Tabu for stand -up

Comedian Alexander Dolgopolov left Russia after a complaint of an insulted believer

A year ago, speaking at the St. Petersburg bar, Dolgopolov issued a whole block of hard God -fighting jokes. The most memorable is why Jesus was not called Bogdan. And I received in response a complaint from Orekhovo-Zuev, not too intelligent. In it, a person who believes that his religious feelings are offended, calls Dolgopolov a ear and schmuck.

"And if I defeat your family graves?" He asks. This, apparently, religious feelings allow him and even demand him.

The joke about Bogdan is really rude. But excuse me - a stand -up is so arranged. The main topics of the genre are politics, religion, sex. Take them away - and the show will turn into a collection of jokes about mother -in -law. The complainant from Orekhovo-Zuev is dissatisfied with this, he writes: Dolgopolov violates the taboos. And the truth violates. If he had not violated, he would be professional. The stand -up is not only art, it is also psychotherapy. A way to pronounce things that everyone thinks about, but they are afraid or cannot say. It only seems that Dolgopolov, Transverse, Kvashonkin, Malaya and other standpers express their personal opinion. Then they would not have so many listeners. Dolgopolov’s program “New Hour of Joking” has more than two million views. The transverse program “Non -perfect” has 17 million. So, not only they think so.

We cannot quote a joke about Bogdan, because tomorrow it will be banned by Roskomnadzor and we will find ourselves in the position of Dolgopolov. But let's see what he was talking about.

• About how parents intimidate children. “The last thing you want when you are seven is to be a damned seven -year -old child.”

• About nostalgia and cruelty. “The twenty -first century is in the yard. No one needs nostalgia anymore. Remember how you go out into the street in childhood, tearing a leaflet, and there are veins on it. And the mother calls from the window: "Grishkovets, go eat!" You have a request, and I give it to you: children cut by trains and sewn back. Please, everything is for you. ”

• About political censorship. “It was a little strange when I went out:“ Damn, Lukashenko, that he allows himself! He unleashed the war in Ukraine! Lukashenko, stop! I poisoned the Skripals! For what?"

• About feminism and consumer attitude towards women. “Robin after the concert chooses the most beautiful woman. She says: "Let's go to you or to me." And he: “No, I want to know what kind of person you are! What are you dreaming about? Who did you want to become in childhood? "

I only quoted the most harmless. And there is also about Putin, about a dude hanging on video games, about the attitude to money. And a lot of mat. Mat - generation marker; If you do not swear, then you are 30+. But they forgave him mat, did not forgive Bogdan.

Yes, indeed, young people are cynical to religion. She does not really understand how it works and why it is needed in the world of mini-loans, Tinder and fake elections. Maybe he will understand, but for this you need to talk at least.

Before us is psychotherapy, a collective session. People laugh, it becomes easier for them. They think: "Well, at least someone said that, otherwise I have already been exhausted." Now imagine the patient on the couch the psychoanalyst. Woody Allen's favorite theme. The patient says: “Sometimes, when my wife and I are in bed, I imagine a naked president instead of her. And I feel really scared. I think to divorce. " Psychoanalyst: "No, this is not necessary about it, we have a taboo." What happens after that with the patient? That's right, he goes crazy.

The same is the case with the generation, the voice of which is the Russian stand -up.

If you fade his taboo, people will go crazy or take up the armature and baseball bats. Because silence about the main thing is above human forces.

Suddenly, Natalya Poklonskaya stood up behind Dolgopolova. She said that there is no need to arrange an Inquisition due to jokes about God. But no, while it is not like the Inquisition, just a check of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Dolgopolov left Russia almost immediately after they started. Reproaches in paranoia and cowardice have already rained down on him. Nobody has planted you yet, and you have already been scared. He looked frightened. Here you can, of course, write off everything to the unstable psyche of the comedian. He frankly spoke about this in an interview with Dudi. But let's recall Danila Transverse, who was harshly pursued several years ago under the same article - insulting believers. He barely fought back and for another six months he went quiet. The transverse is a strong guy and an excellent comedian. But after each such collision, he keeps a pause, jokes more carefully and carefully.

Recall the musician Fedor Chistyakov. He left immediately after Jehovah's Witness was recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation. Three years ago, everyone also laughed at him. They said: what are you scared, no one will touch you with a finger. And then mass arrests and landing of “witnesses” began.

All are scared, and there are grounds for this. “A writer with a frightened soul is a loss of qualifications,” said Zoshchenko. This is exactly what is happening now. People who are used to talking freely about the most important thing are leaving or falling silent. The authorities think that she defeated them and their listeners. In fact, she drove them to a dead end. From it now either to the doctor or for the reinforcement.

Updated
“The main motive [departure of Dolgopolov from Russia] is the malicious persecution of the police and the refusal of actual contact with us. We know the applicant himself only from the media, we have no more information about him, ”Leonid Solovyov, lawyer of the Agora human rights group, told the“ new ”lawyer.

He emphasized that law enforcement agencies did not contact Alexander directly.

Last update - dated January 23, 18:12 (Moscow time)