Englishman Reacts to... Stanisław The Lorry Driver | Kabaret AMM, Kabaret Smile & Young Man Kaberet 

It's funny cause driver didn't expect that guys from other groups will join this. That's why he react weird when second hippie show up on the stage :D

I think in Poland black face is not considered very funny, but it's not forbidden, probably because the problem of racism was not that big in Poland history, so they don't have a problem with that

Poland has little to do with racism. We don't have such an obsession or problem here because of skin color. Poland has never colonized other countries, so the issue of racism based on skin color has practically escaped us. Painting your face black in Poland means the same thing as a role in such skits. This is not intended to be offensive in any way. If black people are offended, there is something wrong with them. Once, in one of the programs "Your Face Sounds Familiar" in the Polish edition, one of the celebrities chose a black rapper to play and he did it very well. Instead of appreciating the workmanship, the rapper focused on the fact that the white one was painted black.

This performance was improvised. That’s why it seems weird and chaotic 😅

In Anglo-Saxon countries blackfacing used to be used to offend other people, therefore it became forbidden. I Poland it used to be used as innocent jokes, thus it's not problem. Some time ago there was an affair when one of Western portals noticed Polish blackfacing and told the whole world about it. It wasn't from this cabaret, but it doesn't matter. Everyone was shocked. However it is a lack of knowledge of intercultural differences. There never was slavery in Poland. In times of slavery Poland had its own, internal issues.

I really love your films, because i'm a Polish guy who lives permanently in England for years, as i love also polish cabarets like these ones I'm often trying to tell some polish jokes to my English friends. Indeed not everyone is easy to translate, there's need to explain something in the midlle to put situation in propper context. It;s not so easy therefore big respect to you and person who prepared the subtitles for you to get the context.

15:00 It's Poland, we are not America we don't have sick obssesion about racism. We don't search racism everywhere like americans or others.

Black faced yea about 10-15 years ago , u have to remember , finding blackman in Poland is like finding a unicorn so who gonna complain?

In most cases when they mentioned some city, its the city where they actually plays. So that's funny for people who are living in this city and come for kabaret.

In original sketch Marcin from Ani Mru Mru was not present. It was an unexcepted guest for Stanisław :) Wordplay with Odbytów is the same level as Uranus.

What made me laugh the most in this cabaret was the look on your face when you saw the passenger with 'blackface' :D Its not a thing in Poland

I like that you use the word "star". Kabaret performers as well recognizible as actors, Singers, youtubers. They dont get the rage or huge advertisement contracts in(with few exceptions) but they are widly polular. Not every name but every face is well know by kabaret name, by the skit they do. For example the ani mru mru physical comedy guy was recognized as Toffeeck character for many years.

In Western Europe and the US, if you want a black character in your sketch, you find a black person to play that role. In Poland, painting someone black is much easier. You're not gonna see that in a serious production, but for small fun projects it is viewed as okay.

You got that table with the broken legs almost perfectly 😊

Unfortunately, nowadays people get offended by even the smallest sh*t (but it's good that in Poland we are not AS obsessed with skin colour as others). I really miss the days of skits like this one, or 'Tygodnik Moralnego Niepokoju', or 'Little Britain', where they absolutely rocked and no one started a contempt lawsuit. I often have to bite my tongue, because in today's world, any joke can get you in trouble. Soon the sense of humour will completely disappear and we will become a gray, smileless world. The parties/groups fight for freedom of speech and expression, etc., especially the LGBT+++ lobby, but as soon as you dare to make a joke about them, lawsuits will follow. Sick.

Lublin is a city in Poland. Lublin is also a brand of Polish delivery vehicle. And this performance was probably in Lublin.

Your second attempt on "stół z powyłamywanymi nogami" was really good 🙂

One of my favourite Polish sketches. Couldn't stop giggling when saw it the first time on TV

Usually Kabarets in their sketches mention the cities they are performing in. So probably that sketch was taking place in Lublin. Also, both Smile and Ani-Mru-Mru come from Lublin, so it might be just that.

24:26 Congrats, you made it!

0:46 Those "references" are not necessarily true. The laugh is usually occurs, because the performer tells something (kind of random) negative about the city where the kabaret currently performs in. This is worse without the whole thing, but something alike... "So you did get kick in the ear on the street. Typical London."

7:19 It may sound strange to others, but he simply makes a little rhyme for each name, and if you listen carefully, it actually rhymes.

