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Date
12/03/2020
Author
Ирина Петровская
Source
Novaya Gazeta
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The era of degeneration

"International Pylorama" reached the international level

Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta"

To Tigran Keosayan, Glory came from where they did not expect. True, this glory from the category “fell under the horse”, but whether our hero will be able to “get rid of a slight fright” as the hero of Ilf and Petrov - time will tell.

The Moscow correspondent of the British newspaper The Times was so amazed at the sketch about Barack Obama in the latest issue of the International Pylorama, published on the NTV federal channel that he wrote an article about this. Other Western publications later wrote about this: Washington Post, Business Insider, The Sun.

On the new ones, for the first time joined the “creativity” of the once decent “boy from a good family”, his current television “experiments” make a stunning impression.

This simply cannot be, this is not even the bottom and not the place where the stinking cesspool knocked from below, the spectators-neofites think.

But they simply did not see other issues of the program and its sketches, although the “satirical project, the authors of which in a unique style successfully mix politics and humor” has existed on NTV for four years and there is nothing particularly ugly in the issue that glorified the “international sawmill”. Everything is as usual: wretched, stupid, stupid and most importantly - it is categorically not funny. Ashamed - yes. But not to the leader, and not to the authors, but to those who have the misfortune to see the obvious signs of degeneration of both the genre of political satire and humor on TV and representatives of the current "establishment", spiritual beacons and rulers of the Duma.

Against the backdrop of MP, the “full house” and “crooked mirror”, previously considered an apotheosis of vulgarity, seem thin things for true connoisseurs of the ridiculous, although their participants do not interfere with politics.

A husband who returned from a business trip, an incorrect wife, a lover in the closet - these are their eternal topics, and, right, it is in any case harmless than sketches and jokes in the “International Pyloram”.

In the latest issue, which raised the MP to an international level, also a lot of anything but a parody of Obama, but the authors of publications in the Western press were stunned primarily by a parody.

The reason for mockery, which caused a fragment of political correct Western journalists, was the book of memoirs of the former president of the United States. Before you get in touch with the actress depicting Obama, Keosayan cut, pressing himself with laughter: "He finished piss in the entrances ( so !!! - I.P. ), it means that the time of free has appeared." And then he already presented the “author” - “The Dark page of American history of Barack Obama”. A crooking actress with a face with a black paint appeared in the frame and, caricatured (a la African dance) dancing, performed a chorus from the Russian hit of the past years "I am a chocolate hare, I am an affectionate bastard." To the question of the host "None of your relatives wrote the book before you?" This character, a carpet language, replied: "None of my relatives knew how to write at all." Following the exquisite lines in the style of rap: "There was a simple small Barack Obama, / the entire state of Alabama voted for it."

The journalist The Times not only describes what he saw, struck him to the core, but also reminds:

Gazprom, which owns the NTV channel, is the main sponsor of the Champions League, and a similar racist statement can put UEFA in an awkward position.

The representative of the FARE organization (“Football against Racism in Europe”), the UEFA partner in the organization of anti -racist campaigns, told the British publication to be a statement: “Gazprom” must make a statement and give guarantees that such racist escapades on the TV channel he owned will no longer be repeated. Gazprom first refused to comment, and later his representative Sergei Kupriyanov reacted with one phrase-that de Gazprom does not participate in the editorial policy of NTV.

In addition, the newspaper sent a request to the chief editor of the International Channel RT (and part -time wife Keosayan) Margarita Simonyan, who does not deny her participation in the “International Pyloram” as its creative producer and the author of the script: “Does this spoil the international image of RT?”

Simonyan, unlike the laconic Gazprom, replied: “As a person who is part of an ethnic minority in Russia, Tigran regularly jokes on his large“ ethnic nose ”and his (mine) belonging to“ black ”(google, if you don’t know which ethnic groups are called“ blacks ”in Russia). The inability of the Times to understand the nuances of various ethnic features and attempts to publicize the birth injuries of the Anglo -Saxon world to a world in which there were no such injustices, are the visual signs of centuries -old racist imperialism. Racism simply changed color. "

In general, if in a simple way, the fool itself. How and why jokes over her own “big ethnic nose” are justified by the ugly racist attacks of her spouse to representatives of other ethnic groups - remained unclear. A direct question about reputational harm to RT from this kind of “jokes” all the more hung in the air.

However, one racist sketch "International Pylorama" was not limited. There were others - with the same shower: “In our country, there is no hatred of blacks ( so !!! - I.P. ), because the Russians are most grateful to two black - A.S. Pushkin and oil ”; “And soon football matches will not be held at all - they will simply award the victory with a team in which there are more blacks.”

In the same issue, Keosayan in his “unique” style inherent in him commented on Putin’s meeting with ambassadors: “This week the president accepted those whom others sent.” About the national clothes of the diplomatic representatives of the Arab states spoke out in the spirit that one came to the reception with a towel on his head from the hotel room, and the other wound a whole sheet with a duvetail. The lack of handshakes and the distance between Putin and diplomatic corps explained as follows: “Ethics, but there was still not enough to pose from these ambassadors of Zamorsky.”

Here, literally, regardless of the faces, he walked through the participants of the Summit of the Big Twenty. “Judging by the appearance of the Japanese, he smoked a lot. And he smoked because he was worried about the smoking ”; “Judging by the tile on the wall, the Korean pushed the speech from the toilet in the shopping center”; “Macron was, as always, beautiful - reminiscent and controversial”; “Judging by the stars on the wall, Erdogan sat against the background of an empty bottle of cognac”; “The Saudi king put on a protective mask on his head. Nobody pointed out to him a mistake, because according to the ancient Saudi tradition, people who indicate a mistake do not live for a long time ”; "Merkel, by tradition, came to the summit in the elegant jacket of her grandfather."

But Putin, whom Keosayan, after his wife, calls the respectful word “boss”, is always a handsome man and a hero: “At some point, the boss so defiantly squeezed a fist that the rest of the rest clenched something else.” In other words, ours is the best!