TURIN. He was more of a homeless man. He was the man who told jokes on the street. He would come up and tell you: “I’ll tell you a quick one.” He did it until the end. Stefano, the joke seller, passed away in the last few hours, at the age of 52. “Oh, we caught the Chinese virus. And thank goodness, think if we caught the original! », He said a few days ago. A testimony by Marcello Poletti, alias Max Casacci, founder of Subsonica. Who writes on social media: “Goodbye Stefano, I don’t know if I will miss your jokes or the chatter we have had any more”.
Farewell to Stefano, the seller of jokes: here are some of his puns
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For some time he had been around with an orange sign hanging around his neck: “For sale jokes.” That was how he got on. The last segment of a daring life. At sixteen she had begun to break dance. He performed with friends in Piazza Castello, in front of the Teatro Regio. In the eighties he too had ended up in the spiral of drug addiction for about ten years.
He had worked in several professions: he had been involved in repairing household appliances, had been a coachbuilder and bartender. But his passion had always been the show. Until the episode that changed his life. One summer, at the seaside, he had run out of money and had the idea: to tell jokes to raise some money. It had gone so well that he had managed to finish his vacation, had paid for the return trip and even managed to save some money.
Farewell to Stefano, the seller of jokes: one of his latest videos and the announcement of having contracted Covid: “It’s not even the original”
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When he returned to Turin he had transformed this idea into a “profession”. And so he started “selling” jokes around the city. He did it among passers-by, in bars, in restaurants. He toured all over Northern Italy, putting together a decent nest egg. He had been doing this for over 20 years. Then the mother passed away and the years of the economic crisis arrived. Unable to afford housing, he ended up on the street. He spent the nights in the dormitory. And the day always on the street to tell jokes. “You made us laugh so much, now you make everyone laugh up there. Hi Stefano », the greeting on social media of the« Repubblica di San Salvario », one of the most followed Facebook page in the neighborhood.
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