“You have read fake news” –

Fiorello, with Biggio, Casciari and the whole band, comments promptly on the day’s review between music and irony. Closing: Ariane with Mama Beats perform “I make peace with me”. Among the various headlines on Thursday 18 April, Fiorello read the news of Mediaset’s overtaking in television ratings but immediately received a denial from Rai CEO Roberto Sergio. Fiorello: “The Rai Board of Directors admits the overtaking of Mediaset, for the first time in thirty years of duopoly. It’s nice because this way there will be a new incentive to do better. In place of the Rai horse in Piazza Mazzini there is the former Gabibbo. Yesterday Roberto Sergio exclaimed ‘Italy… one!’ – the host quips, but soon a message arrives on his cell phone from Roberto Sergio himself, denying the scoop – Wait… I got a message, not a bullshit, but almost, from Roberto Sergio: you’ve read fake news, it’s the best budget in recent years and we are always leaders in ratings. He also put the emoji with the pointing finger, the director denies it,” reads the CEO’s informal correction.

Then the showman reads about an anecdote recently told by Bruno Vespa: “Well, Vespa says ‘When I refused two million from Berlusconi to go to Mediaset”, he would have gone for “The babe and the nerd”. Daddy, without taking anything away from you who remove the hair from your chest and dye yourself, but would you watch a Pupa and Nerd led by Vespa… would you watch the public? Women love him!”. As always, there was no shortage of healthy political satire: Sicily was at the center of the discussion: “A record has been broken that Italy should be proud of. ‘Vote exchange in Catania, deputy governor suspended, two carabinieri under investigation’. This was a record, just think, for 13 hours no politician had been investigated! – the showman jokes to lighten the news, but also to warn the country’s politicians – Guys, the word is stormy, but there is serenity because the judiciary will do its job…The vice president of the Region has been suspended for corruption Sammartino, this is his defense: Puglia was stealing our visibility. The League played the wild card with Sammartino – says Fiorello ironically – In Sammartino they call him “the lord of the cards”. The curious thing is that Sammartino’s uncle is an inspector in Bari and was sent to Bari to check cases of alleged corruption. They called him back “Maybe it’s better for you to go home.”