Will Smith, Paolo Cevoli: Chris Rock was wrong. “I’ll tell you about that time at the Ciak”

How far can a comedian go? Is the right to satire absolute or does it know limits? About the quarrel between Will Smith and Chris Rock on the stage of the Oscars, we asked Paolo Cevoli, a longtime comedian, for an opinion. Did Chris Rock overdo it? “First of all we should understand what comedy is for and then maybe you can understand the gesture. According to Pirandello, humor comes from empathy. When the aim is only to get a laugh it becomes cynical. Let’s say that Chris Rock made a fuss, You cannot use a person’s flaw, beyond the politically correct or incorrect. You can make fun of your friend but not in front of millions of people. You do it because you love him. It also seems to me that there is a ‘ aggravating, possible that no one has read the script and told him that it was not the case? I improvise a lot in the shows, but sometimes friends advise me against making certain jokes “Have you ever had a vehement reaction from the audience? “I did a show on the Bible that was politically incorrect. I commented on the sacrifice of Cain and Abel: Abel sacrifices a lamb to God, while Cain sacrifices vegetables. I commented: perhaps the grilled vegetables did not please God because God is not a vegetarian. In the end of the show a spectator came up to me, resentful, and asked me why I was making fun of vegetarians. I replied that in case I was making fun of God, but I was disappointed. ” Can we say that one of the limits of comedy is respect for disease? “Of course, you don’t joke about illnesses. There are also personal limits, for example Checco Zalone can say anything because he has pure ignorance. You become the Pulcinella, the servant, who can make fun of anyone from below.” …