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March 28, 2021 Enrico Vaime died today at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.
Considered one of the greatest radio and television authors, he was 85 years old.
Vaime was also a writer, playwright and conductor.
Born in Perugia on January 19, 1936, Vaime, from 1960 to Rai where he had entered as a competition winner, has signed about 200 programs for TV, including the varieties "Quelli della Domenica" (1968), "Canzonissima" '68 and '69, "Fantastico" '88 and, with Maurizio Costanzo, "Memories from black and white" (Rai 1);
the fiction "A half-son", "Italian Restaurant", "My son is 70 years old".
With Costanzo his latest TV experience, "S'è fare notte", from 2012 to 2016.
Among his musical comedies: Felicibumta, Even bankers have a soul, Life begins every morning and many others.
On the radio he has collaborated on hundreds of programs and for decades hosted Black Out, on Radio2 on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
He has published numerous books, including Loving Means, Everyone Can Make Rich But The Poor, The Master's Pants, Losing Your Mind, Don't Count On Me, Black Out, When The Rocket Wasn't There, The idiots are not those of a time and even at the cost of lying, good people - almost an autobiography.
In more recent years he was often a guest on TV talk shows where he bewitched the audience with his sagacity and cutting irony.