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Old February 26th, 2013 #5
Hunter Morrow
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I like this guy already. Sharp for a comedian.

Reading this guy's Wikipedia page, he's a nut of the very finest kind.

1987, He played the Prime Minister of Italy(Who was a Socialist) on a sketch satirizing the Prime Minister's visit to china.
Grillo as Prime Minister Craxi asks the Chinese government "If all the Chinese people are socialist, whom do you steal from?"

He was thrown off for t.v. for that, came back in the 1990s, didn't pull any punches and got thrown off again.

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On 8 September 2007, he organized a "V‑Day Celebration" in Italy; the "V" stood for vaffanculo ("fuck off"). During the rally, Grillo projected the names of two dozen Italian politicians who had been convicted of crimes ranging from corruption and tax evasion to abetting a murder. More than 2 million Italians participated in this rally.[4] Grillo also used this rally to urge Italians to sign a petition calling for the introduction of a Bill of Popular Initiative to remove members of the Italian Parliament who have criminal convictions of any kind from their office.[5] According to Internet scholars, V‑day was the first case in Italian history of a political demonstration developed and promoted via word–of–mouth mobilization on the blogosphere and the social networking services.[6]
Love it.