Is LOL 2 really less funny than the first season?

Since Prime Video made available the first four episodes of the second season of LOL – Who laughs is out, The Internet was overwhelmed by a squad tsunami that could easily be summarized as follows: there are those who adored it and those who hated it. According to some, in fact, the problem is that the level of this edition would not even be remotely comparable to that of the first, but are we really sure that this corresponds to the truth? Let’s start from an assumption: LOL it’s a very young program, with less than two years of life. The first season came at a very particular moment in our lives, between semi-lockdowns and restrictions, inevitably leading us to become passionate about one of the few programs able to offer a comic alternative to the information pervading the generalist. without making us feel guilty for giving us a smile in front of the computer. The idea, as well as the cast recruited by Prime Video – we have already said that if Rai had the same resources at the next Sanremo it would take the Bezos space shuttle and make it glide directly on the roof of the Hotel Globo, right? -, managed to captivate the audience for the elementary nature of the premises and the freshness of the message.

In LOL 2 the pattern is repeated with a cast, if you like, even richer than the first in terms of ninety appearances – like Corrado Guzzanti, who is worth every penny of his contract if not more -, and with a more refined formula for one simple reason. Which? The fact that, in this round, the participants are no longer thrown into disarray, but well aware of what they have to do once the trumpets have started to be able not only to winbut above all to remain impressed in the public – think, for example, of Lillo, who did not win LOL but which, thanks to Posaman and his catchphrase «Sono Lillo», has achieved a much more explosive popularity than the winner Ciro Priello -. In fact, the key is always the same: to set up some gimmicks that can guarantee those who think them the genius for having made and executed them. In this, it is evident that many comedians have an extra gear, giving pearls of imperishable memory such as Virginia Raffaele who, disguised as Marina Abramović, replicates the performance of the MoMA in New York by putting on a “broom!” so, suddenly, or like the unveiled photograph of the Forest wizard which literally made Maria Di Biase’s resistance waver.

Corrado Guzzanti, with his wardrobe overflowing with characters – Vulvia above all – and impromptu jokes like “What do you want to have Saturn against?” ‘I’m 800 million kilometers away, but chittse’ ncula “competes in a separate championship, while the other competitors of LOL they defend themselves as they can, who better and who worse. Extraordinary Maccio Capatonda who, with his set voice, throws well-settled puns capable of making even the most stolid ones tremble, as does the sweet Maria Di Biase, who made us double up just for having said that he recognized Raffaele by the “c * lo”. Max Angioni defends himself well while others, such as Tess Masazza, Diana Del Bufalo and the Pozzolis, struggle to find their own figure, showing us that, despite LOL has now become a cult phenomenon, not everyone has managed to find the best way to exploit their potential. Ultimately, therefore, it is not LOL to be less fun: we are more experienced in receiving it and it is the comedians who are more aware than they were in the first season, giving us the impression that everything is much more prepared and, in some ways, less spontaneous. It’s television, baby.

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