"Isn't it funny, funny? .." Part One

The proposal of one of my good acquaintances - to write a dissertation on the topic "Putin's Humor" - woke the theorist dozing in me. But the task, damn it! The theorist thought, waking up. After all, humor is the basic quality of a person, inseparable from intelligence. Lakmus paper showing ... etc. (Thought the theoretician).

And interest in this issue is not leisure!

After all, if you forget that Vladimir Vladimirovich himself, in a sense, is the joke of Boris Abramovich, if you approach the issue academically, if you generalize and sort the pearls of irony, scattered along the transcript of his performances ...-Maybe something like that suddenly will be cleared in a magical crystal? The future will suddenly take it and will visit sharpness, otherwise we are waiting for the eighth year, as in Pompeii.

And already warm ...

Well, the dissertation is not a dissertation, but ... in general, I agreed. And, not trusting the old woman, he climbed the Internet and in five minutes put on the material on his doctoral dissertation. Because for several years Putin has been joking regularly; The little one was walking under the hat of Monomakh ...

But the early masterpieces of the guarantor of the tablet were almost not conveyed to us. And about the quarantation period in general, silence-and whether he joked at least somehow at that time, science is unknown.

This complicates the study.

Having before the eyes of the “Sorochinsky Fair”, you see the tragic path of Gogol more clearly. Antosha Chekhonte helps to understand the author of the Cherry Garden. Almost nothing is known about the origins of the Putin genius.

Brief biographical certificates indicate anything, but not about God's gift. KGB school, quiet service in the German province ... not a sound. That is, maybe he joked there for beer in a trusted company, but the witnesses are silent in a rag, clever. The later stories about how, in 1989, the future guarantor with the look of steel eyes on an angry German crowd prevented the pogrom in the Soviet representative office, speak only about the sense of humor of the Channel One correspondents.

However, in this, it seems, the real humor of the situation is hidden: over time, Vladimir Vladimirovich himself believed that he was, if not a Stirlitz, then, at least, a radio operator of Kat ... a constant emphasizing his Chekist past (“names, passwords, appearances”); The growth of self-awareness, which has reached the peak in a recent comparison of its Dresden "special service" with the biography of the director of the CIA Bush Sr., all this indicates the degree of adequacy of our hero, who was written from organs to vice to the vice of the Zhdanov’s native legal faculty ...

But it was from there that the rise of the Putin’s comic genius began!

Kazy boredom does not exclude the secret work of the spirit: Rousseau was a customs officer, Kafka was breathing with clerical dust ... Yes! It must be that there, between reading denunciations for teachers and students, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and hung up an ironic view of being; Be that as it may, this is precisely this dressing in civilian and subsequent occurrence near Sobchak in new, non-chief times, became one of the best Russian jokes of the late twentieth century.

Bakhtin would call it the triumph of the carnival principle.

Work V.V. Putin on the development and strengthening of the foreign economic ties of St. Petersburg-this was already a real reprise of the mature master. One of the first, this unexpected humor was appreciated in those years by deputies of the local Legislative Assembly, which proposed to bring the above Putin criminal liability.

“You see,” he explained to me where it was ridiculous, one former St. Petersburg opera, “a state border, and in it - a hole the size of a Baltic shipping company!” I have many questions for Vladimir Vladimirovich ... - he said and drank more. Of course, I asked the opera: why not ask Putin these questions, since so much accumulated, but I did not understand this joke ...

Passing, like Gogol, the Petersburg period, we smoothly flow into the late, Moscow stage of Putin's creativity in the field of Russian joke, when Vladimir Vladimirovich boldly entered into literature from installations with rare earth metals.

He had a hitherto trailly silent, he spoke.

And everyone, well, literally everyone liked it at once! I must say that the debutant did not know such a unanimous recognition since the time of Ruslan and Lyudmila. It is all the more amazing that so far none of the theorists of the language has made an attempt to understand the secret of this instant success ...