Paolo Bonolis Quotes

If this Thohir comes from Indonesia with a tale of 13 billion a year turnover, he must have some money. Either he's lying, or he has it.

The year of Serie B can be considered the year of the issue of Italiani (2001), a programme that went particularly badly; not only because of the writing of the programme, and for demanding live coverage, but above all because that year Giorgio Panarielllo went on air with a wonderful show 'Torno Sabato, which literally tore us to pieces.

Ciao Darwin is from the outset stated to be what it is, namely a carnival of the soul and a mirror that appears deforming but is in fact straightening with respect to a deformed reality.

Let's say that if once the "Juve style" was synonymous with elegance, now it tends more towards the casual.

In interviews I like to take not one but several steps backwards. I like TV that asks the questions and listens to the answers. Too often those asking questions are too complacent and don't listen to the interviewer.

Interviewer: Has TV, a certain kind of TV, corrupted the country?'Bonolis: Yes. The difference is when there is a lack of irony, when I don't say that I am showing a circus and mocking our everyday life. This applies more to information than to variety shows. It is very dangerous when information disguises itself as entertainment.

Ciao Darwin 8, aired March 22, 2019, on Mediaset; as quoted in Federico Boni Ciao Darwin 8, Paolo Bonolis: ‘un bimbo cresciuto da due etero o da due gay, non c’è differenza’, Gay.it, 23 March 2019

From the interview of Cinzia Marongiu, Paolo Bonolis: "Io, amato e criticato. La mia tv è trash? Ecco con chi sto tra seguaci del "Family Day" e mondo gay", Tiscali.it, 22 March 2019

As quoted in Silvia Fumarola, Bonolis no limits: "Altro che tv trash, questa è l'apocalisse", Repubblica.it, 18 April 2016

Ciao Darwin shows the prodromes of the apocalypse. We don't show monsters, that humanity exists: it is the neighbour.

From the interview Bonolis su Totti ai Mondiali: "Non lo porterei, è indolente..., Gazzetta.it, 2 October 2013

Today it is very difficult to fly, we began to live with difficulty when we started to ask ourselves not what is right or wrong, but what is convenient. Reasoning by expediency has brought out the Italian soul, which is neither Hector nor Achilles, but Ulysses: expediency is being cunning, looking for the Trojan Horse, wanting to be smarter than others.

At university I studied, instead, criminal law which is why I can speak with full rights about Juventus.

As quoted in Ivan Palumbo, Il blob: Mazzola e Sacchi ce l'hanno coi mediocri, Galliani e Inzaghi hanno paura, Gazzetta.it, 20 November 2014.