sabato 6 giugno 2009

The satirists’ manifesto

Beppe Grillo, Italy’s most famous comedian, appeared suddenly in the midst of the audience. He moved about the people, as he likes to do, but even so, the size of the crowd meant that most of his fans, who had come out on a sharp, late-January night to fill the covered stadium of the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, followed him on one of three huge screens. Grillo has been 40 years in show business and has become rich on it. Thick grey hair about his face, white beard waggling, he strode around the audience, his energy that of a man of 30 (he will be 61 next month). He is funny, but he’s not really a comedian any more. He is a political activist with a show – and a campaign.
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