Sanremo 2022: Checco Zalone is the super guest

Every time a comedian is recruited in Sanremo, he doesn’t know whether to jump for joy or sweat. Few stages have, in fact, the power to elevate or destroy a career like that of the Ariston but, on the other hand, not trying it would mean losing at the start. This year, to try the coup, is the king of the box office in our house, the professional who managed to conquer the public thanks to the mask of the ignorant but soft-hearted Italian who managed to explain the country much better than certain committed intellectuals: Checco Zalone. In fact, he will be the super guest of one of the five evenings of the Sanremo Festival 2022, third edition conducted by Amadeus and second threatened by the virus and contagions, with the hope that the risk of an empty theater already experienced in 2021 will be avoided.

Zalone, on TV, has always given himself little: to attendance at any cost he preferred, on the small and large screen, a presence sipped which allowed him to come back when he had something interesting to say. As in the case of Tolo Tolo, the most effective and cutting-edge film about immigrants’ landings than a report by Report, e Vaccinated, the funny video with Oscar winner Helen Mirren to convince Italians to book the first dose. “Have you finished paying the mortgage?” After that you won’t work anymore », jokes Zalone in the video posted by Amadeus through which he made known his involvement in Sanremo, a bullet that the comedian had managed to dodge all this time.

In 2019, when the rumor of his possible involvement spread, Luca Medici – this is the real name of Checco Zalone – immediately got his hands on: “I don’t have the courage to go to the Ariston, it’s a very difficult stage”, he had said in an interview on the broadcast of Radio 2 The Lunatic. «I’m shy, reluctant to give interviews, not because I’m snobbish but because I think the public deserves interesting answers. They often think that mine is a strategy, that I never release statements or interviews because I’m a snob, but that’s not the case “. We don’t know what Luca Medici will prepare in Sanremo, just as we do not know if it will be able to avoid famous accidents that occurred in the past, like the whistles that blocked Crozza in 2013, the frost in the hall during Panariello’s monologue in 2006, and the lukewarm reception of the press for Bisio’s performance in 2019. If in doubt, a verse from that masterpiece of «La prima Repubblica And the fear passes.