C’era una volta il Derby Club is a television documentary, narrated by Elio, from Elio e le Storie Tese. We retraced the history of the Derby Club Cabaret, through rich archive material and numerous interviews with artists who made their debut at the Derby Club, including Cochi Ponzoni, Paolo Rossi, Massimo Boldi, Claudio Bisio, Antonio Catania and Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo.

From the early 1960s until 1985, when it closed its doors, the Derby Club Cabaret was in fact one of the most fashionable meeting points in Milan. For more than twenty years, various generations of comedians destined to enter the history of Italian entertainment performed there, giving life to a school of comedy crossed by anarchic and surreal veins destined to remain unmatched. Fu un periodo indimenticabile, una vera e propria epopea.