Job Covattapseudonym of Gianmaria Covatta, is an Italian actor and comedian, as well as an activist and politician, who arrives today at La volta buona to tell Caterina Balivo about himself with Cesare Bocci. He is also an activist and ambassador for Save the Children.
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Here is what we know about him: from the revisited Bible which earned him an indignant letter from a bishop, to the relationship with Maurizio Costanzo.
Giobbe Covatta, age and place of residence
Born in Taranto on June 11, 1956, Giobbe Covatta at 68 years old. Raised in Naples where he moved at age three with his family, working in the shipping field, he tried the comedy route at the Derby Club in Milan during a professional break, debuting with the stage name “Giobbe”. He now lives in Rome.
The debut at the Maurizio Costanzo Show
In 1987, Giobbe Covatta began on television on the Odeon TV channel with the program Une nuit à l’Odeon and in 1988 on Rai 2 with the program Tiramisù. The same year, he experienced a turning point with the Maurizio Costanzo Showwhere he was invited on several occasions.
Speaking of Costanzo, he said in an interview with Corriere: “He was extraordinary above all for one reason: he had absolute curiosity, he could welcome a Nobel Prize winner or a deaf mute and was capable of getting 90 minutes of interviews out of him. Off camera, he had a corrosive malice, together we talked very badly about a lot of people, I was having fun like crazy ».
Career
In 1991, he debuted at the Ciak Theater in Milan with the work ParaboleIperboli. A convinced activist, in 1994, with the collaboration of Greenpeace, he produced a show dealing with the preservation of whales entitled Air Conditionné, with the irreverent subtitle (“and now the whales are angry…”). From 1995 to 1997, he was always on stage, first with the show Primate Absolu, then debuting in Rome at the Parioli Theater with Moi et Lui, written and directed with Vincenzo Salemme and Francesco Paolantoni, and finally with Art, where he is directed by Ricky Tognazzi. A huge success at the national level was his God Makes Them and Then Mates Them, to the point of convincing him to follow up with God Makes Them… Third Millennium.
In January 2007, he made his theater debut with Seven. The 2007-2008 Zelig season welcomes Covatta to the scene with a new character. In the summer of 2008, he participated in a television series produced by Mediaset, Mes Médecins, in which he played Doctor Colantuono, head of clinic at Sanabel. In January 2010, he was back in the theater with Trente, a show dedicated to the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In March 2011, in duo with Enzo Iacchetti, he performed the comedy No plans for the future, with 87 performances in theaters throughout Italy. Since January 2012, it has brought to the theater 6° (six degrees), which represents the increase in degrees Celsius in the temperature of our planet beyond which the existence of human life would be in danger.
Reinterpretation of the Bible and “excommunication”
He also enjoyed success in publishing: his books were a great success with the public. Already with his first book Parola di Giobbe, reinterpretation of the Biblepublished in 1991, it topped the charts with a million copies sold.
And on this occasion, he even received an “excommunication” from the Church: “I have always liked to play on these things that everyone knows but that no one really knows. We are the most religious people in the world, the Pope is among us, but we cannot even find a person who has read the Bible – he explained again in the interview – a bishop sent me a letter with a wax seal saying I was outside the Church family. It didn’t worry me, on the contrary.”
In 1999, he returned with God Makes Them and Then Mates Them, from which he produced a theatrical show, where he revisited Creation and the Flood. In 2001 he performed Courses and recourses, but I didn’t get there, a theatrical show which had the same title as a book published in 2005, while in 2004 he presented Melanina and Varechina, a show which addressed the relationship between Africa and the Western world.
Wife and daughter
Giobbe Covatta is married to Paola Catella, also a television and theater writer, screenwriter and author. Giobbe also has a 27-year-old daughter: Olivia Covatta.
Travel in Africa
The activist and his wife also enjoy traveling and have published a book together that expresses the authors’ love for Africa. A continent that they have known for many years and that they frequent not as tourists but as travelers.
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