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Marco Donatello Mazzoli (
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,
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, 20 October 1972) is an Italian radio host. He is known for conducting the radio program
Lo Zoo di 105 Lo Zoo di 105 () is a radio program created by the Italian radio host Marco Mazzoli and broadcast on Radio 105 Network. The program is based on numerous impersonation of famous people and popular films and TV shows, prank calls and Dirty talk. The ...
on
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. Marco has always said to be inspired by the style of
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. Like Howard, Marco has had several fines from Agcom (the Italian
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) due to dirty talk and many lawsuits from sponsors and some celebrities.


Career


Early career

Raised in
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, where his father Claudio worked as art director for the
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, Marco Mazzoli began his career in local radio starting in
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, as Rovaradio Alta Brianza, Como Radio City, Radio Sei Milano, Radio Kelly Milano, Radio Play Rta, Radio Delta International and Radio Lombardia. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for
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,
Radio Capital Radio Capital is an Italian private radio station, was founded in May 1977 and is owned by the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (ultimately by EXOR owned by the Agnelli-family) and began broadcasting in 1985. Broadcast FTA on Hot Bird, on SKY Ital ...
(1995–1996) in tandem with DJ Angelo, then StationOne (1996–1998) with ''Dj Monta Mix'' and '' Mago Wender''. In this radio experience Marco Mazzoli began to give rise to situations such as ''Bastard Inside Line'', whose unique style is the main source of success of programs that currently leads.


Radio 105 Network

In 1998 he began a collaboration with
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, where he led a program broadcast on weekends; past the
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office, opened in early 1999, has conducted for 6 months ''105 New York'', with ''Camila Raznovich''. Returning from the
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, he has designed and conducted
Lo Zoo di 105 Lo Zoo di 105 () is a radio program created by the Italian radio host Marco Mazzoli and broadcast on Radio 105 Network. The program is based on numerous impersonation of famous people and popular films and TV shows, prank calls and Dirty talk. The ...
. At the end of 2005 the program has become the most listened in
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in its time slot, surpassing the program of
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, ''Deejay Time'' led by ''Albertino'' and currently it's the program with the largest number of listeners in fifteen minutes.


Other projects

In 2008 he won first prize at the ''
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'' (Angel Award) with his first screenplay entitled "The Theory". His first film is about a theory about human existence on earth. On 26 August 2010 in
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he married his wife Stefania, and on 21 September 2011 his autobiography was released, entitled ''Radiografia di un DJ che non piace'' (X-ray of a DJ who is not liked), published by Rizzoli. In November 2012 his second book "Non Mollare Mai" ("Never Give Up") (Mondadori) was released. This is the chronicle of Mazzoli's radio program "Lo Zoo di 105", which is the most popular radio program in Italy (over 1.1 million listeners every 15 minutes as of November 2012). The emphasis of the book is on the DJ's success despite the cut-throat competition and the hurdles imposed by strict censuring agencies. As from 23 December 2013 he hosts a show called "The Italian Brunch" on REvolution 93.5, a
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-based radio station that plays only dance music.


Television experiences

Among the many co-conduction and conduction on the small screen, Mazzoli has achieved the zero episode of " The Zoo on TV", never aired, conducted together with Fabio Alisei and
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trade winds, with brief appearances by
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and
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. Short clips of the episode zero can be seen in the DVD attached to one of the five numbers of the monthly "
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" released between 2005 and 2006 in the Italian newsstands. Since 2008, the
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also airs on TV on channel
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, experiment that led the program for a short period of time in 2009, also on
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. *
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- ''Caos Time'' 1994 - 1996 (conduction) *
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'' 1995 (co-conduction) *
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- ''Winter Park'' 1995 (co-conduction) *
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- ''Mio Capitano'' 1997 (conduction) *
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- ''Numero Zero'' 1997 (co-conduction) * Match Music - ''Bar Show'' 1999 (conduction) *
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- ''Express'' 1999 (co-conduction) *
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- ''Night EXPRESS'' 2000 (co-conduction) *
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- ''Beach Party'' 2000 (co-conduction) *
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- ''My Compilation'' 2002 (co-conduction) *
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- ''Sexy Boxy'' 2005 (conduction in voice) *
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'' June 2006 - June 2007 ( envoy) *
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Lo Zoo di 105 Lo Zoo di 105 () is a radio program created by the Italian radio host Marco Mazzoli and broadcast on Radio 105 Network. The program is based on numerous impersonation of famous people and popular films and TV shows, prank calls and Dirty talk. The ...
'' 2008 - in corso (conduction) *
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- ''Lo Zoo di 105'' September 2009 - December 2009 (conduction) *
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'' 2013 - 2014 (special guest)


Filmography

* ''
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'' (2013) * '' On Air: Storia di un successo'' (2016) The tracker (2018) Sesso e altri inconvenienti (2019) Ritorno al passato (2020)


References

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