Giorgio Panariello

The origins

Originally from Naples (his grandparents were from Torre del Greco), Panariello graduated from a hotel school in Marina di Massa. His classmate was the future disc jockey, radio and television presenter Carlo Conti. Together they started in the radio and at local venues in Tuscany as impressionists. He immediately gained success with an impersonation of the singer Renato Zero.

The beginnings

By the end of the 1970s, he lived in Versilia doing several jobs, he even worked as a waiter in various places including The Shed Cinquale. He created a partnership with others from Versilia including Franco Ginesi, Rino Rivieri, Adolfo Dragon, Mario Bertoncini, Ennio Bongiorni and Umberto musts. Together they formed the group The Lambrettomani (named after the Lambretta), taking their act to Florence where he meets at the Aloha of Fiesole, Carlo Conti and Leonardo Pieraccioni.

He is well known for his skills in the imitation of Renato Zero: in collaboration with Drago, in the role of the driver, delivered an interesting show in Viareggio. Began performing solo with greater frequency in the clubs of Tuscany, before arriving in transmissions for launching new talent, Tonight I throw myself. At the same time, he began an internship with two theatrical performances in which he began to bring people typically Tuscan, by his pupil Simone (closer to the fashions of the moment that the study) dall'ubriaco Mario Merigo to the lifeguard.

Success

Together with Carlo Conti is still on the small screen in the 1994, transmission Fresh Paint on Teleregione Tuscany. The following year the couple garnered more success with Fresh Air, on the local Channel 10, Videomusic and after few episodes of transferred Telemontecarlo thanks to the excellent ratings.

The duo Panariello-Conti is thus able to land on the RAI and together they are the protagonists of the program Hands On in the summer of 1996 and It is now airing in the summer of 1997.

At the movies

He joined the stable of new Italian comic of Nineties, together with Antonio Albanian, Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, Leonardo Pieraccioni and others, under the aegis the manufacturer Vittorio Cecchi Gori debut at the cinema in the 1996 in an unusually dramatic role of a marshal of a town in Tuscany Thirties in anxious expectation of Duce in the film Hotel Roma, directed by Ugo Chiti and based on his stage play Allegretto ... decent but not too much. At the movies, where it appears then in a brilliant role in the comedy of Umberto Marino Alone at last prefers the stage, starting in 1997 with roars of silence proposed in VHS.

Engages as a director, directing himself in two films: in 1999 in Water bath, an anthology of his characters, and the following year in At the right, where he plays a reporter who finds it engaged in a scoop sensational: the collapse of Tower of Pisa. In 2005 returns to the big screen in films shot by Pieraccioni I love you in all the languages of the world, one of the blockbusters at Christmas of that year. In 2007, he played in Night Before Exams - Today by Fausto Brizzi and SMS - In disguise by Vincenzo Salemme, with whom he collaborated in the following year in No problem.

Show

In 2000, he was the leading host of Torno Sabato (Saturday I'll be back) which on Saturday evening in Rai Uno for three seasons, and which is proposed as a showman in duets, singing and comedy, with famous people, including Renato Zero, and execution of the song The actor, former battle horse of Charles Aznavour. Among the important guests Sophia Loren, Luciano Pavarotti, Vasco Rossi, Joe Cocker, Andrea Bocelli, Joe Cocker, Raffaella Carra, Gianni Morandi and Claudio Baglioni as a duet.

Even on television, after appearing as a guest of honor of Festival of Sanremo in March 2004 faces his first American tour, to New York City.

In October 2004, he returned to television in the live broadcast from Montecatini But the sky is always bluer.

In 2005, Panariello interpreted the fiction Matilde by Sabrina Ferilli.

Theater

In 1984 wrote and acted in theater, the show Brothers of Italy, supported by Leonardo Pieraccioni and Carlo Conti.

On the stage, ever since 2001, began a collaboration with the director Giampiero Solari and with the singer Paolo Belli, former member of The Bicycle Thief complex in the spring of 2003 plays her first serious role, Monsieur Jordain, in Bourgeois Gentleman by Moliere. In 2007 back with the show I do my best and 2011 is back with no Panariello.

From February 2010 brings to the stage at the theater the show Any Given Sunday: an experiment in theater on the radio: the eight nights of the show planned, designed the theater The Club of Rome, are broadcast live on radio frequencies of RTL 102.5: Panariello in this new work presents a series of new characters alongside the classics of his repertoire.

In 2011, he went on tour in Italy for a new show called no Panariello.

Sanremo Festival

In 2006, he is chosen as artistic director and presenter of the 56th Sanremo Music Festival, supported by Ilary Blasi and Victoria Cabello.

The return

Mediaset TV During the Mediaset Night 2011, the traditional evening where the vertices of the Mediaset presented new autumn programming, advertisers and the press, Piersilvio Berlusconi has announced the addition of a team that will work with Mediaset Giorgio Panariello in the season 2011/2012.

