He has become famous both for his impersonations of Italian personalities (politicians, journalists, entertainment and television celebrities), and for playing his own characters inspired by contemporary society.

[9] Corrado Guzzanti made a name for himself with his impersonation of Vittorio Sgarbi, a controversial art historian, of Gianni Minoli, a journalist close to the then prime minister, the socialist Bettino Craxi, and above all with Rokko Smithersons, a fictional horror film director.

[10] From 1993 onwards, the sketches of the two Guzzanti siblings are focused on political news: at that time, the Italian justice system is involved in the investigation Mani pulite (clean hands), which ends with the fall of the First Republic, while Silvio Berlusconi announces his "descent into the playing field".

In Guzzanti's impersonation, Fede kidnaps the eight-year-old son of another television executive, in order to extort exclusive rights to football matches from him.

In fact, Chennedy does not hesitate to ruin the reputation of shy and awkward guests, by putting them in very uncomfortable situations, in order to increase his audience.

Another emblematic character is Quelo (That One),[11] a pseudo-priest who carried the word of a new god, from which he took his name, represented by a wooden tablet with nails in place of limbs and facial features drawn to replicate an emoticon-like smile.

In the following programmes, still hosted by Serena Dandini, Guzzanti focused on imitating centre-left and far-left politicians, who were in government at the time but were experiencing strong internal tensions.

[12] In 2000, when Berlusconi's movement took the name Casa della libertà (House of Freedom), Guzzanti produced a series of parody advertisements in which the protagonists violated the most basic rules of decorum and civic sense.

The presenter, played by Guzzanti, starting from Scafroglia's disappearance, analysed the Italian political situation, characterised at the time by the presence of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister.

His reflections are interspersed with sketches in which Guzzanti proposes an imitation of the then Minister of Finance, Giulio Tremonti (presented as a squanderer of public money and a gambler) and new caricatures, such as the Mafioso, portrayed in his arrogance and powers not weakened by his imprisonment; the Mason in a balaclava taking stock of the progress of the plans of his Masonic lodge – which referred to Propaganda Due; Vulvia, an imaginary character representing the flirtatious and ignorant presenter of a science programme; the fictional Fascist hierarch Gaetano Maria Barbagli, leader of a handful of men who set out to conquer the red planet Mars.

After the judicial events that had seen his sister Sabina ostracized by Mediaset, he appeared more and more rarely on public television and chose to work for Sky Italia.

In particular, he participated in the highly successful television series Boris, where he played two characters at the same time: Mariano Giusti, a frustrated actor with psychotic tendencies, and Padre Gabrielli, a fake priest affiliated with the Camorra.

He also reintroduces already known characters, such as the impersonation of the singer Antonello Venditti, the Mason, the Mafioso (who celebrates 150 years of the Mafia instead of the unification of Italy), and Father Florestano Pizzarro, a powerful priest who is in fact, a nihilist and candidly admits to having worn the cassock for mere convenience.

At the end of the case, Corrado Guzzanti wrote a letter of thanks in which, among other things, he analysed the interference of religion on Italian cultural life, "which offended his secular feeling".

),[15] in which he plays a famous snobbish intellectual, Mario Bambea, who, after a serious car accident, begins to suffer from a split personality, allowing his alter ego Bizio Capoccetti, a crude and vulgar comic, to emerge.