Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo

Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo
Medium	Film television theatre
Years active	1991–present
Genres	Sketch comedy character comedy blue comedy surreal humor
Subject(s)	Everyday life pop culture Italian culture northern-southern Italy differences

Aldo Baglio
Baglio in 2007
Born	Cataldo Baglio (1958-09-28) 28 September 1958 Palermo, Italy

Giovanni Storti
Storti in 2017
Born	(1957-02-20) 20 February 1957 Milan, Italy

Giacomo Poretti
Poretti in 2012
Born	Giacomino Poretti (1956-04-26) 26 April 1956 Villa Cortese, province of Milan, Italy

Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, comprising Cataldo "Aldo" Baglio (Italian: [ˈaldo ˈbaʎʎo]; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈstɔrti]; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomino "Giacomo" Poretti (Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo poˈretti]; born 26 April 1956). They have performed in movies, theatres, and television, and are very well known in Italy.

Their humor is typically Milanese, with scenes that develop from a simple idea and that often center on stereotypical differences between northern and southern Italy.

Biography

Early

Cataldo Baglio, known as Aldo, was born in Palermo but grew up in Milan, where he met Giovanni Storti. They both studied mime and dance at the school of drama of Milan's Teatro Arsenale. Baglio graduated in 1977, and Storti in 1978, and both soon joined cabaret shows, including E domani? (1979) and Il suggestibile, as well as performing in various television dramas, including Vacanze di professione. Poretti, meanwhile, was part of the cabaret duo "Hansel and Strudel" along with Marina Massironi, who was his girlfriend at the time, and later his wife.

Theatre

The trio formed in 1985 when Baglio and Storti met Poretti and invited him to join them. From 1991 the trio—now called Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo—performed in theatres with Massironi. They featured in shows such as Summer Lightning (1992, directed by Paola Galassi), Back to the Gerund (with Flavio Oreglio and Antonio Cornacchione), Air Storm (1993, directed by Giancarlo Bozzo), The Shorts (1996, directed by Arturo Brachetti), and The Circus of Paolo Rossi (1995, directed by Giampiero Solari and starring Paolo Rossi).

Actress Massironi originally joined the comic trio as a comedic foil. In the 2006 show Anplagghed (directed by Arturo Brachetti), Massironi was replaced by Silvana Fallisi, Aldo's wife. In 2012 the trio returned to the stage with the theatre tour Ammutta Muddica.

Television

Their first television appearance was in the summer of 1992 in TG delle vacanze alongside the comedy duo Zuzzurro and Gaspare. The same year, they took part in Su la testa!, hosted by Paolo Rossi. During 1993, they participated in cielito lindo with Claudio Bisio, and in the period 1995–1997, they were in the cast of Mai dire Gol, a TV show hosted by Gialappa's band.

The play Tel chi el telùn, was filmed and broadcast by Canale 5 in 1999, directed by Arturo Brachetti, and repeated several times in subsequent years. In 2004, the trio joined with Gialappa's band and made the sketch show Mai dire domenica. In 2008 they returned with two new plays: Anplagghed, broadcast by Canale 5 and Italia 1; and Pur Purr Rid, which contained a mixture of all the trio's performances. In 2009 they joined the cast of the talk show on Rai 3 Che tempo che fa. On 25 December 2013, they performed in a show for Radioitalia dedicated to the non-profit organisation Alice for Children. From 8 May 2014 Ammutta muddica was broadcast on Canale 5 at prime time.

Cinema

Their big-screen debut was in 1997 with the film Three Men and a Leg, alongside Marina Massironi and Massimo Venier as writer and director. The film was acclaimed by both the public and critics.

The success of this first film was repeated in 1998 with That's Life, again with Massironi, and in 2000 with Ask Me If I'm Happy, which took more than seventy billion Italian lira at the box office, and was one of five most profitable Italian movies. In 2002 they released The Legend of Al, John and Jack, followed in 2004 by Do You Know Claudia?, with Venier as director and Paola Cortellesi as the female lead.

A version of their eponymous play was released in 2006, called Anplagghed al cinema. The comic trio returned to the big screen on 19 December 2008 with Il cosmo sul comò, under the direction of comedian Marcello Cesena. On 12 February 2010, they were voice actors in the documentary Oceans 3D; then on 17 December 2010, they released The Santa Claus Gang, which became the blockbuster of the season, taking more than twenty-five million euros.

In December 2014, they returned with The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler, followed in late 2016 by Fuga da Reuma Park. Three years later, in January 2020, they released I Hate Summer to critical acclaim.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role(s)			Notes
		Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo
1988	Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan	Man at restaurant	Police officer	None
1997	Three Men and a Leg	Aldo / Al / Dracula	Giovanni / John / Gino	Giacomo / Jack / Michele	Also writers and directors
1998	That's Life	Aldo / Al	Giovanni / John	Giacomo / Jack
1999	All the Moron's Men	Sakato	Pocoto	Mamoto
2000	Ask Me If I'm Happy	Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo	Also writers and directors
2002	The Legend of Al, John and Jack	Al Caruso	John La Paglia	Jack La Paglia
2004	Do You Know Claudia?	Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo	Also writers
2006	Anplagghed al cinema	Themself			Documentary
2008	Il cosmo sul comò	Puk	Tsu'Nam	Pin	Also writers
2009	OceanWorld 3D	Narrators (voice)			Italian voice-over
	Baarìa	Business man	None
2010	The Santa Claus Gang	Aldo	Dr. Storti	Dr. Poretti	Also writers
2013	Ammutta muddica al cinema	Themself
	Ci vuole un gran fisico	Taxi driver	Guardian angel	Client
2014	The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler	Aldo / Samir	Giovanni	Dr. Giacomo Poretti	Also writers and directors
2016	Fuga da Reuma Park	Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo
2017	Couch Potatoes	None	Doctor	None
	Lasciati andare	None		Mr. Biraghi
2018	Vengo anch'io	Police officer	None
2019	Scappo a casa	Michele	None
2020	I Hate Summer	Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo	Also writers
2021	Boys	None	Carlo	None
2022	The wedding days	Aldo	Giovanni	Giacomo	Also writers
	Le voci sole	None	Giovanni	None
	Tutti a bordo	None	Claudio	None
	A Breath of Fresh Air	Salvo	None

Theatre

• I corti di Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo (1996): lit. 'The short sketches of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo'.
• Tel chi el telùn (1999): lit. 'Here is the tarpaulin'; the word telùn is Milanese for telone, or tarpaulin, meaning 'the circus tent'. The title is a pun on the phonetically similar word terùn (lit. 'terrone', a deprecating word for people from southern Italy).
• Potevo rimanere offeso! (2001): lit. 'I could have been offended!' – a show centered on their Swiss characters.
• Anplagghed (2006): an ironic transcription of 'unplugged'.
• Ammutta muddica (2012): Sicilian for spingi mollica (lit. 'push the crumb'), which means 'get busy'.
• The Best of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo (2016).

Relationships

Baglio is married to Silvana Fallisi, who collaborated several times with the trio, and appeared in Ask Me if I'm Happy. Poretti was married to Marina Massironi from 1986 to 1990, and is currently married to Daniela Cristofori, an actress who appeared in Ask Me If I'm Happy and Do You Know Claudia?. Poretti and Cristofori have a son named Emanuele.

Honours

Ambrogino d'oro - Medaglia d'oro - ribbon for ordinary uniform	Ambrogino d'oro - Medaglia d'oro
	— Milan, 7 dicembre 2010

See also

Media related to Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo at Wikimedia Commons

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