Pippo Baudo has no heir: stop looking for him

Whenever a person known as Pippo Baudo both the newspapers and the public is missing they hurry to find an heir immediatelyas if the certainty of the immortality of his work could somehow mitigate the bitterness of the loss. It has always happened and, punctually, the expectation almost never manages to translate into reality for a very simple reason: characters like Pippo Baudo are eternaland even if there were someone able to approach their figure will never replace them. Despite this, The hunt for the heir of those who leave us or those who withdraw is becoming a somewhat unpleasant sportespecially for the timing with which it is communicated. A few hours the death of Baudo, for example, the lawyer and friend Giorgio Assumma revealed to Courier that Pippo thought that his only heir was Stefano De Martinobecause “he understood the way of speaking to the populace”.

Leaving out the fiddling note on the populace – Everything could be said except that Pippo Baudo did not feed respect and esteem for the public who followed him -,, The impression is that this comparison was inappropriate not only for Baudo’s memory but also for De Martino himself, Forced to a comparison, you have been able to choose, he probably would never have agreed to put on the table. The problem of the heirs to be found at all costs does not concern, however, only the dead but also the living: how many times has it happened that the journalists asked an artist like Raffaella Carrà the name of who could have continued their work? And how many times have the artist in question felt embarrassed if not uncomfortable at the thought of electing his own adept at all costs?

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In this Amadeusquestioned by the press at the exit from the burning chamber of Pippo Baudo set up to the historic theater of the victories, caught the mark. When he was asked (again) the name of an heir to Pippo, Amadeus did not hold back: «There are no heirs of Pippo Baudo, as well as by Raffaella Carrà, Mike Bongiorno, Maurizio Costanzo and Enzo Tortora. They were unique. Today we are too hungry for speed: we have to calm down, who cares about the listening. Pippo’s television was a beautiful television. He was already ahead when he made varieties at the time. His Sanremo were truly ahead and revolutionary ». Amadeus is right: The great professionals are and will remain unique, And however much a talent can inspire themselves from their way of doing and being in the world the inheritance is a much more complex concept of a simple slogan, and it would be appropriate to remember it.