Gerry Scotti: “The jokes with Linus and the Parliament. And now I’m the grandfather of quizzes”

Milan, 5 March 2022 – Gerry Scotti, today on Canale 5 the new edition of the Record Show begins. What is his record? “I have always been passionate about records, as a child I collected books that came out once a year. A passion that I passed on to my son Edoardo. My record? No one in the world of television has worked for almost 40 years in the same station, I have I received an affectionate note from Pier Silvio Berlusconi in which he recognized me as a ‘man of records.’ In the show we cleared through customs a sector that was previously gruesome for me, that of the ‘different’: the albino family, the bearded woman, the most low in the world … Before there was the morbidity of going to see a monster, today, however, with the customs clearance of the new means of communication, these people have discovered their potential, their desire to talk about themselves, the help they they can give to those who are bullied. ” Is doing entertainment in such a dramatic moment jarring with reality or is it a way to give viewers some serenity? “With Gene Gnocchi 30 years ago we lived the Gulf War in ‘Striscia’, with Michelle Hunziker two years ago the first phase of the pandemic, last year the second Covid. Over the years I have convinced myself that staying in Striscia with due lightness can help “. Speaking of lightness, of another kind, she decided to produce wine … “It was an old dream of mine, a gesture due to my grandfather, my father, my peasant origins. I kept saying:” One day I I will retire in the Oltrepo and instead of making television I will make wine “. Before making wine, I decided to stop with TV”. Her granddaughter is just over a year old. What effect does it have to pass from the role of father …