Olga Lipińska worked for TVP from 1955 to 2005. She was not only a director, but also a screenwriter of popular TV cabarets, which were the highlight of the public television schedule for several dozen years. Between her successive satirical programs, which viewers collectively call Olga Lipińska’s cabaret after many years, sometimes there were gaps of several years. In the late 70s, such a pause appeared after the intervention of disgruntled representatives of the Soviet embassy.
Kobuszewski told a joke on the vision. Because of him, they took Lipińska’s cabaret off the air
he was a great actor and definitely one of Olga Lipińska’s favorite performers. As described by Kobusz. Jan Kobuszewski from the other side of the stage”, the director had a special soft spot for him and forgave him for jokes and offenses that others would not get away with. cast that the rehearsal was canceled that day Kobuszewski explained in conversations that the essence of Lipińska’s cabarets are her scripts, and the rest was a matter of really arduous rehearsals and carefully prepared recordings.
“I would rather call it a socio-political project. We were strong opponents of what was happening in Poland at that time, but because there was censorship, there was also a double bottom. And that was a great joy, because the cabaret cannot speak directly. There must be a certain persiflage “doubt” – relates the words of the actor Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz. How much Lipińska’s programs referred to socially significant issues is well demonstrated by the example of a short but fateful joke that Kobuszewski told on the air.
It was 1978, and it only took six words on a satire/entertainment show to elicit a reaction from people at high levels. Jan Kobuszewski told a joke about dumplings: “Who asked for Russian dumplings? Nobody, they came by themselves.”
Employees of the Soviet embassy found in these words a strong allusion to the fact that Soviet troops were stationed in Poland. Surprisingly, the then president of TVP Maciej Szczepański, called Bloody, did not fully understand what the problem was when Lipińska explained the matter to him. He happened to defend television employees against political reprimands and whims of PZPR apparatchiks. To those who reported indignantly after a joke about dumplings, he was to say: “Come on, artists are idiots. They don’t know what world they live in” – describes the author of the book “Kobusz. Jan Kobuszewski from the other side of the stage”.
Source: Gazeta
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