Sanremo 2020, good Amadeus and Fiorello to focus on self-irony. But the best joke was made by Rula Jebreal

So the best thing about last night was the ability of authors and conductors to absorb the infinite series of well-known controversy arisen in the previous days and turn them into comic ideas. Pretending that nothing had happened would have sounded a little hypocritical, face them counterproductive. The chosen path, that ofautoironia, of the teasing towards the gaffes of Amadeus proved to be wise and beneficial.

From there he started Fiorello as always very good, both in the guise of the peacemaker priest, and in the part of the friend interpreted with his best talent, the spontaneity. From there his funniest jokes about Rai and politics were born (in Sanremo who enters Papa exits Papeete). But that this was the winning move proved not so much Fiorello, whose spiritual nature cannot be doubted, but Rula Jebreal, who is certainly beautiful and intelligent, but I do not seem particularly inclined to joke. His instead the best joke of the evening, when to introduce himself to the public he suggested to Amadeus to “take a step forward”. How to bury in a second and four words all the controversies of the previous days.

The discordant note may seem like a fuss but given that we speak of television it cannot be overlooked. As part of a safe and pleasant direction with some ideas of originality to which we will return in the next few days, we ran away from mess. He was combined by the one who, mixed with the public, has the task of starting the applause. That this figure exists in all shows with audiences in the studio is well known. But seeing her framed is never beautiful. If then his gestures are particularly showy, frenzied as happened last night in the gallery, the matter becomes really embarrassing, everything looks fake. Especially since there was no need to hurry: the public really has fun with Fiorello, without anyone asking him. They will be quisquilie but it is better to avoid them, in the next evenings.

Then there would be a broader question. In the central moment of the evening, between 11 and midnight, when before Diletta Leotta and then Rula Jebreal recited their expected and non-trivial monologues and the whole cast of the film appeared on stage Gabriele MuccinoWell, in that hour of pleasant entertainment, the songs in the contest took ten minutes. Maybe a little bit for a song festival. But this is an old story and we will discuss it another time.

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