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 so much and then also to say: ‘Okay, the others think he’s shit too, we are all on one side, “that can do you good,” said the comedian of the German Press Agency in Cologne. At the same time, it is encouraging 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. “It’s such an offended, unpredictable masculinity behind it.” “What I always wonder: What are his weak moments? In any case, he’s totally vain. He also has fillers and botox and I think he had his upper eyelids tightened. How bad is that when you’re the one putting the fillers in him? Once sprayed and then you go to the penal camp. I also imagine him sitting there and thinking: “What do I actually want now? I’d like 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?”, then the answer came: “No, that won’t work at all.” I’ve already been like a little child who says to itself: “Wait a minute, we said, we don’t do that anymore!”
