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Because «When I grow up» and Alessandro Cattelan deserve trust

We always complain about seeing the same things and then, as soon as someone tries to imagine something different, we feel disoriented, lost, finding ourselves incredibly attached to that dust we thought we were allergic to. Alessandro Cattelan, who has been a conductor for twenty years and who is anything but a rookie, he tried: his of the big, two event evenings broadcast live on the first network Sunday 19 and Sunday 26 September, is a variety that has tried to graft the language of Sky on Raiuno without particular precautions for “Raiuno’s public” who, reading certain comments on Twitter, seems like a sort of protected species that must be protected from no one knows what.

Because, you know, mentioning BTS in prime time and trying to imitate Gary Barlow on stage could lead to self-combustion a spectator who, according to common feeling, should lose the pitcher every time he does not see Carlo Conti on TV.

A little bit of trust in the public, however, we should also have it. As well as in the conductors who, like Cattelan, play with the quotes of Martin Scorsese (in the introductory clip of of the big, Conti takes on for a moment the role that was Matthew McConaughey in that masterpiece he was The Wolf of Wall Street), mix the most popular quizzes by creating spin-offs such as “I soliti paracchi”, and put together a musical number to the tune of “Alessandro, this is Rai”. of the big, which was welcomed even before going on the air with the frenzied enthusiasm of those who couldn’t wait for Rai to “rejuvenate” and with the skepticism of those who were convinced regardless that Rai was not a thing for Cattelan, lulled for ten years by a reassuring and protected bubble like that of Sky, has put up a lot of meat on the fire: medleys, monologues, tributes , the disguises, the gags, the interviews at the table and even the driving lessons.

Something worked better (like the gag with Antonella Clerici and Elodie’s tribute to Raffaella Carrà), something worked less (like the disguises of the boy bands together with Volo), but it certainly cannot be denied that Rai has experimented and that Cattalan is a professional. Someone wrote that of the big is a kind of EPCC – And then there is Cattelan, the late show that Cattelan built on Sky Uno modeling his idols Letterman, Fallon and Kimmel, lasting two and a half hours, and perhaps he is right: it is a very written show, partly paralyzed by the anxiety of the debut ( who wouldn’t have it?), but capable of melting in the freest and most improvised moments. Like the one in which Antonella Clerici who, in the adjoining studio of It is always noon, he spread the sauce on Cattelan’s cheeks “because on Raiuno you have to get dirty with sauce” and he exclaimed “ca ** o” because the sauce was hot: it was perhaps the moment in which the conductor let himself go an evening that, between Mengoni, Argentero, Bonolis, Conti and Blanco, tried to please everyone, especially the Millennials who follow Cattelan on Instagram and who don’t hang out too often on Raiuno. The challenge, after all, was this: to try to do something different for an audience that, in 2021, could for once loosen the bridle and trust who is on the other side. Let’s remember the next time we read “always the same names, always the same old story, what a beard, what a bore.”

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