“It is the last week of running Striscia la Notizia. It’s the last year ». The announcement of Ficarra and Picone live during last Monday’s episode, it sounded like unexpected news. At the helm for 15 years, the Sicilian duo loved by the viewers of the satirical news channel of Canale5, has thus put an end to the program of Antonio Ricci.
Surprise announcement, but did you already know this before starting the edition?
F. Yes, despite having lived a wonderful and fulfilling experience, humanly and professionally. We felt the need to try to understand what’s around the corner.
P. And therefore solidarity with Ficarra: the only safe project around the corner that is left to him now, is me (laughs, ed).
And Ricci?
It made us feel important within the Strip. Until the end he refused to think: “You can make the announcement live, but I will not see the episode. So for me it doesn’t exist ”.
From Savino to the common people, they wrote to you sorry.
We did Strip with sincerity. As if we were the spectators from home, experiencing the same emotions as the spectator. If a service outrages you, it outrages us. So if it’s fun. Satire, provocation, irony and above all a lot of healthy self-irony.
You angered Sgarbi, ironic about Salvini, broke the news of Berlusconi’s elections, talked about the mafia. The most difficult moment?
When humanity is told. As in the economic and historical period we are experiencing. We have a responsibility to give people some fun.
Is politics doing enough?
P. Here I enter in toy soldier mode. We are in a situation that no one would have imagined. Mistakes are being made, there are various discussions.
F. There are many categories that are suffering. We hope for the contribution of everyone, including the opposition, to get out of this terrible story.
Curiosity: have you ever asked Grillo for copyright on “strip citizens”?
He used it without permission. Citizens, citizens, but our citizens have been stolen… (laughs, ed).
What happens after Striscia? Cinema, TV …
… Or theater, which we hope to return soon. We had a tour full of dates that got canceled.
Tour for 26 years together of “mutual disregard”, write on Twitter.
F. And on social media you don’t lie (laughs, ed)
P. We are keyboard lions.
Who is the lion: Salvo or Valentino?
F. You will never know.
P. Obvious answer: Salvo writes posts you don’t like. The posts you like, however, we write them together.
50 years next year, together make a century.
But that divided by four, our intelligence quotient, is twenty-five. We are still young.
Will you celebrate with a “second Christmas”, perhaps repeating the receipts (the best of 2019 with over 16 million) at the box office of your latest film?
Who knows. We only bother cinema when we have an idea.
Nanni Moretti used to say that “Satire has no masters”: if Rai calls you what do you answer? It always depends on the idea.
Your motto?
F. Never agree with Picone.
P. None. After Ficarra’s answer, I was left without.
Last updated: Wednesday 2 December 2020, 08:50
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