A double interview with Pius and Amedeoat the registry office Pio D’Antino And Amedeo Griecothe irreverent Italian comic duo working for Mediaset and also making a big splash in the cinema. A double interview published on Corriere della Sera in which he recalls, in the introduction, how the two met when they were 10 years old. Both from Foggia, both born in 1983.
And Amedeo explains with his usual biting irony: “Pio was a round creature, it is not known how he managed to walk“. And Pio: “He, on the other hand, was a ball of black fur”. “I developed quickly, thanks to Colpo Grosso”, Amedeo replies.
Pio again recalls how they were “two atypical children, in terms of physicality and origin, we soon understood that they would never take us seriously. First job: sell the blessed palmsalready three months before Easter. And Amedeo: “Which were more than anything else the palms of Benedetto, the guy who helped us cut them. We went door to door. Payment in black.”
So the two confirm a rumor, namely that they are born in the same maternity ward, obviously in Foggia, five days apartin two neighboring cribs. Pio assures that it is all true, “we discovered it twelve years ago”. And Amedeo, to reply to the journalist that he suspects that it is a lie to make fun of journalists, explains: “There is a photothe mothers found it, a carrambata, it also appears in the acronym of emigrant“. In short, the case is closed.
Their most famous characters, precisely those of Emigratis, are two incorrigible freeloaders. But who inspired you? And Pio reveals: “To two Foggia fans met on the bus. Our peasant is a tender ignoramus who adapts to the world as best he can, but hides his dignity, his goodness”. So Amedeo: “Let’s be strong with the strong, not with the weak. People see us as two Robin Hoods. We steal from the rich to give to the poor: us “, he concludes.
