F.ar laughing on a stage without scenery with the power of words alone (and some costume). After all nothing is impossible for Lillo and Greg, than in their show now on Prime Video – taken from the show Gagmen Upgrade – they succeed in the meager enterprise of making people mess up with intelligence. By leveraging the paradox.
Lillo and Greg Comedy Showcomedy in line with the times
Directed by Cristiano D’Alisera (someone who knows about variety, he was also behind it The biggest show after the weekend by Fiorello), Lillo and Greg Comedy Show transports us to the world of gentle laughter. A grace that is not synonymous with sloppiness, but with great wit.
Lillo and Greg, aka Pasquale Petrolo and Claudio Gregori, are accustomed to that kind of comedy that never goes out of fashion because it adapts to the times. The Show is a sequence of sketches on everyday life and today’s society in which the effort of construction is not felt. But where reality the principle of surreality is highly cultivated.
One sketch after another
From superheroes in Fantastic 4 style – with Greg “elastic man” and Lillo “sloth” – to the parody of tear-jerking talk shows. Finally, to arrive at those that the listeners of 610 (reads “You are a zero”) know well: What, have you seen it?, Normalman (who here meets with Amnesy) or The throne of the rings. One sketch after another, with the two comedians time seems to fly. Provided, however, that the theater is in your strings. Not the coarse one of today’s comedians in search of immediate and often vulgar laughter, but the one that refers to a recent past where the protagonists were Cochi and Renato or Vianello and Tognazzi. If you are one of those who appreciate nonsense humor, the 80 minutes of the Show are a tonic against the wear and tear of boorish comedy.
“Lillo and Greg Comedy show”. (Courtesy Prime Video)
The guests
On stage, and in the dressing rooms that act as a cinematic link between one sketch and another, where Lillo is the predestined victim of a disreputable guy annoyed by his parking lot, Lillo and Greg are not alone.
Accompanying them are Vania Della Bidia, Marco Fiorini, Attilio Di Giovanni and Lallo Circosta, (Wolfgang Amadeus Manolo of 610 who is the disreputable type here. The 4 associates are backs and co-stars with the two Roman comedians who have a sixth sense to surround themselves with experienced comedians and to find talents. Just remember that from 610 among others, Virginia Raffaele, Valerio Lundini and Emanuela Fanelli passed by.
Lillo and Greg, who are they
Pasquale Petrolo and Claudio Gregori, both Roman, are former comic cartoonists. Finding themselves unemployed due to the bankruptcy of the publishing house for which they worked, they recycle their material making it the basis for demented rock of the Latte group & its derivatives that they founded in the early 90s. Some of their characters are due to their experiences in the world of comics, Normalman over all.
On television they debut a Hyenasare then in the fixed cast of the cult The eighth dwarf with Serena Dandini and Corrado Guzzanti on Rai2, and many other satirical programs, from The Scafroglia case to Speak with me. In the theater they landed in 1994 with 5740170 – 06 for those calling from outside Rome and they never leave him.
Also Lillo and Greg Comedy Show is the television transposition of a theatrical show. At the cinema, after so many films in which they were directed by others, they landed as director two years ago with DNA – Definitely not suitable. They replicated this year, together with Eros Puglielli, with The idols of women. Since 2003 I have been on the radio with 610a broadcast in which many of the characters come to life who then also live outside the radio airplay.
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