# Paolo Bonolis

Paolo Bonolis (born 14 June 1961) is an Italian television host.

## Quotes

Quotes are reported in chronological order
* Everyone who sells you a complete kit on the meaning of life is cheating you. I calmly ignore those who advocate incontrovertible truths. Standing on an exclamation mark is easy. I'm on the question mark: it's more basculating.
** From the interview of Giancarlo Perna, Paolo Bonolis: "Sono il farfallone della tv", ilgiornale.it, 28 October 2009.
* 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.
** From the interview Caro Paolo, Ciao Darwin si può dire trash senza fargli male, tvblog.it, 19 April 2010
* 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.
** From the interview Bonolis: certa tv ha contribuito a corrompere il nostro Paese, Corriere.it, 17 December 2010.
* 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.
** From the interview Bonolis: certa tv ha contribuito a corrompere il nostro Paese, Corriere.it, 17 December 2010.
* 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.
** From the interview Bonolis: certa tv ha contribuito a corrompere il nostro Paese, Corriere.it, 17 December 2010.
* I have five children, I like children. Maybe that means I also like wives.
** From the interview Bonolis: certa tv ha contribuito a corrompere il nostro Paese, Corriere.it, 17 December 2010.
* Let's say that if once the "Juve style" was synonymous with elegance, now it tends more towards the casual.
** As quited in Juve-Inter, Bonolis risponde a Elkann: "Né elegante, né sportivo", Gazzetta.it, 3 April 2014.
* Francesco has God-blessed feet but is a little lazy in the ball-retrieval phase.
** From the interview Bonolis su Totti ai Mondiali: "Non lo porterei, è indolente..., Gazzetta.it, 2 October 2013
* 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.[7]
** From the interview of Beatrice Giunta, Quattro Chiacchiere a $^[$sic] con... Paolo Bonolis, swiftbrains24.wordpress.com, 5 November 2014
* 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.
** 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.
* At university I studied, instead, criminal law which is why I can speak with full rights about Juventus.
** During the TV program Tiki Taka aired on Italia 1; as quoted in Bonolis a Mughini: "Ho studiato diritto penale, posso parlare di Juventus", Juvenews.eu, 22 September 2015
* Ciao Darwin shows the prodromes of the apocalypse. We don't show monsters, that humanity exists: it is the neighbour.
** As quoted in Silvia Fumarola, Bonolis no limits: "Altro che tv trash, questa è l'apocalisse", Repubblica.it, 18 April 2016
* Ciao Darwin is not vulgar: it is grotesque and there is a subtle difference. Many did not understand it, others did not want to understand it. The exaggeration of tone, the exhibitionism, are grotesque condemnations to which humanity is subjected. Trying to exorcise it, we show the reality: this is the world, even if we do not want to see it. A laugh will bury us.
** As quoted in Silvia Fumarola, Bonolis no limits: "Altro che tv trash, questa è l'apocalisse", Repubblica.it, 18 April 2016
* [On homogenitoriality] Sometimes I ask myself questions too. Here we are talking about love towards children, who have a right to love. That can come from a man and a woman, of course, but I ask myself: why can't that love come from two men or two women and instead be given by seven nuns? This is a question I ask myself. Why not? Why not?
** 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
* [On homogenitoriality]... with respect to love, affective availability belongs equally to different behavioural genders. What does it matter whether it is two men with a child, or a man and a woman, or two women? I do not know who is able to decide how it is right to love.
** 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
* Ciao Darwin also tells trash, but it does so consciously and using humour. Whereas there are many programmes that are convinced they are telling something else but are actually trash.
** 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
* Renzi is a very polite, decent and intelligent person. The fact that he is so controversial? Doing things inevitably creates problems. Renzi would have wanted to do right by the many but the few who would lose out convinced the many that it would be a problem for them too. That said, there are other good politicians in Italy. Generally they are the ones who have a more difficult life.
** 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

## External links

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