Kirkorov laughed at himself brightly and unbanally: Philip is forgiven

Here he is in the show “Stars” on NTV. Meaning: there is a star and there is a KVN team. This is how they interact with each other, whether they get along or not, on the contrary – that’s the point. The second meaning: to hit KVN in the cheeks. So that it doesn’t get too complicated and doesn’t become, you know, a monopoly on our TV. And the third meaning, quite meaningless, is to make everyone laugh. In fact, this meaning is the most difficult.

Philip has a team called “Wrestlers”. Those same KVN wrestlers, very oriental people. Are they funny in themselves? Well, yes, sometimes, in places. But with Kirkorov it’s a song!

Philip laughed at himself so coolly, brightly, unbanally. This is a must see! It’s in his position to laugh like that… Well, there’s nothing else left.

He laughed at himself, at his Alla Borisovna (so subtly, lovingly, latently, in a second sense), at his… Well, why feel sorry for her, this orientation. Maybe she was made for a good laugh. However, what do we care about his orientation? Only he laughed at her more than anything else.

Philip is forgiven, that’s clear. Maybe for this he met with someone, called someone, transferred his fee somewhere, and went to perform in Donbass. But the best thing he did was laugh at himself. And this is a sign of a very smart person. When you laugh like that, all your enemies fall into disarray. They have nothing to say at all, they just don’t know how to laugh.

It is not a sin to laugh at yourself in any situation. Laugh, clown, you can do it. Philip casually made KVN running on a parallel channel, his team, the jury, the whole hall and us, the audience. But he also sings! And no soundtrack at all. However, this is already a bonus – Kirkorov singing.

He showed that if there are any more problems in his cherished genre of pop music, he can go into humor, battle, and stand-up. He can do it, he can do it.

And here is the cherry on the cake, what is called “laughter through tears”, the highest aerobatics. This is when Zhukov in the jury (“Hands up!”) suddenly, like a piano in the bushes, showed off Potekhin’s friend, who had not performed there for a long time. Zhukov shed a stingy manly tear, but no, he just burst into tears. But this is also humor, you know?

In general, not to “kill” the mockingbird, but to love it – that’s the whole point of this show. Maybe Philip Kirkorov needs love like no one else.

SING, SWALLOW

“Let him hear her sing…” No, not Katyusha. Who? Yulia Peresild in person. I heard. I turned on Margulis’ “Kvartirnik” into the night and was stunned. You know, at first I didn’t even recognize her. But to sing like that…

She reminded me of the young Pugacheva, no more and no less. She has such a voice, simply magnificent! This is not the main thing: she sang with her soul. She sang to herself. She sang…

I don’t know what kind of actress she is. They say it’s good. Just recently she flew into space. This is not the main thing! Just think: Space, now this won’t surprise anyone. Space is just a fact of her biography. But that’s how she sang – really, Cosmos. I’m not exaggerating, I’m not joking, that’s how I feel.

Sing, Yulechka, sing! Sing on. Maybe this is the most important thing in which you express yourself in this life. Thank you dear.

BORIS ABRAMOVICH CHICHIKOV

The first of April is the birthday of not only Vladimir Pozner, but also another wonderful person. The most wonderful thing. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol turned 1 April

215 years old. On this occasion, “Dead Souls” directed by Mikhail Shveitser was shown at “Culture”.

Then a little about Schweitzer. This is a classic, a classic of the genre. He is the best in film interpretation of Russian classics. Nobody else did it the way he filmed it.

Although Schweitzer began (together with his beloved wife Sofia Milkina) in the genre of avant-garde socialist realism – “Time, forward!”. But then I switched to just the classics: “Little Tragedies” by Pushkin, “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Tolstoy… These are simply masterpieces, on the level of great originals.

Dead Souls may not live up to Gogol. But a miracle happened there. Have you seen this Chichikov-Kalyagin? Do you understand what happened? Doesn’t he remind you of anyone?

“Dead Souls” was filmed in 1984. Yes, Orwell’s 1984. Great dystopia, that’s the roll call. And also: “Will the Soviet Union exist until 1984?” Andrey Amalrik. But these are all allusions, visions. Some kind of Gogolism!

Look, here Chichikov-Kalyagin looks just like Berezovsky. Hello, Boris Abramovich! How could Schweitzer then, in that mossy USSR, under Chernenko, see the new Chichikov in the new Russia?

Chichikov bought and then traded dead souls from Gogol. With us, Berezovsky traded in the souls of prisoners.

That’s right, Gogol is more alive than all the living. Boris Abramovich Chichikov or Pyotr Ivanovich Berezovsky, what’s the difference now? Eh, Rus’-troika, where are you rushing? Give an answer. Doesn’t give an answer.

MESSAGE FROM THE PAST

“Culture” showed the last interview of Leonid Utesov. It’s 1982. Utesov is already 87, but he was wonderful there.

He sang his best songs simply superbly, read poetry, and Lermontov’s in Odessa. Laughed and cried. And my poems, of course.

Very soon he was gone, this man. They don’t make them like that anymore, they don’t exist in nature. Very Soviet, very patriotic and incredibly talented. But here is one phrase… just one phrase of his. Presenter Olga Dobrokhotova asked what he was thinking about now. “About peace,” said Utesov… “People should not kill each other. People must live.”

The war in Afghanistan had been going on for three years now. And people died there, ours and Afghans. What Utesov said is a message from one of the best people in Russia to all of us, right now. Let’s listen to him.