Panariello will certainly do Sanremo. Indeed, he assures that he does not want his friend Carlo Conti to lack “support” and “support”. While the festival team is still to be defined and Conti remains unbuttoned, the artist, fresh from Pope Francis’ audience in the Sala Clementina with around a hundred actors and comedians from all over the world, stops to comment on that moment with international press and questions inevitably surface about the most important singing event in Italy, capable of glueing three generations of spectators to television.
Tell us: in Sanremo next year?
«I will certainly have to give this boy a leap and I will certainly have to give him a hand, some support».
With what role?
«We certainly won’t do it every evening, but we’ll do a little trip to annoy him… eh, we’ll do that. My role? I would like to be a valet, I hope so. I heard there will be an after-festival but when we’re finished we’ll say goodbye and goodnight and the end credits.”
Maybe he will be able to bring the Pope to Sanremo too?
«Ah believe me, this is a Pontiff who could really do something like this, after all he is a Pope capable of surprising us».
It would be interesting, but did you happen to mention it to him when you greeted him in the Clementine Hall after the hearing?
«Noooo, but I swear that I will suggest it to Carlo, in fact when I go I will tell him that the Pope has asked to invite him» (laughs)
What did you think of the hearing?
«Francis entrusted us with words that touch us deeply because our mission in the world is to make people laugh and it is the truth. It was a wonderful, beautiful experience for me.”
Francis maintains that one can satirize God naturally without offending anyone…
«He said so. From this day on, I wouldn’t want comedians to start making jokes about God and religion. There needs to be a certain respect for everyone. However, I have no doubt that God is a person who accepts humor.”
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