But... let's be informal!/ Enrico Brignano

It is hardly surprising that the winter tour of 'Ma... diamoci del tu!' (But... let's be informal!) has been so successful all over Italy, following the summer tour. After all, Enrico Brignano is the most national-popular comedian of them all, with all the trappings, and it is easy to imagine that the average Italian wants to indulge in a couple of hours of laughter and relaxation, surrounded as he is by distressing news about the war, the pandemic and high prices. "Calling each other 'tu' is now the norm today," says the Roman actor, introducing the show, "while 'lei' seems something archaic and formal. To say, when they call you from the call centre to discuss, I don't know, the telephone rate, or to suggest you invest your grandmother's inheritance in crypto-currencies, they use the lei, probably to make it more difficult for you to tell them to fuck off. Lately I have noticed that, because of my age, more and more people tend to call me a lei, a lei that is as painful as a twinge of sciatica, which is more annoying and irritating than when I find myself getting up from the sofa exclaiming hoplà'.

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