Andrea Giuseppe Sasdelli

Giuseppe Giacobazzi is an Italian stand-up comedian and cabaret performer, the stage persona of Andrea Sasdelli, born on February 19, 1963 in Alfonsine in the Ravenna province of Romagna. Active since 1985, he is one of the most recognisable Zelig faces of the 2000s, famous for an everyman character with a thick Romagna accent that he built across radio, theatre and television.

Sasdelli debuted in 1985 as a radio host, sketching a country character named Giuseppe with an unmistakable Romagnolo cadence and later adding the surname Giacobazzi, borrowed from a Modenese wine label. He broke through nationally in 2005 on Zelig Off and was a fixture of the Canale 5 prime time cabaret show Zelig from 2006 to 2012, where his signature father-and-daughter monologues and the bit Io ce l'ho piccola became cult material. On stage he has toured Italian theatres with the shows Apocalypse, Un po' di me - genesi di un comico, Io ci saro, Noi: mille volti e una bugia, Il pedone and the long-running 2025-2026 hit Osteria Giacobazzi, almost always sold out. He has also fronted the Nove prime time show Io ci saro stasera and currently appears as comedy mentor on the Nove format Stand Up! Comici in prova, coaching Italian celebrities through their first stand-up sets. His style mixes warm autobiographical storytelling, dialect colour and family material rooted in life between Alfonsine and Bologna.

Giuseppe Giacobazzi is touring Italian theatres in the 2025-2026 season with Osteria Giacobazzi, a sold-out happening built around osteria tables on stage, audience guests and Andrea Vasumi in the role of reluctant waiter, with dates in Ravenna, Bologna, Ferrara, Trieste, Torino, Bergamo, Firenze, Mantova and Milan's Teatro Nazionale in May 2026. New monologues and behind-the-scenes clips appear on Instagram @giacobazziofficial, and tour news lives on giuseppegiacobazzi.com.