he made his debut on the cabaret stage exactly 50 years ago. Although he got his first role in the times of the deep Polish People’s Republic and since then he has been one of the most recognizable satirists in Poland, reading his words one gets the impression that not much has changed since then.
Jerzy Kryszak speaks bitterly about the treatment of artists
Jerzy Kryszak, in an interview with the Plejada website, could not help but raise a topic that affected a significant part of the satirical community – the conflict with the Polsat station. Shortly before the parliamentary elections last autumn, the television withdrew cabarets from its schedule. The artists warned that no one had talked to them about this decision, and they had not heard not only the word “I’m sorry” but also proper explanations for a long time. The blockade of cabarets on Polsat lasted about half a year and ended partially in May with the broadcast of the best cabaret performances of previous years from the SuperHit gala in Sopot. Kryszak was moved by the way artists were treated in this conflict by a richer and stronger entity, namely private television. He claims that although decades have passed since he began his career, little has changed in his approach to artists:
We will definitely have to sign contracts that would not condemn us to failure. For a long time, contracts were signed such that an actor could be called a “slut”. Even the films from the 70s, 80s and 90s have always been the same: that the creator or actor is a nobody, a toy in the hands of every producer. I think that these contracts will have to be changed so that both entities are equal in their rights – said Jerzy Kryszak bitterly, but with hope.
Meanwhile, slowly but surely, cabarets are returning to Polsat’s airwaves. They still won’t get their own place in the schedule, which was the case last year. , in which Jerzy Kryszak himself will also take part. However, Polsat viewers will not see the artists whose sketches caused the most political comments last year – Kabaret Młodych Panów or Kabaret Moralny Niepokoju.
Source: Gazeta
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