He began his comic career performing satirical monologues in theatre shows and writing comedy books.

Luttazzi did monologues about recent news, interviews with famous showbiz and political personalities, and skits for adult audiences.

Rocca took things further in 2007, claiming that the joke about Giuliano Ferrara, which led to the closure of the program "Decameron" (La7), was plagiarism from Bill Hicks.

[10] Luttazzi also calls the allegations "naive", explaining why those jokes are not "plagiarized", but "calqued", which is a fair use of original material.

[11] Five years before those allegations, Luttazzi wrote that he adds famous comedians' material to his work as a defense against the million-euro lawsuits he has to face because of his satire.

He awards a prize to anyone who finds a "nugget", i.e. a reference to famous jokes: he calls the game "treasure hunt".

[13] The essay positively evaluated Luttazzi's rewritings of pre-existing materials, defining them as transcreations, or creative translations that add new meanings to the sources, with the aim of modifying the cultural canon of their country.

In Luttazzi's defense, film director Roberto Faenza quoted Roberto Benigni: Benigni compares Luttazzi's copying to the greatest artists' copying, writers like Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, Buster Keaton, Eduardo De Filippo, and Woody Allen.