“It’s not that you’re a pain in the ass, it’s that you just say useless things”

A quiet pre-election weekend for Vittorio Sgarbi. Fear, if anything, is for David Porec And Antonella Boralevi. The professor, candidate with FdI for the European elections, connects with The blowing air on La7: placid, smiling, with the pleasant Gulf of Naples in the background. Ideal situation to (nicely) punch the host. «I’m sending you my social card, so you can come here and sunbathe, because it is the most useful thing you can do». “Are you telling me to sunbathe so I don’t break my balls?” Parenzo replies in kind. «It’s not that you’re a pain in the ass, it’s that you always say useless things. You talk about social cards… But talk about something that has to do with ideas, with thought, with beauty. Shut off the show and come here, I’ll tell Cairo to pay you anyway. I listen to the empty television more than you.”

Finished? No, as soon as it started: «You managed to align yourself with the general stupidity of the other hosts, you are very balanced. TO The mosquito you had a very polemical and biased tone, but there you like everything and it shows you have a profound disgust for politics and for the people in front of you, you consider them inferior to you and maybe they are too. Being inferior to you is almost impossible.” Nervous laughter in the studio.

“But you’re good, I was amazed by your ability to overcome your natural inabilities.” Boralevi returns to the merits of the discussion: «Sorry Vittorio, the social card is a topic that interests at least one Italian in ten. You’re saying something funny, but it’s not serious!’ «I don’t know who you are but you’re not here to lecture me about seriousness! – Sgarbi replies blindly -, they are jokes.” “We’re not at the theater,” the writer scolds him. «TV is great theatre. I do mine and you do yours, you’ve been doing theater all your life!