WE ARE HUNGRY MEN

COMICITÀ, SATIRA, PARODIA: ALL YOU CAN EAT

We invest on comedy because it’s the best litmus test on current issues. Whether it turns to satire, employs parody or chooses to put itself at the service of other media instead of using them – comedy might not inform us, but it updates us: other genres can afford to get by, scraping a living off decrepit clichés, but comedy won’t be forgiven for doing so (we no longer laugh at slips on banana peels; at most, we pretend to, out of desperation). Because comedian ridicules and devoures the language of his time: he’s a cannibal who carefully tells us what we taste like.
This meeting combines analysis and faffing about, the wisdom of the veterans and the healthy arrogance of newcomers. A weirdly happy motley crew with whom we’ll take the pulse on ‘whatmakesuslaugh’ in Italy and its evolution across several generations.
We’ll host Massimo Olcese, whom together with Adolfo Margiotta parodied the parodiable in “Avanzi” and later in “Tunnel”; Sergio Spaccavento, the theorist, with his dissertation on comedy in advertisement communication; the gallows humour of Alessandro Gori AKA lo Sgargabonzi, a blogger and trickster, a cynic who laughs at cynics; the ZERO trio, with the occult persuasion of viral comedy; Enrico Lando, director and author of “II Soliti Idioti”, thanks to which he managed to inject an Italian version of Little Britain into our wheezing TV broadcasts; and Carlani and Dogana, authors of “Mario. Una Serie di Maccio Capatonda”, who likewise imported The Onion.
With the help of moderator, journalist and philologist Enrico Pucci, we’ll rummage through