Gad Lerner

"(About Giorgio Gaber) It was by acting in this [collective] dimension that he created a unique way of connecting with the public, breaking away from all the self-referential clichés that, as a hugely popular figure, he could easily have allowed himself. Because it is true that, on the one hand, Gaber made the radical choice to remain on the sidelines; but immediately afterwards, he suggested to anyone who wanted to listen to him that they should go to him. Ready to engage in discussion with him."

"We shattered that ‘we’ that Gaber was leading us towards. He wanted to take us into our individual selves, within each of which there is religion, spirituality, artistic sensibility, politics itself, to seek, together, a different ‘we’ that would truly liberate and involve all selves. Instead, we have arrived at frightening new ‘we’s, which isolate each other and are even capable of racism and violence. We have come to ask ourselves whether human freedom is a ‘political’ or ‘anti-political’ matter."

"On 27 May 1964, a nine-year-old boy with a poor appetite, already in his pyjamas, was given special permission to stay up and watch television. His mother tricked him: ‘Look, if you don't eat, even your heroes won't make it’. I still remember the monstrous size of the stuffed loaf of bread that was placed in my hands. I chewed tenaciously, my eyes fixed on the screen. I swallowed with difficulty but without stopping: the first good luck ritual, the more I ate, the better our team played! I only stopped to wave the Nerazzurri flag on the sofa after every goal. When captain Picchi lifted the cup to the sky in the middle of the Prater in Vienna and the white shirts of Real Madrid finally appeared defeated, my father was moved to tears: how could I sleep with all that adrenaline in my brain and all that bread in my stomach? So that little boy, who was usually sent to bed before Carosello, took his place in his pyjamas in the Fiat 1300, with the flag hanging out of the window. Everyone to Piazza Duomo! Long live Inter, who freed the night for children!"

"RAI argues and then doesn't reopen its talk shows. Thanks, you're brilliant: it's all publicity for La7, which broadcasts them."

"(Regarding Silvio Berlusconi) Hallelujah! The orchestra plays in front of the Quirinale and throughout Italy we celebrate Liberation Day. The future is uncertain, but we are leaving behind the shame of being represented in the world by a man like."

"Just as Borghezio has already been expelled from the parliamentary group he belonged to in Strasbourg following his offensive remarks against Kyenge, we expect the Lega senators to do the same with Calderoli. It will not be a great loss. It will also serve to re-establish in Italy the European practice of keeping racists on the margins of institutions, not least because the liberal and moderate right is the first to commit itself to not giving them any space."

"Hydrogen bomb explodes in North Korea, causing an earthquake. Too bad Salvini and Razzi weren't in their adopted homeland."

"He's very good, I'm glad they put him on TG1, he's a good presenter and an excellent journalist. But will he be a good director?"

"He has had a troubled political career, typical of his generation, but today he is very different from his early days."

"Capalbio is better than Portofino, more chic. With the money from Trochetti Provera, Gad Lerner can afford this and more, so he can host who knows how many black people in his house."