Media – Cologne – Carolin Kebekus: Putin jokes have a liberating effect – Economy
Cologne (dpa) – Carolin Kebekus believes that making jokes about Russian President Vladimir Putin can have a liberating effect. “Being a comedian is quite useless in many situations, but sometimes it’s also quite good: to laugh briefly about a situation that scares you, and then also say, ‘Okay, the others think he’s shit too, we do are all on one side” that can do well,” said the comedian of the German Press Agency in Cologne. At the same time, it is interesting to realize that you live in a free country where such jokes are possible. “I can joke about Putin and nobody punishes me for it.”
The Russian President reacted like a freaked ex-boyfriend, said Kebekus. “There’s such an injured, unpredictable masculinity behind it.” That’s probably a joke. “What I always ask myself: What are his weak moments? He’s totally vain in any case. He also has fillers and botox and, I think, had his upper eyelids tightened. How bad is that when you’re someone , who pushes the fillers in him? One squirt and then you go to a prison camp. I also imagine him sitting there and thinking: “What do I actually want now? I would like to have a little more glow.”
Kebekus said she reacted with disbelief to the Russian attack on Ukraine. “I grew up knowing that my grandparents saw the war, that it was horrible, but I was born into a world where I was told, ‘We’ve all decided that there won’t be any more wars.’ If I used to ask my grandmother: “Will it come back?”, the answer came: “No, that won’t work at all.” I’ve been like a little kid saying, “Wait a minute, we said we’re not going to do that anymore!””
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