Career
He made his debut in 1981 on Tre, due, uno, contatto.., a program for children that aired on Italian national broadcast Radiotelevisione Italiana. In 1982, he moved to Italia 1 where he hosted Bim bum bam, again a program for children. He anchored Bim Bum Bam until 1990 and then he hosted some variety shows like, Bulli & pupe, Non è la Radiotelevisione Italiana and Belli freschi. After that, he signed back with Radiotelevisione Italiana and hosted a few prime time shows like I cervelloni, Beato tra le donne and the quiz show Luna park, on air in the evening in Raiuno.
In 1996 he went back to Mediaset, where he successfully hosted Tira & molla and the prime time shows Ciao Darwin est
Beginning in the same year he also hosted on Canale 5 the satyrical news program Striscia la notizia. The program was anchored along with Bonolis"s longstanding collaborator, the singer and comic actor Luca Laurenti.
He returned in Radiotelevisione Italiana in 2003, when he presented Domenica In and, later, Affari tuoi, game show that in the early 2004 had a lot of success. After that he presented the Festival di Sanremo 2005, the most important Italian music festival, having a lot of success.
He repeated this experience in 2009.
In the second part of the 2000s (decade) he hosted, for Canale 5, programs like Il senso della vita and some new editions of the successful shows Ciao Darwin and In 2006 he debuted in the cinemas with the film Commediasexi. Paolo Bonolis has pronounced 335 words in one minute.
The words are a part of the first chapter of The Betrothed (in Italian "I Promessi Sposi").
