Lillo & Greg

Lillo & Greg
Lillo (right) & Greg (left) in Terni, (2010)
Lillo (right) & Greg (left) in Terni, (2010)
Background information
OriginRome, Italy
OccupationsMusicians, comedy duo

Lillo & Greg are an Italian comedy duo consisting of Pasquale Petrolo (born 1962) and Claudio Gregori (born 1963), active in theatre, film, television and radio, as well as musicians, writers and cartoonists.

Life and career

Petrolo and Gregori first met in 1986, when they both worked as cartoonists for the same publishing house, ACME (Petrolo as author of Zio Tibia, realized together with Michelangelo La Neve, while Gregori for I sottotitolati). When in 1991 the publishing house failed, the two decided to engage in new projects, most notably the creation of a comedy rock group, Latte & i Suoi Derivati ("Milk & Its Derivatives"). Active in television, radio, on stage and in films, they are among the creators of the TV-program Le Iene, and since 2003 they are authors and hosts of the program 610 - Sei uno zero on Radio 2.

The duo made their film debut in Giorgio Panariello's Bagnomaria (1999), in which they played two "men in black", and appeared as leading actors in Enrico Caria's comedy Blek Giek (2001). They later starred in Lillo e Greg: The Movie! (2007), a compilation of comedy sketches, before appearing as protagonists in Colpi di fulmine (2012) and Colpi di fortuna (2013). They also starred in three Christmas comedies directed by Volfango De Biasi: Un Natale stupefacente (2014), Natale col boss (2015) and Natale a Londra – Dio salvi la regina (2016).

In 2020, Lillo & Greg made their feature film directorial debut with the comedy film D.N.A. - Decisamente non adatti, followed by Gli idoli delle donne in 2022, which they co-directed with Eros Puglielli.

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Stefania Ulivi (22 December 2014). "Lillo & Greg, segreti di coppia". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Monica Sicca (24 March 2015). "Dal 24 Lillo & Greg in un comic-noir all'Alfieri". La Stampa. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 Ermisino, Maurizio (4 May 2020). "Lillo & Greg, dalla tv ai film e l'esordio alla regia". Movieplayer.it (in Italian).
  4. ↑ Finos, Arianna (28 April 2020). "Lillo e Greg, la strana coppia alla regia. "Un film per tornare a sorridere"". la Repubblica (in Italian).
  5. ↑ "Lillo e Greg, siamo noi Gli idoli delle donne". ANSA (in Italian). 7 April 2022.