Tafazzi is an Italian comic character created by Carlo Turati and portrayed by Giacomo Poretti, member of the group

Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, comprising Cataldo "Aldo" Baglio (; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomino "Giacomo" Poretti (; born 26 ...

. It originally appeared in '' Mai dire Gol'', a comic-sports television show by the Gialappa's Band, but later appeared in other works of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo, including the theatre show ''I corti''. Tafazzi is a sort of

mime A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek language, Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a the ...

wearing a black tracksuit and a jockstrap, who does nothing but beat his groin with a plastic bottle while wearing a jockstrap. The character is the source of the name of the protein

Tafazzin Tafazzin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''TAFAZZIN'' gene. Tafazzin is highly expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle, and functions as a phospholipid- lysophospholipid transacylase (it belongs to phospholipid:diacylglycerol acylt ...

, due to the difficulties involved in identifying the tafazzin gene.

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