By Antonio La Cava
Placing a Iena (hyena) in a precise category is quite impossible. He is not a journalist, neither a comedian nor an actor. But so, who is a Iena?
Of course we are talking about the correspondents of the program Le Iene, who make reports by using satire and a caustic humour.
To explain who really a Iena is and what his job is, one of them, Andrea Pellizzari, landed from Italy to London with his alter ego, the impudent Mr Brown, to teach English and speak about himself.
Yellow raincoat, little glasses, a modest height, Mr Brown is the successful character in Le Iene (from an idea by Fabrizio Montagner) who, with hilarious sketches, bothers in an ironic way people in the streets in Italy by teaching to them the English language.
“It is the first time I play Mr Brown in London” Andrea Pellizzari says, guest of the Italian Bookshop, whom with the actor Marco Gambino has given birth to a hilarious evening.
Mr Brown asks a guy from the audience to help him in his short lesson of English: “One ball” Mr Brown says in English, taking out from his raincoat pocket a tennis ball; “Two balls” he says after, beating by surprise the low sides of the guy.
It is indeed in this way that Mr Brown has gained the Italians’ liking, often harsh to learn a new language: with irony, insolence and impudence.
Besides the sketches, Andrea Pellizzari spoke about his job, what means working for Le Iene, and about the level of freedom that every correspondent has. “Le Iene is a programme born 10 years ago and has 18 correspondents. The reportages range from the social aspects to the political ones. We have revealed different frauds, had paedophiles arrested, and cooperate with the police”. “Surely the mark of a Iena is the use of the candid camera technique, which allows to reveal burning situations that could not be revealed through traditional investigations”.
“Absurd as it may seem, there is more freedom on TV programmes than on the news, especially within Mediaset, where in the end the results count”.
About the level of freedom in a Iena’s job, Pellizzari says that “there are just some check calls, where they ask you what you have made”. But much freedom is not really present, as revealed by the case of the Iena Sortino, who could not broadcast one of his reports.
“About Mr Brown I made two books, the first is a course of English, whilst the second one give some advice on how to conquer women”.
And so Pellizzari, putting aside Mr Brown raincoat, says goodbye to the audience and with his bright eyes starts spotting his next victim.
Because a Iena never stops being a Iena!
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