title: Viva Radio 2
text: # Viva Radio 2
  
  Viva Radio 2 was an Italian radio program aired from 2001 to 2008 on Rai Radio 2.
  
  ## Content
  
  The show was based on Fiorello's imitations, who is an acclaimed TV star. It is co-hosted with DJ Marco Baldini and music director Enrico Cremonesi. The show was written by Rosario Fiorello, Marco Baldini, Riccardo Cassini, Alberto Di Risio, Francesco Bozzi, and Federico Taddia.
  
  ## Partial list of imitated characters
  
  * Roberto Alagna
  * Kimi Räikkönen
  * prince Albert of Monaco
  * Francesco Amadori
  * Franco Battiato
  * Silvio Berlusconi (always called Cologno's forgetful)
  * Tony Blair, English prime minister
  * Mike Bongiorno
  * Carla Bruni
  * Franco Califano
  * Andrea Camilleri, author
  * Marco Carta
  * Antonio Cassano
  * Vincent Cassel
  * Roberto Cavalli
  * Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former president
  * Giuseppe Ciarrapico
  * Riccardo Cocciante
  * Maurizio Costanzo, TV host
  * Pino Daniele, singer
  * Umberto Eco, novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician and university professor
  * Erdoğan, Turkish Prime minister at the time
  * Father Georg Gänswein
  * Francesco Guccini, singer
  * Kim Jong-il
  * Ignazio La Russa, former defence minister
  * Carlo Lucarelli
  * Don Antonio Mazzi
  * fictional lawyer Messina (a parody of Carlo Taormina)
  * Monsignor Emmanuel Milingo
  * Gianni Minà, journalist
  * Federico Moccia, author
  * Gianni Morandi, singer
  * Massimo Moratti, former owner of FC Internazionale
  * Nanni Moretti
  * Silvio Muccino
  * Giorgio Napolitano, former president
  * Nicoletta Orsomando, TV announcer
  * Barbara Palombelli
  * Romano Prodi, former prime minister
  * Vladimir Putin, Russian Federation president
  * Quasimodo of Notre Dame
  * Vasco Rossi, singer
  * Tony Sperandeo
  * Oliviero Toscani
  * director and host of a fictional calabrese Television who emulate RAI TV programs
  * Bruno Vespa, TV host
  * Martano Volpi
  * Henry John Woodcock, former prosecutor of Potenza
  
  ## Viva Radio 2 on TV
  
  Viva Radio 2 was aired on TV on Rai Uno beginning in December 2006, and was broadcast every evening on Rai Uno in weekday access prime time from 21 January 2008 to 2 February 2008 under the name Viva Radio 2... minuti.
  
  