Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo are three Italian comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters who are Aldo Baglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo ˈbaʎʎo]; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈstɔrti]; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomo Poretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo poˈretti]; born 26 April 1956). Performing in cinema, theatre and television they are among the most successful and widely known Italian comedians.
Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo | |
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From left to right: Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo | |
Occupation | Comedians · actors · directors · screenwriters |
Years active | 1991–present |
Aldo Baglio | |
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Born | Cataldo Baglio 28 September 1958 |
Nationality | Italian |
Years active | 1982–present |
Giovanni Storti | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Italian |
Years active | 1982–present |
Giacomo Poretti | |
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Born | Giacomino Poretti 26 April 1956 |
Nationality | Italian |
Years active | 1983–present |
Their humor is typically Milanese, involving scenes that develop from a simple idea, and that are often centered on stereotypical differences between Northern and Southern Italy.
Biography
Early
Cataldo Baglio, better known simply as Aldo, was born in Palermo but grew up in Milan, where he met Giovanni Storti. The two both studied mime and dance at the School of Drama of the Teatro Arsenale of Milan. Giovanni graduated in 1977, and Aldo in 1978, and the two immediately took part in various cabaret shows including "E domani? " (1979) and "Il suggestibile" as well as performing in various television dramas - including Vacanze di Professione. Giacomo Poretti, meanwhile, was part of the cabaret duo "Hansel and Strudel" along with Marina Massironi who was his girlfriend at the time, and later his wife.
Theatre
The actress Marina Massironi, shoulder female comic trio nineties beginning of the new millennium. The trio as we know it now was formed in 1985, when Baglio and Storti met Poretti and invited him to make sketches with them. A few months later the trio who called themselves Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, performed in theater with Marina Massironi until 1991, in shows such as Summer Lightning (1992) (directed by Paola Galassi), Back to the Gerund (with Flavio Oreglio and Antonio Cornacchione), Air Storm (1993) (directed by Giancarlo Bozzo), The Shorts (1996) (directed by Arturo Brachetti), and The Circus of Paolo Rossi (1995) (directed by Giampiero Solari and starring Paolo Rossi). In 2005 act, along with Silvana Fallisi, entertainment Anplagghed directed by Arturo Brachetti. In 2012 the trio returns to the stage, with the theater tour Ammutta Muddica.
Television
On television, they made their first appearance in the summer of 1992 alongside the comedy duo Zuzzurro and Gaspare in TG holiday; in the same year took part in Up your head! Paolo Rossi. The following year they participated in Cielito lindo with Claudio Bisio and in the period 1995-1997 were in the cast of Mai dire Gol, transmission Responded Band. In 1999, the three have staged the play who Tel chi el telùn, filmed and broadcast by Channel 5 and directed by Arturo Brachetti. The transmission has been repeated several times in the following years. Are back with Responded Band in 2004, proposing sketch transmission Never say Sunday, while in 2008 are back on the air with two new plays, Anplagghed, broadcast by Channel 5 and Italy 1, and with Pur Purr Rid, which contained a mix of all the commitments of the trio, also participate to the last episode of Zelig. In 2009 they joined the cast of the transmission of Rai 3 What time ago. The December 25, 2013 they performed in a show at Radio Italian TV in the evening dedicated to the NPO Alice for Children. From 8 May 2014 Ammutta muddica is broadcast on Channel 5, divided into three events in prime time.
Cinema
Their big-screen debut was in 1997 with the film Three Men and a Leg, both of which are key players that directors, alongside Marina Massironi and Massimo Venier as a writer and director, in which they have repeated several typical sketch of their repertoire with a simple plot, thanks to which they have obtained the consent of the public and critical acclaim. [1]
The success of the first film was repeated in 1998 with That's Life, always on the side of Marina Massironi as in Ask Me If I'm Happy, released in 2000 and able to collect the more than seventy billion lire, entering the top five films Italian most profitable ever. In 2002 it was the turn of The Legend of Al, John and Jack, followed in 2004 by Do You Know Claudia?, with only Massimo Venier director and Paola Cortellesi female lead. In 2006 have taken up a special version of their eponymous play, called Anplagghed cinema. The comic trio then returned to the big screen December 19, 2008 with an episodic film, Il cosmo sul comò, this time under the direction of comedian Marcello Cesena. February 12, 2010 participated as narrative voices to the documentary Oceans 3D, while 17 December of the same year the film was released The Santa Claus Gang, the blockbuster of the season with over twenty-five million euros. After four years of absence from the halls, on 11 December 2014, the trio returned to the movies with The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler. In late 2016, it was followed by Fuga da Reuma Park, which received negativa response from critics and public.
After a three year hiatus, they returned in January 2020 with I Hate Summer that received critical acclaim.
Filmography
- Three Men and a Leg (1997)
- That's Life (1998)
- All the Moron's Men (1999)
- Ask Me If I'm Happy (2000)
- The Legend of Al, John and Jack (2002)
- Do You Know Claudia? (2004)
- Anplagghed al cinema (2006) – theatrical cut
- Il cosmo sul comò (2008)
- The Santa Claus Gang (2010)
- Ammutta muddica al cinema (2013) – theatrical cut
- The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler (2014)
- Fuga da Reuma Park (2017)
- I Hate Summer (2020)
Theatre
- I corti di Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo (1996): "The short [sketches] of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo";
- Tel chi el telùn (1999): litt., "Here it is the tarpaulin", as the word "telùn" is Milanese for "telone" (En. "tarpaulin", meaning the circus tent); the title is a pun on the phonetically similar word "terùn" (It. "terrone", a mocking-dispregiative word which indicates people from Southern Italy);
- Potevo rimanere offeso! (2001): "I could have been offended!"–the show is centered on their Swiss characters;
- Anplagghed (2006): a ironic transcription of "Unplugghed"
- Ammutta muddica (2012): Sicilian for "Spingi mollica" ("push the crumb"), which means "get busy!";
- The Best of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo (2016)
See also
Miscellaneous
- Silvana Fallisi (who has collaborated several times with the trio, for example in Ask me if I'm happy) is married to Aldo, while Marina Massironi was married to Giacomo. Giacomo is currently married to Daniela Cristofori, actress appeared in "Ask me if I'm happy" and "Do you know Claudia?". The two have a son named Emanuele.
- The trio, in the form of comics, appeared in Topolino, an Italian comics book nº 2769, in the history of Donald Duck & Fethry Duck in ... Three ducks inside a cinema under the name parodied Baldo, Gionni and Jack, 17 December 2008, two days before the 'theatrical release of The cosmos on the dresser.
- The title of their film The gang of Santas was chosen by their fans on Facebook.
- All three are fans of Inter Milan.
- To usually refer to Giacomo's supposed baseness and big nose, to Giovanni's ugliness and Aldo's stupidity and status of italian from the South are the three most used catchphrases of their comedy.
Height of comedians: Aldo is 175 cm tall, Giovanni 165 cm and Giacomo 158 cm.
External links
Media related to Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo at Wikimedia Commons