journalist Michele Santoro live to "reprimand" him about his report on Silvio Berlusconi, the next day Corrado Guzzanti called Serena Dandini live during her show Parla con me, parodying the general manager's intervention.
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In January 2013, Corrado Guzzanti was denounced by the Aiart for "having offended the religious feeling of Italians with barrack jokes", following the broadcast on public channel La7 of the play Recital, in which he played the role of Father Pizzarro.
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In 2023, Corrado Guzzanti portrayed a fictionalized version of himself in season 1, episode 1 of the Sky Atlantic TV series Call My Agent - Italia.