Maurizio Crozza

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]}