** 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.