Cochi e Renato

A mixture of satirical songs and zany, anything-goes stage antics transformed Cochi e Renato (born Aurelio Ponzoni and Renalto Pozzetto) into one of the most successful duos in the history of Italian entertainment. With Cochi portraying an intellectual artist and Renato a farmer, the pair appeared in two extremely popular television series: Those of Sunday, which aired in 1968, and The Poet and the Peasant in 1973. Friends since childhood, Cochi and Renato danced and made up their own songs as youngsters. Although they took separate jobs as a French, English, and Spanish inter...