Galeazzi, Nicola Savino and imitations: “In life he wasn’t rough as I used to”

“Now that Giampiero is gone, I have a sense of guilt: in real life he was not so rude, crude, gruff, trivial as I painted him in my imitations. If anything he was nice, cynical, sarcastic, inside and sometimes even out of bounds, but satire is always an exaggeration of reality, that’s how it works … “. This is what the actor and TV presenter Nicola Savino confesses to AdnKronos who has in his professional game bag many imitations of the sports journalist Giampiero Galeazzi, who died today at the age of 75. “Among other things, when we met, he kindly scolded me and with a smile he said to me ‘Ahò! You speak Roman dialect, but I know’ de Verbania … ‘, ironically evoking his Piedmontese origins”, again Savino reports. , underlining that “Galeazzi was very competent and very witty: he was the first, even preceding Gialappa’s, to understand that you could entertain about sport and in particular treat a ‘sacred’ topic for Italians such as football lightly, even laughing about it , combining competence and irony, making the spirit of a reality that too often caused clashes and even violence “. For Savino,” Giampiero’s fundamental characteristic was versatility, in every sense: from a sporting point of view, combining great competence on football, tennis, rowing; and from a professional point of view by combining the skills of a sports journalist with the skills of conducting a show, demonstrating that they have a great presence t elevisiva. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)