Maurizio Crozza

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Maurizio Crozza
Crozza in 2007
Born	(1959-12-05) 5 December 1959 (age 65) Genoa, Italy
Medium	Stand-up television
Years active	1995–present
Genres	Political satire stand-up comedy impression character comedy (rarely) observational comedy (rarely)
Subject(s)	Italian politics current events pop culture
Spouse	Carla Signoris
Children	2

Maurizio Crozza (Italian: [mauˈrittsjo ˈkrɔttsa]; born 5 December 1959) is an Italian comedian, mimic, actor, and television presenter.

Crozza was born in Genoa, Italy. He attended an acting school in the same city, where he graduated in 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Crozza has worked for many years with the Gialappa's Band trio on Mediaset and in the Sunday show Quelli che... il Calcio on Rai. He has also starred in a number of films, including the 1995 movie Peggio di così si muore by Marcello Cesena.^[1] Over his career, Crozza has received both praise and criticism from Italian commentators: he was notably criticised over his satire on Pope Benedict XVI in 2006^[2] and about Silvio Berlusconi at the 2013 Sanremo Music Festival.^[3]

After hosting his own show on the network channel La7 for many years, in 2017 he moved the same show to Nove.^{[citation needed]}

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maurizio Crozza.

• Maurizio Crozza at IMDb 
• Maurizio Crozza's profile on La7