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Le Colic, our video interview (semi-serious) with the brothers of the web

An almost anachronistic passage in today’s hyper-technological society. Fabrizio and Claudio Colica, which its origins have transformed into a stage name – Colic, they are called on the web -, they decided to abandon, albeit temporarily, Youtube to tell about themselves through the pages of a book. Like stomach ache (Mondadori Electa 2021, pp. 240, € 15.10) is the semi-serious story of a professional partnership, which arose in unsuspecting times. “We are probably comedians because of our father,” Le Coliche told us, in a video interview that reflects the spirit of their first autobiography.

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By agreements, we should have recorded something infinitely simpler: one of the many digital conversations that the pandemic has forced us to. Fabrizio and Claudio Colica, however, came to our aid. “We do it”, they promised us, lending themselves to staging – with a lot of voiceover that follows ours – the interactive interview that Covid-19 prevented us from doing. “We understood that our being brothers could have turned into a professional partnership when our father, with the camera, filmed us and we ended up improvising sketches”, they said, recalling the times when, “At six and eight years old, we staged “The old woman who fucked the church”: a story that has nothing to do with porn “, they swore, exorcising the bit of embarrassment with the imitation of the Bagpipers: a stability of verses and notes that would make envy of Peter Griffin.

Fabrizio and Claudio Colica lent themselves to the game, retracing a part of the book and of their career for us. There was no shortage of jokes, and neither did seriousness. Because in the book, inserted between childhood memories and confession between brothers, there is the story of two souls who, in their own evolution, have dealt with bullies, with parents at first unable to accept their son’s homosexuality, with veganism and prejudices. «I must say that I have never experienced social pressures. In saying “I love this man”, I was communicating good news and I found in front of me people ready to share this good news. I realize, however, that when my parents were born and raised there was not this freedom, this openness. It is not a religious or political fact, but still there are many difficulties in accepting it “, explained Fabrizio Colica who, together with his brother, then liquidated the”Legend Lol – Who laughs is out. There is a rumor that we want to be protagonists of the second season. Obviously, we have been called, but we are the only ones who have not yet known about it ».

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