Disputes

In July 2009, he was at the center of a political controversy: Some residents of Montignoso, a town where the comedian has long lived (and still lives in the summer months) have submitted a formal request to the mayor not to Panariello to confer honorary citizenship for which he had opened the process. The reason, the choice of the comic as a consultant to work with the mayor of Meadow Work Roberto, a prominent center of Tuscany. Panariello has denied the accusation of being a traitor politician, claiming that there is no longer the ideological fence, and his choice to support Work has been dictated by an old friendship, given that the current Mayor of Prato, entrepreneur and administrator Director of Sasch, was one of the early backers of his

Press

He was awarded three Oscars and television Telegatto as a "TV personality of the year."

Books

In September 2008 he released his first book, I'll never leave alone, which tells the story of a man who can change their lives and discover the true values of life with the help of a small dog.

Music

Panariello is also an author of songs, including Questa Vita (written with Massimo Miniati, guitarist Inside 31, and sung in pair with Giorgia in Torno sabato) and Che Natale sei(sung along with Petra Magoni).

In 1988, he participates in the hard dance music project Mod Ranked # 4 with Judicta and II Judicta. In the two vinyls are imitations of Roberto Benigni and Francesco Nuti and the voice of Pope John Paul II.

In 1989, he appeared in the mix Mussolini dance, doing an imitation of Mussolini. The vinyl also contains a monologue Panariello.

In 1992, he released a disc mix where George sings his own version of The Sky on one side while on the other hand, a dance version with all its imitators and his characters.

In 1996, the so-called public Fresh Air, containing the songs for the transmission of the same name, sung by Carlo Conti and Panariello itself, produced by Gianluca Sibaldi, Fernando Carlo Conti and Capecchi.

His characters

Giorgio Panariello has imitated many famous people and fictional, including Magic Alberta, Mario lifeguard, Merigo, Simon, Renato Zero, Splendor Lello, Nando, Flavio Briatore, Ficus, Ms. Italy, Naomo, Bove Pius the butcher, The Pierre Kitikaka of Orbetello, Raperino, Bruschetta, Julio Iglesias, Alessandro Del Piero and Sirvano.

One of his most famous characters is Mario, the lifeguard's Maria Bath of Forte dei Marmi, where he always worked. His employer is a named Beatrice who, when she calls him, he replies "Oh BIGE, ghe digge? '.

His favorite exclamation is "Mariannagane." For each appearance Mario boasts of incredible feats that occurred in the sea as rescue groups or races won in all sorts of plunder. Its motto is "G'ho a given power in braggi not indifferent." The character also appears in the film Water bath.

Born with the first theatrical performance Notebooks squares, is a very lively child, always ready to create weeds in the family constantly speaking ill of everything and everyone. Despite frequent the school you can not define a model student: among all her hobbies just mention the frequent writing letters to Santa Claus and tokens (which takes care to let him know how it was nice and quiet during the year, then presenting an abnormal list of gifts), is madly in love with a classmate Julia and spends most of his time with his grandfather, to him who combines all the colors. He loves video games and cartoons, first of all Power Rangers, with whom he identifies totalizing, shouting his slogan "Simon Power Rangers" constantly holding his arms up. The character also appears in the film Water bath.

Cyclist perpetually drunk, always dressed in a blue shirt with yellow stripes. Normally someone who is trying to steal the bicycle as a joke and then accuses him of having forgotten where he left as drunk. Often said to his companion "Do not be so stupid." The character also appears in the film Water bath.

Kitikaka of Orbetello The Pierre is a young man working at the disco Kitikaka Orbetello, the room where his sister would work well, which according to him, it would be extremely bad. She always dresses with a black leather jacket and tight pants phosphorescent green, with a clear package by way 'of pouch, from which the celebbrima question that often repeats: "You see the kangaroo?". The character also appears in the film Water bath, where the occasion is, however, the wayward son of the mayor of the village.

It's the classic participant in a quiz with prizes, bring a black head. When his partner asks him a question he always gives answers to quiz unlikely. He says very often "Yes, yes" and "Uh, excuse me!".

She is very talkative and gossipy middle-aged. You see it always when it is under the helmet of hair that tells the facts or their private acquaintances. It is used to mangle the names, such as spaghetti with lobster become for her spaghetti with mastic, or instead of breaking a lance in favor of her husband, breaks an orange. Cripple even the remote past of verbs, e.g. left becomes andiede, becomes ordered ordiniedi. From 2009 the character also appears in commercials Wind.

It is the most melancholy character of Panariello. An old man with a stick that sits on a bench and performed monologues talking about the past and present, with special emphasis on difficult conditions of the elderly.

Character introduced from Saturday 'll be back, that is a parody of Flavio Briatore (the name is the masculinization of Naomi Campbell, ex-girlfriend's sports manager). Naomo is rich and constantly flaunts its economic situation, stressing instead the poverty of his interlocutors. From 2009 the character also appears in commercials Wind.