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Daniele Luttazzi

Daniele Luttazzi (born January 26, 1961), real name Daniele Fabbri, is an Italian theater actor, writer, satirist, illustrator and singer/songwriter. His stage name is a homage to musician and actor Lelio Luttazzi. His favourite topics are politics, religion, sex and death.

He is also famous as in 2002 he was effectively banned from RAI, the Italian public broadcasting company, by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was angry because Luttazzi, at that time host of Satyricon, a raunchy late night comedy show, interviewed Marco Travaglio, the author of a book that pointed at the unknown origins Mr. Berlusconi's wealth as potential links with the Mafia. Nowadays he only works in theatres. He is often cited by the European press (i.e. The Economist, Le Monde, El Pais) as proof of Mr. Berlusconi's censorship of the opposition. In addition to writing and performing monologues and theatre works, he occasionally writes political and satirical essays for Micromega and il manifesto, two left-wing periodicals.

Luttazzi is also interested in drawing, with a selection of his graphical works published as a book called Capolavori (Masterpieces). Daniele Luttazzi is also a musician: as of 2007, he released two CDs, named respectively Money for Dope and School is Boring, in which he sings in English.

Biography

Luttazzi was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, province of Rimini. He began his comic career performing satirical monologues in theatre shows. In 1994 he performed characters in the popular comedy show Mai dire Gol (Never Say Goal), aired by Italia 1.

In 1988, his monologue won an award in a comedy contest held at Rome's Teatro Sistina.

In 1998, he began his first one-man show, called Barracuda. Luttazzi did monologues about recent news, interviews with famous showbiz and political personalities, and skits for adult audiences. The same formula was then adopted for his next TV show, called Satyricon, aired by the public channel Rai Due.

In March 2001, Luttazzi interviewed journalist Marco Travaglio about the contents of his book "L'odore dei soldi" (The scent of Money). Topic: the mysterious origins of Berlusconi's money. "Satyricon" was suspended, Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset, Fininvest and the Forza Italia party sued Luttazzi and Travaglio for defamation, asking them 40 billions lire (about 20 million euros). Luttazzi and Travaglio won all the trials.

In 2002, Berlusconi said that Luttazzi, the journalist Enzo Biagi (the Italian analogous of Walter Cronkite) and the anchorman Michele Santoro made "a criminal use of public tv" (Rai, the State owned tv company) so Berlusconi "hoped this thing couldn't happen again." This action has since then been named the Editto Bulgaro, and had an harsh impact on the careers of those three men. Since the banning, Luttazzi is still not working in Rai, his once huge tv share notwithstanding.

After television, Luttazzi concentrated on theatre shows and bookwriting.

Luttazzi returned on tv in 2007 with the new satyrical programme "Decameron: Politica, Sesso, Religione e Morte" (Decameron: Politics, Sex, Religion and Death) for the small national private channel La7. He was suspended again after the taping of the sixth episode of the show (a monologue about the Pope's new encyclical).[1][2] [unreliable source?]

Plagiarism

Luttazzi has been accused of having plagiarised many jokes from comedians such as George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Larry Miller, Chris Rock and Bill Hicks[3][4]. He stated on his personal blog that he adds unoriginal material to his work as a "treasure hunt" for his fans[5], even though he previously declared that the material for his shows was original[6].

As June 2010, more than 500 jokes have been found copied from other comedians' shows[3][7]. Matteo Molinari, an italian joke writer who currently lives in Los Angeles, is contacting various comedians whose jokes have been supposedly plagiarised to get their opinion on the controversy.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "LA7 - Eventi". Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  2. ^ Luttazzi exclusive interview with Articolo21 commenting on the announcement "Su La7 avrò carta bianca. Niente controlli, senno' che satira è?". Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  3. ^ a b "La Rete contro Luttazzi: "Copia" I dubbi dei fan, il tam-tam cresce - Repubblica.it". Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  4. ^ "Luttazzi copia - Parte 1". Retrieved 2010-06-11.
  5. ^ "Caccia al Tesoro - Daniele Luttazzi news". Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  6. ^ "LETTERE - Repubblica.it". Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  7. ^ "My Voice: Luttazzi's Plagiarized Jokes (I plagi)". Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  8. ^ "C'è una sup-posta per Luttazzi - dagospia.it". Retrieved 2010-06-12.

External links

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