Ponte Stretto, Gialappa's and Engineer Cane (Fabio De Luigi) predicted it twenty years ago - Video - "It looked like our sketch, they say it's true"

When Fabio De Luigi , playing Engineer Cane, designed the Messina Strait Bridge on the Italia 1 program, Mai Dire Domenica by Gialappa's Band...

Messina Bridge: Gialappa's, "Our engineer Cane's dream comes true."

"Our engineer Cane's dream is coming true!" says Marco Santin, a member of Gialappa's Band (along with Giorgio Gherarducci), jokingly commenting to Adnkronos on the CIPE (Italian Committee for Economic Planning)'s approval of the final design for the Messina Strait Bridge. "Last night, for a moment, I thought it was engineer Cane making the happy announcement on TV. The antenna wasn't working well, and it looked like a Cane sketch, but they say it's real. When will it be ready? In the next thousand?" Santin adds with a laugh, while videos of Fabio De Luigi playing the hilarious engineer Cane on Gialappa's programs (from 'Mai dire gol' and 'Mai dire domenica' onward) are once again gaining popularity online, as he grapples with a thousand improbable calculations and a thousand thousand arguments regarding the bridge's construction and impact on the local area.