This performance by three cabarets was the responsibility of the audience. Improvisation for a given term "Stanisław the truck driver", i.e. inventing the entire performance on the fly during the performance. In Poland, artists from various cabarets quite often conduct such performances on a topic given by the audience during the ongoing performance.

CB radio was very popular among Polish truckers.

Smile have a super funny series of sketches about Marilyn Manson's ordinary life 🤣 or maybe it was several versions of one skit.. anyway at least two of those were great

It would be great if someone translated Piotr Bałtroczyk's performances into English. Bałtroczyk's first fundamental thesis: Everyone knows that the vodka bottle will eventually be empty, but it is always a surprise. ru-vid.com?search_query=Piotr+Ba%C5%82troczyk

basically the entire sketch was an improv, Stanisław was supposed to be alone on the stage

15:22 yeah it is acceptable in Poland in some way nowadays - you see "people of color" (gosh i hate that term) are still minority (far below 10%), especially when it comes to cabaret, so if they want to make fun of racism they have to go for this "black face", but at least it's not like how "original term came out from", so they usually do not making fun of them (besides little bit of an accent) but like i said their main purpose is to make fun of racism, that this is ridiculous and bad in general. Fun fact here is that because of such approach and culture, Poles have been called racists especially after one episode of "Your face sounds familiar", where celebrities suppose to imitate some random music stars and of course someone got a man of dark skin while being white... What is funny about that is that everyone in Europe was offended but person who was impersonated by that celebrity said that this was great performance and he doesn't mind at all...

It was improvisation. The comedian playing Stanisław did not expect any other participants in the skit.

1:13 Lublin is in fact one of the safer cities in Poland (among those with over 300,000 inhabitants) - it has an average of 22 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants (e.g. Wrocław 35, Gdańsk 32, Warsaw 30, Poznań 28, Szczecin 28, Kraków 27, Łódź 24,) . The real inside joke is that the Smile cabaret (but also Ani Mru Mru) are from Lublin :) - and I think this event is also recorded in Lublin, so it's a nod to the audience :)

A literal translation like the one here is much better than the translator's jokes, as was the case with previous translations. Good job.

crime rate in Lublin is not that much of a deal here. Its just that the performance took place in Lublin and that guy from the beginning is a member of Kabaret Smile witch by the way was formed in Lublin

To mój ulubiony sketch.

W tym roku Pol'and'rock Festvial odbędzie się na lotnisku Czaplinek-Broczyno.

A few things: 1. Specific city references most commonly mean they sketch is played in that city. That's why there's always an outburst of laughter from the audience as most of them are locals and are always happy for a shout-out from their favourite cabaret. 2. Yes, whenever there's a cross-over between different cabarets they go out of their way to corpse each other. A lot of ad-lib is very common as are the references to the target's former sketches, especially if there were also fumbles involved. 3. Poland has never been a colonial empire neither did we practice large-scale racial slavery (we did have slaves in Middle Ages but most of them were POWs turned serfs, so typically white; and our royalty brought in small numbers of POC slaves to make their courts feel more "exotic", but it was never in thousands like in the US). As such, our history with blackface is different than in case of UK or US. It doesn't have the negative connotations or intentions and more often than not it was simply a device used due to the obvious demographic aspect: we didn't have that many black people in Poland and those we did have were rarely profesional actors/comedians. That's why when we needed a black character portrayed in a film or a sketch (typically to show that character's uniqueness in Polish society), blackface was used as it was easier and cheaper to paint a profesional actor than to find a black person who was fluent in Polish and teach them to act from scratch. With EU's open borders since early 2000s that also resulted in increased demographic mixup, our own black actors slowly but steadily replaced blackface in film and the practice only remained alive in cabarets - typically 3-5 white guys having to play all kinds of roles. However, for the past decade or so it's not really a thing there either anymore, mainly due to globalisation of our culture via youtube that resulted in more criticism from the West where blackface is considered much more offensive than it is in Poland (again, due to vastly different historical connotations).

Oryginally this sketch was only with Stanisł◘aw and Radziu, but that day, guy who played Stanisław had Birthday, and other guys made him a surprise. Also it is so funny, because about half of it was iprovised, like Eustachy's and darker fellow's dialogues, and jokes. that's why when Eustachy asks "Is it far?" Stanisław says "About 15 minutes. Try" - is it far to the end? about 15 minutes, try to think another jokes Great video as usual :)

You should make watermark or some logo bcs people are stealing video from you.

