Striscia la Notizia ends after 38 years. But there is a mystery… | Libero Quotidiano.it

And now? What will television (perhaps) orphaned of Striscia La Notizia be like? Perhaps. Because doubt is always mandatory when it comes to the free, serpentine, satirical voice, born from the genius of Antonio Ricci, reborn every time from its ashes but perhaps – as the experts say – this time surpassed by the social generation, by the continuous Instagram reels, YouTube videos, and memes that churn out at an almost artificially fast pace the content that for almost 38 years Ricci’s genius has delivered every evening from the screens of Canale 5. It was November 7, 1988, when the satirical news program debuted with a pilot season, lasting just one month and aired on Italia Uno. A “strip” of only five minutes, the natural offspring of the just-concluded Drive In, hosted by Gianfranco D’Angelo and Ezio Greggio who, then certainly unknowingly, took in their hands a legacy they would keep for almost four decades. With the cocker spaniel Has Fidanken ideally passing the baton to the big red puppet, a populist with a Ligurian accent: the Gabibbo who taught all of Italy terms used among the crêuze of Genoa like belin, besugo, rumenta.

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THE EXPLOSIVE BEGINNINGS
The experiment works, even with the now unbearable fake laughter in the background, taken straight from American TV series, and it already moves to the second edition on Canale 5. Ezio remains Ricci’s main standard-bearer but many hosts alternate. Because deep down everyone agrees that Striscia has an extra gear and that mixed bag, heir to the tradition of the best Milanese variety shows seated behind a counter and locked in the small screen lit up on the stages of millions and millions of Italians, really represented the future of comedy, satire and, perhaps more, of television tout court. Having definitively left the simple role of public service, in fact, TV could also slack off and give in to the desire and lasciviousness of showgirls who at the start of their careers were definitely more bombastic and provocative than those of today. Because if breasts and butts had already been legitimized in late night, Ricci deserves credit for having thrown them in everyone’s face at dinner time. Who doesn’t remember the buxom sexy nurse Angela Cavagna. And then obviously the showgirls, strictly one blonde and one brunette, who saw names of showgirls later established in the television scene: from Laura Freddi and Miriana Trevisan, among the best-matched pairs together with Elisabetta Canalis and Maddalena Corvaglia, up to the more recent Giorgia Palmas, Costanza Caracciolo, Federica Nargi, leaders of the generation of girls chosen by popular vote in the eponymous contest, which itself became a TV program during the summer. Books came out, like La repubblica delle veline in 2003 signed by Candida Morvillo. And even Franca Ciampi lashed out against the “stupid TV” that certainly could never count a program like Striscia La Notizia which meanwhile had become, not only with the tapirs delivered by Valerio Staffelli, an untamable scourge of celebrities but also an investigative program. A Report ante litteram that led, above all, to uncover one of the biggest, longest-lasting and most painful TV scams: the one perpetrated with tens of millions of lire and surreal slimming products by Wanna Marchi, Stefania Nobile and, the only one left unpunished, the Magician Do Nascimento.

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POLITICIANS ON THE SCAFFOLD
Meanwhile, Striscia continued to be the realm of deliberately incorrect parodies with the proverbial impersonations of the shapeshifter and refined artist Valerio Staffelli in the roles of Valentino, La Russa, Gino Paoli, Gianni Morandi and even Pope Francis. Preceded by American political characters renamed and dubbed in macaronic Italian: from the “Babbiona,” that is the wife of American president George Bush senior, to the Clinton family with a perpetually drunk dad Bill whipped by his wife and daughter “Cessa.” From the tic of then-premier Massimo D’Alema often caught blowing into his hands was born the fu fu dance but also neologisms that entered the vocabulary like “inciucio.” Among the hosts, Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti and then Ficarra and Picone, Gerry Scotti, all substitutes for the couple considered unbeatable, formed by Ezio Greggio and Enzo Iacchetti. With Gerry who, irony of history, was the only one to destroy the counter and today with the new overwhelming era of La Ruota della Fortuna he has definitively replaced him.

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