Monday, March 4, 2013

Beppe Grillo - The Man Who Knew Too Much

** Warning the first following video contains rude words in Italian, but they are contextually appropriate given the subject matter **

From The Observer

Original source

What makes Beppe Grillo tick? After a quarter of Italians voted for his brand of populist insurgency in last week's general election, it is a question preoccupying the country's political class and much of the eurozone. According to Italy's most distinguished playwright and prominent Grillo supporter, the answer is simple.

"Grillo is like a character in one of my plays," says Dario Fo, whose satires on medieval and modern life have seen him handed a Nobel prize and hounded off Italian stages in a career that has covered 50 years. "He is from that school of medieval minstrels who played with paradox and the absurd," adds Fo.

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From TruthNeverTold  Video from 1998


From Euronews Video from Feb 2013

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