Kostrzyn joke is that we have couple Kostrzyn in poland Kostrzyn nad Odrą is town where Woodstock was, and there is another Kostrzyn (village or very small town) near Poznań

I'm polish for me blackface is when you want ofend someone. I have black uncle, and he laught when he watch sketch witch "black makeup", maybe because he is from Nigeria

"blackface" is not okay only in anglospahre.

Zdarzyło mi się lata temu jechać za namową koleżanki wspólnie z nią autostopem. Zrezygnowaliśmy z jazdy pociągiem osobowym. Trasa na stopa zajęła nam tyle czasu co gdybyśmy tym pociagiem jechały (czyli 5 godzin). Najdłużej czekałyśmy kwadrans na podwiezienie. Ale akurat przyszło nam czekać wtedy na jakiejś niemal wymarłej wiosce, gdzie najszybciej przyjechał traktor albo jakieś małżeństwo, które nas podwiozło kilometr drogi, bo akurat skręcali. Więc już się zaczęłyśmy zastanawiać czy tam czasem nie utkniemy do nastepnego dnia😂😅. Miałyśmy duże szczęście, że podczas dalszej podróży zabrał nas kierowca tira, który dużo jeździ, ale rzadko kogokolwiek zabiera - dla nas zrobił wyjątek.

There was blackface last year in tv. Nobody cares and nobody get offended. In Poland, it does not matter as much as in the UK or USA

To po prostu mechanik umazany smarem 😂😂😂

In England Nero/Murzyn in a track brings a fail day, he just shows respect for a new person, surely recognized somone is different colour of the skin.

That's right, you have to come to our Woodstock Pol'and'Rock Festival August 1-3, 2024 at Czaplinek-Broczyno airport. Love and music, 3 days of 24h music.

I would say why it's okay for us in Poland to do Black face is probably the fact that There are probably not many dark skinned comics that could speak Polish fluently enough for audience to understand.

I don't know if you understood the socks joke. "White are free. Black with payment" it's basically a slavery joke

Ten skecz to jest improwizacja

POLAND loves Your Translator ❤

Blackface is completly normal. It is even common on 6th of January parades, where usually one of kings is portrayed as African, not in Warsaw though, cuz they are leftards and have more real Blacks than the rest of Poland, so they employ them. Few years ago a journalist painted himself brown and went to March of Independence to prove its racism, but noone touched him, so he just wrote he had felt anxious.

Such dialogues really take place on CB

Polecam ci obejrzeć: kabaret skeczów męczących - Jadwiga paździerz w sądzie

I'm going back home by train now,guys are sleeping, I somehow can't sleep, I saw the sunrise in Warsaw, it was something beautiful... but always prefer the sunset, it's magical and those colors... the sunset is a sign that its coming a soothing and magical night😊and the actors should win an oscar for this performance😂....i laughted like a bever😂

In Poland there was no colonialism nor racism so dressing as a girl, a black person or a child was perceived equally innocent since it was not intended to be offensive to anyone. Also calling someone "murzyn" was not offensive until translations from english started. Actually there is a TV show "Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo (polish version of "Your Face Sounds Familiar") where you could've impersonated famous singers regardless their age gender or race. This year under obligation from the producer of the original series an acress Ola Szwed, being black herself, got only dark skin vocalists. It happended supposedly to "avoid racial seggregation". What is it if not a DEFINITION of a segregation based on race. In my opinion this is crazy. Check out Maria Tyszkiewicz singing Rihanna a few years back doing a really great performance. Today it'd impossible due to this pseudo correctness.

It always amuses me. I have watched many times.

I may be wrong, but this reference to Lublin in the performance may be related to the fact that this particular performance was in Lublin.

20:57 He forgot to add that these suppositories were intended for better sleep. The joke is funnier

I appreciate that none of them burst out laughing, they just played their roles seriously until the end... guys played great, everyone was funny, those two in wigs are the world champions hahahaha, that black guy hahaha didnt do anything special but i was laughing totally at him and his faces....and Staszek, haha ​​won all the competitionsxD.....i will tell the orgasm joke to everyone i meet ,because its great.....

