La Pennicanza: when it starts, time, meaning, Fiorello

Tall ready for the return of Fiorello (together with Biggio) and his radio show Pennicance which starts again today on Rai Radio 2 at 1.45pm. There was a preview last night on Rai 1 after the 8.00 pm Tg1 with a 5-minute show before Your business. A surprise incursion that will perhaps be the prelude to Fiorello’s return to TV.

There Pennicance: the return of Fiorello and Biggio’s program on Rai Radio2, time and when it starts

After announcing his return last September, Fiorello and Biggio return to entertain the Radio Radio2 audience with Pennicancean all-sketch and improvisation comedy show that will be broadcast from Monday to Friday from 1.45pm to 2.30pm. For those who can’t follow it, the following day of broadcast, at 7.00 in the morning and again on Radio 2, it is expected a best of of the titled episode The Reveille. All episodes will then be available on-demand on RaiPlay.

The program returns after the “experimental” broadcast last spring, which lasted three weeks and, at his side, Fiorello once again wanted Biggio. Companion of adventures and laughter also in the enormously successful TV program Long live Rai2! broadcast until May last year. The format is based above all on improvisation, with a “work in progress” tone which allows the two conductors to move freely between current events, imitations, telephone calls to important guests and moments of spontaneous comedy.

Fiorello’s statements and the meaning of the word “pennicanza”

On his social channelsin a live broadcast last September from a restaurant in Trastevere, Fiorello and Biggio anticipated something about his return to radio of their program.

«We will be a breath of fresh air” promised the Sicilian showman «When I read that Rai is about to buy Ok the price is right I told myself we had to go back. Pennicance it will be like last spring and it must remain that waywe don’t have to prepare anything, woe betide anyone who comes with an idea. The periods are very bad so we have to return, we need a window of lightness». Fiorello also added that he is thinking of bring the program to the ATP Tennis Finals in Turin from 9 to 16 November.

For those who are not familiar with Roman slang, the term “pennicanza” is a neologism coined by Fiorello himself, inspired by the word “pennica”a very widespread term in the Roman dialect that indicates the classic afternoon nap after lunch. The etymology of the term is particularly curious: “pennica” in fact derives from Latin pendicularwhich means “to be suspended” or “to lean.”