Naples, Enrico Brignano at the Augusteo Theatre with 'Ma ... diamoci del tu!', on 29 and 30 September

After the great success of an overwhelming tour that toured all of Italy in the winter with over thirty completely sold out dates, continued also in the spring and summer, “MA… DIAMOCI DEL TU!” arrives in Naples, the show by Enrico Brignano written with Manuela D'Angelo and the collaboration on the lyrics by Alessio Parenti, with original music by Andrea Perrozzi and produced by Vivo Concerti.

The appointment is at the Teatro Augusteo for two unmissable shows on 29 and 30 September 2023.

Tickets are available online at www.

Enrico Brignano tells “MA… DIAMOCI DEL TU”: «Today, using the informal “tu” is the norm, while the “lei” seems archaic and formal. For example, when they call you from the call center to discuss, say, the telephone rate, or to suggest investing your grandmother’s inheritance in cryptocurrencies, they use the formal “lei”, probably to make it more difficult for you to tell them to go to hell. The “Lei” is bureaucratic, it is used with the police or at the municipality, but on the other hand the “tu” that is replacing it is empty, it does not carry with it that true confidence, that familiarity that I mean.

This is why I begin this show by using the informal form of address with my audience: to create a trust that is not of form, but of substance. And that I am a man of substance should be understood just by looking at me; I also want to add that BUT that resets everything, that eliminates distances, whether social, economic or age-related. Age... lately I have noticed that because of my age, more and more people tend to address me formally, a formal form that is as painful as a pang of sciatica, that is more annoying and irritating than when I find myself getting up from the sofa exclaiming: "hoplà". I think I should start removing the "young" from the expression "young Roman comedian".

Since I am in the mood for confidences, in my show I allow myself to talk about unpublished aspects of my profession and a personal story that then becomes a paradigm for everyone ... yes, because for the first time I have decided to talk about the disappointments, the false starts, all the NOs that I have collected in my professional life - and not. Of course always with a smile, never taking myself seriously, but underlining how everything is useful in life, even a rejection can strengthen us and make us what we are today. Assisted on stage by the maestro Andrea Perrozzi, I speak; with the collaboration of two "annoying" but very precious presences, Pasquale Bertucci and Michele Marra, in the meantime I continue to speak. Then when they leave me alone on stage, I still speak. Well yes, I have a lot to talk about. And sometimes even to complain about. "But Brignano, don't you know that complaining is typical of older people?"; "Of course I know. But in the meantime, you, what?... call me informally!