Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters

Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, composed of Aldo Baglio; born 28 September 1958, Giovanni Storti; born 20 February 1957 and Giacomo Poretti; born 26 April 1956. Performing in cinema, theatre and television, they are among the most successful and widely known Italian comedians.

Their humour is typically Milanese, involving scenes that develop from a simple idea, and that are often centred on stereotypical differences between Northern and Southern Italy.

Early Biography
Cataldo Baglio, better known simply as Aldo, was born in Palermo but grew up in Milan, where he met Giovanni Storti. They both studied mime and dance at the School of Drama of the Teatro Arsenale of Milan. Giovanni graduated in 1977, and Aldo in 1978, and the two immediately took part in various cabaret shows including E domani? (1979) and Il suggestibile” as well as performing in various television dramas, including Vacanze di professione. Giacomo Poretti, meanwhile, was part of the cabaret duo “Hansel and Strudel” along with Marina Massironi who was his girlfriend at the time, and later his wife.

Theatre
The trio as we know it now was formed in 1985 when Baglio and Storti met Poretti and invited him to make sketches with them. From 1991 the trio – now renamed as Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo – performed in theatre with Marina Massironi. They were in shows such as Summer Lightning (1992, directed by Paola Galassi), Back to the Gerund (with Flavio Oreglio and Antonio Cornacchione), Air Storm (1993, directed by Giancarlo Bozzo), The Shorts (1996, directed by Arturo Brachetti), and The Circus of Paolo Rossi (1995, directed by Giampiero Solari and starring Paolo Rossi).

The actress Marina Massironi had joined the comic trio as stooge in the nineties. In the 2006 show Anplagghed (directed by Arturo Brachetti), Marina Massironi was replaced by Silvana Fallisi, Aldo’s wife. In 2012 the trio returned to the stage with the theatre tour Ammutta Muddica.

Television
Their first television appearance was in the summer of 1992 in TG delle vacanze alongside the comedy duo Zuzzurro and Gaspare; in the same year, they took part in Su la testa!, hosted by Paolo Rossi. During 1993 they participated in Cielito Lindo with Claudio Bisio and in the period 1995-1997 they were in the cast of Mai dire Gol, a TV show hosted by the Gialappa’s Band.

The play Tel chi el telùn, was filmed and broadcast by Channel 5 during 1999, directed by Arturo Brachetti. The show was repeated several times in the following years. Back with the Gialappa’s Band in 2004, the trio made sketch show Mai dire domenica. In 2008 they returned to the air with two new plays: Anplagghed, broadcast by Channel 5 and Italy 1; and Pur Purr Rid, which contained a mixture of all the trio’s performances. In 2009 they joined the cast of the talk show on Rai 3 Che tempo che fa. On 25 December 2013, they performed in a show for Radioitalia dedicated to the NPO Alice for Children. From 8 May 2014 Ammutta muddica was broadcast on Channel 5, three broadcasts in prime time.

Cinema
Their big-screen debut was in 1997 with the film Three Men and a Leg, alongside Marina Massironi and Massimo Venier as a writer and director, in which they have repeated several typical sketches of their repertoire with a simple plot. The film was acclaimed by both public and critics.

The success of the first film was repeated in 1998 with That’s Life, again with Marina Massironi, and in Ask Me If I’m Happy, released in 2000 and collecting more than seventy billion Italian Lira at the box office, entering the top five of the most profitable Italian movies. In 2002 came The Legend of Al, John and Jack, followed in 2004 by Do You Know Claudia?, with Massimo Venier as director and Paola Cortellesi as female lead.

A special version of their eponymous play was released in 2006, called Anplagghed al cinema. The comic trio returned to the big screen on 19 December 2008 with an episodic film, Il cosmo sul comò, under the direction of comedian Marcello Cesena. On 12 February 2010, they were voice actors in the documentary Oceans 3D, while on 17 December 2010 they released The Santa Claus Gang, blockbuster of the season with box office takings of more than twenty-five million euros.

After four years of absence, on 11 December 2014, the trio returned with The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler. In late 2016, Fuga da Reuma Park was released, which received negative responses from critics and the public. After a three year hiatus, they returned to critical acclaim in January 2020 with I Hate Summer.