Cartoon humor

This month, the TV channels did not exactly please, but they offered several notable premieres. One of the most discussed was the new animated program “Personality Cartoon,” where cartoon celebrities try to make something similar to the jokes of the “ProjectorParisHilton” hosts. The humor of the “cartoons” still leaves much to be desired. But even he is good in comparison with what happened in the new NTV film “The Pinochet Couple”. Here we were promised partisan humor, but the jokes turned out to be either very deep inside or old. The only thing that could not fail to please was the acting talent of Yuri Chursin and the sketch about how the Russian audience loves and watches the Kultura TV channel.

“Respect and respect to Vladimir Putin!” - young rappers shouted and threw baseball caps into the air at the final of the Muz-TV show “Battle for Respect”. It's just a joke - the Prime Minister of Russia came to the youth channel and talked with its inhabitants. True, this did not add points to Muz-TV. The channel’s highest-rated programs for the reporting week, including the Saturday broadcast with Putin, were the cartoon “An Extraordinary Match” (among Russian viewers) and the psychological game Mafia (among Muscovites).

The broadcast of the TV Center program “Temporarily Available” turned out to be quite good, where Andrei Malakhov tried to explain the laws of the existence of popular television to the presenters Dmitry Gubin and Dmitry Dibrov. And with brutal seriousness they asked him why the host of the talk show “Let Them Talk” read Daria Dontsova and whether he was involved in choosing scandalous topics, and also made fun of him in all sorts of ways. As a result, Malakhov turned out to be the most sympathetic and sincere in this conversation, who, by the way, when asked what kind of monument he would like to see on his grave, answered: “Better build a playground.” For some reason it seemed that there was no guile in his words at all.

Now about those events that a simple TV viewer might not have noticed, but that doesn’t make them any less important. There have been several notable media moves this month. Mikhail Lesin, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on media, was fired with a scandalous comment, Rodnyansky, the former president of the STS Media holding, was sued by his former partners, and now he risks losing about $100 million, and Tatyana Paukhova was asked from the post of editor-in-chief of the TV channel. Culture,” which she headed for more than ten years, calling in her place the producer of “Liquidation” and “Taras Bulba” Sergei Shumakov, who was in charge of all the programming on “Russia.” Now there is definitely no time for jokes and humor. Let's see how these decisions affect the television audience.

Nadezhda STEPANOVA, “Trud”