The world belongs to comedians. A transgression lesson from Saverio Raimondo

The phase is complicated both for the correct and for the incorrect, obviously speaking of those who expressly profess correctness or its opposite in public behaviour, in artistic expression, in political stances. The former know that they have exaggerated a bit and feel the antipathy build up, the premise of hatred and contempt, which would still not be such serious things if they did not veer, in turn, towards boredom and annoyance. The latter begin to feel the breath of the competitors, of a plethora of wrongdoers, many now in positions of power or close to power, who can be nominated or have already been nominated in various offices and directorates, some directly in government. The two camps have their problems and, in Italy, suffer their share of somewhat clumsy imitation of imported models. All this to say that making people laugh about correctness or with incorrectness, there is some difference between the two operations, it’s not that simple. Try Saverio Raimondo, on tour around Italy, with his Live in spaces suitable for stand up comedians, in Milan on the last date, at the Blue Note on March 26th. Caught between the contingent problems we mentioned, Raimondo tries a release route, as if his performances were an extension of those final scenes of certain films in which after quarrels, grumbling, lies and silences, everything is finally said to each other, with mutual confessions that destroy the residue of dramatic tension but illuminate everyone’s conscience , resolve terrible tensions and empty arsenals of teasing and provocations. “A couple of rather big terms are inconvenient – ​​he tells us – because the cultural and anthropological role of comedy has always been that of saying what cannot be said. That is what the comedian is for, if it is needed, to give vent to what we cannot socially affirm but which, whether we like it or not, we think. Somewhere that thought lurks within us and someone must also help to let it vent, so that that thought doesn’t hatch and find no other kind of outlet. So I’m not politically correct on stage, to put it simply.”