Armando Giovanni Iannucci is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer, and panellist. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of Oxford. Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today. A character from this series, Alan Partridge, co-created by Iannucci, went on to feature in a number of Iannucci's television and radio programmes, including Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge. Iannucci also fronted the satirical Armistice review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, The Armando Iannucci Shows, for Channel 4.
Santo Luigi Cilauro is an Australian comedian, television and feature film producer, screenwriter, actor, author and cameraman who is also a co-founder of The D-Generation. Known as the weatherman in Frontline, he is also an author and former radio presenter on the Triple M Network, and achieved worldwide fame with the viral video Elektronik Supersonik.
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
Andrew McGibbon, is an English comedian, actor, writer, musician and composer. He has also produced and directed extensively, chiefly for radio.
Rosario Tindaro Fiorello, known just as Fiorello, is an Italian comedian, singer, radio, and television presenter.
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics —the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Ilaria Occhini was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films.
Owen O'Neill is a Northern Irish writer, actor, director, and comedian.
Italian migration into what is today France has been going on, in different migrating cycles, for centuries, beginning in prehistoric times right to the modern age. In addition, Corsica passed from the Republic of Genoa to France in 1768, and the county of Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to France in 1860. According to Robin Cohen, "about 5 million French nationals are of Italian origin if their parentage is retraced over three generations". According to official data of the Eurostat for 2012, the number of Italian citizens residing in France was 174,000.
Maurizio Micheli is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, author, playwright and television personality.
Lucia Poli, is an Italian actress, playwright and stage director.
Teddy Reno is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.
Enrico Simonetti was an Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and television and radio presenter.
Tony Cucchiara, stage name of Salvatore Cucchiara was an Italian folk singer-songwriter, playwright and composer.
Primo applauso was an Italian variety show, broadcast on Rai 1 in 1956.
Enrico Brignano is an Italian actor, playwright, comedian, presenter and writer.
Italo Terzoli was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer.
Simona Marchini is an Italian actress, television and radio presenter, stage director, comedian and art dealer.
Giandomenico Boncompagni, best known as Gianni Boncompagni, was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and a lyricist.
Enrico Silvestrin is an Italian actor, television and radio presenter and musician.
