Lazzi (/ˈlɑːtsi/; from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) are stock comedic routines that are associated with commedia dell'arte. Performers, especially...

in mime or in words. The following lazzi examples are short comic routines by the character type Zanni. In "Lazzi of the Cat" the Zanni mimics the actions...

Gianluca Lazzi is an Italian electrical engineer. Lazzi graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome in 1994 with a Dr. Eng. in electrical engineering...

operator for each of the 14 lots constituted, CLAP merged with the companies Lazzi and C.LU.B. Scpa to form the consortium VaiBus which was absorbed by the...

character names, brief descriptions of action, and references to specific lazzi with no further explanation. It is believed that a scenario formed the basis...

Performers made use of well-rehearsed jokes and stock physical gags, known as lazzi and concetti, as well as on-the-spot improvised and interpolated episodes...

Two masked characters from the commedia dell'arte, whose "lazzi" involved a significant degree of improvisation....

plays. Plays did not originate from written drama but scenarios called lazzi, loose frameworks around which actors would improvise. The characters of...

of the play depended largely on their creativity and above all on their lazzi (jokes and gags). The spotlight fell on the actors rather than on the play...

Il Capitano (Italian: [il kapiˈtaːno]; lit. 'the Captain') is one of the four stock characters of commedia dell'arte. He most probably was never a "Captain"...