Emerging from a working-class family in Naples, he entered the performing arts as a teenager, co-founding the cabaret troupe “La Smorfia” in 1969 alongside Massimo Troisi and Enzo Decaro, which later secured nationwide attention through the RAI variety programs Non Stop and Luna Park in the late 1970s. After the group dissolved in 1980, he continued to collaborate with Troisi, appearing in the dir…
