Lazzi
A lazzo is a joke or gag.
The following Lazzi examples are short comic routines by the character type Zanni.
Acrobatic and Mimic Lazzi: In “Lazzi of the Cat” the Zanni mimics the actions of a cat, demonstrating how the cat hunts for wild birds or how the cat cleans himself by scratching his ears with his feet and cleaning his body with his mouth.
Sexual / Scatological Lazzi: In “Lazzo of Burying the Urine”, the Zanni is told that burying his urine and the urine produced by his wife will give him a son. Zanni gets a urinal that produces both and before he spills it into the soil, he treats it as a special fluid.
Stupidity/ Innapropriate Behavior: In “Lazzi of Counting Money”, the Zanni divides Pantalone’s money between Pantolone and himself in the following way: “One for Pantalone, two for me (gives one coin to Pantalone and two to himself); two for Pantalone, three for me (gives one coin to Pantalone and three to himself), etc. ”
Another popular lazzo was Zani walking behind his master mounted on a mule and goading it to go faster by blowing air from a pair of bellows onto the animal's anus.
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