L’AQUILA – We met him thanks to the television program “Colorado” of which he has become a pillar over the years. The Roman comedian Alberto Farina closes the second season of the Stand Up Comedy of the Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo with his show “It’s not my fault that I know like this.”
Known for his simplicity and sharp, sometimes surreal comedy, also given by his slightly wild appearance reminiscent of the suburban kids of the 70s, he transformed the Ridotto of the Municipal Theater into a chorus of laughter.
The protagonists are the life anecdotes of the actor, who graduated from Enzo Garinei’s “Ribalte” theater academy, and his extravagant family. Childhood in the Roman suburbs was for Alberto Farina picturesque inspiration motif. There is no shortage of stories of his life as a couple, of his work, before and after his success and, in keeping with the nature of an actor, of his job at a call center from which he was fired because he “talked too much on the phone”.
A detail of his comedy is certainly the introduction of imaginary places that form the backdrop to the adventures of the Roman comedian: “Cupinio”, an invented location, presumably in the Lavinio area, and “Tornioranza”, a neighborhood in the city of Rome, where feuds and crime they are the order of the day.
But also aunts, uncles, cousins, his doctor father and his professor mother, all become actors in Alberto’s adventures who thus becomes the man with the largest family in the world: “We are a really strange family!”. A strange and large family, which has ancient roots and distant ancestors, even to the time of Jesus.
He repeatedly underlines his difference from them, as if he were a kind of black sheep, the same one who ruined a friend’s wedding because of those muffins made with crops from his balcony, but he justifies himself like this: “It’s not my fault I feel like this!”.
He talks about the jokes cut from his television shows, those sued by various associations, and those suggested by his mother, a master of black humor.
At the end of the show, he takes advantage of the warm presence and availability of the public to shoot a promotional video for the next date in Lavinio, May 5th – Manzoni’s date, he says – which seems to be short of booked people. On the first take he gets the question wrong, on the second the phone was in photo mode, on the third, finally, he gets it!
People laugh, laugh a lot. The TSA Stand Up Comedy season ends with a lot of laughter and the comment at the exit, even though we were in L’Aquila, was: “Farina really makes tajià for me!”.
Aò, but has anyone in Pavona booked in the end?
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