Yes it was mostly improvisation.

people are mean, they expect nobody knows what, but the joy lies in simplicity, simplicity of life, not making life difficult with complicated words, requirements, desires... but enjoying the smallest moments and trifles, because if there are many of them, we will be happy.... let's not wait all our lives for "one big wow" because we will never get it... a happy life is about enjoying the moments, the little things... that's where real happiness lies... they made me laugh a lot, the boys' faces and their game, it was as simple and fun as it should be 😊

Greetings from Lublin

All that performance was improvised. They just set up characters and the rest was improvised - even jokes. Lublin is really nice - they just been joking about that city because performance was there. :)

Jeśli ktoś czarnoskóry pomaluje się na biało to się obrazisz? nie? no to my tak samo do tego podchodzimy w drugą stronę bo czemu by nie. Jeśli nigdy nie byliśmy rasistami możemy nawet udawać azjatów czy indian. to dla nas nic złego

Cześć Legende? I don't get it and I'm Polish 😅 You mean like Hi legends? It would be Cześć legendy or legendarni then. But I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

yeah!!!! My name is here 🙃btw one of the best "skechs"(?), kabaret smile is my favourite kabaret for ever 😆

It's important to say, that the previous sketch they played was about black people and racism, so the actor who played black here didn't dress for this specially, the joke wasn't intended. And that's why Andrzej (a car mechanic) has a dirty face. And this was an improvisation, of course :)

The thing about Lublin is that this was recorded in Lublin. The people reacted like that at the AMM member is also because the regular version of this sketch doesn't have other cabaret cameos. That sketch was recorded in 2014, so not too long ago and blackface actually is not that acceptable - whenever it was done in the Polish version of Your Face Sounds Familiar, it was always controversial.

Pozdrawiam 👍

Kostrzyń nad Odrą - Polish Woodstock later Polandrock was here thats why hippies go there with lorry driver because many of them dont have moneys for train ticket - autostop was popular in this times also

Yeah sure, there's nothing wrong with blackface in Poland. we don't cling to American history to create Polish culture lol ;D

See the skit Paranienormalni Mariolka at the SPA

Idziesz w złą stronę z polskimi kabaretami, Smile jest bardzo dobry, AMM też, ale niektóre skecze są dla mało wymagającej publiczności. Odkryj kabaret Hrabi.

15:16 I think it's because we have a greater distance from each other and our surroundings than across the sea; Even minorities in Poland are not sowflke imo.

Teraz też mam gile 🤣🤣

Kabarety czy skecze mogą się śmiać ze wszystkich i wszystkiego. Jaj ktoś nie ma dystansu do siebie to ma problem. Śmiejmy się a nie walczmy.

This is improv. Versions of og sketches with guests usually are. Its not that funny, especially if you dont know the original. You should really watch some TEY, thats the pinnacle of Polish cabarets. Hard to translate tho.

The corpsing from pretty much all of them is great right? :)

Why is "Kabaret Młodych Panów" translated to "Young Man Kabaret". (Why not "Men"?)

Lublin is completly normal. He talks about it, because the show takes place in Lublin. They always make refferences to the cities, where they are :)

I'm shocked that you said "powyłamywanymi" correctly, my brother had a problem with it until he was 16, but maybe because he has a mathematical mind and you have a humanistic

Since only one person mentioned it and it seems to go unnoticed -this skit is 95% improvised, Stanislaw (driver) was not even aware of guest appearance and while it is a bit of re-annacting of one of the best known 'Smile' performances it diverges completely from that and makes like 1 or 2 'winks' at the audience - this is the reason why it is maybe not that funny as other skits that are keeping tight with the script. About other topic which was mentioned a lot of times already - in Poland blackface is not considered racist, many things viewed in US/west as racist are not really seen as one in Poland - and there is numerous reasons for that. Polish people generally like black humour, ten to have no regard for politicall corectness (which is good is you ask me in the present world that is a bit upside-down) and most of all - have no connection to the main 'roots of racism' - slavery, apertheid, collonisation, more so - polish citizens were enslaved themselves couple of times in most recent centuries - this is why idea of 'making amendmendts in place of our ancestors' is funny or straight offensive to us. To hear more irony straight from the cards of the history - polish army helped to establish first black republic in history - and if you did not do that already - look up polish role in the Haiti revolution, which resulted in polish people recieveing a title of "the White Negroes of Europe" from Haiti's head of state :)

Hey rob watch neonowka - uchodzcy z dubaju😏

It terms of cities, it's usually *whatever city the performance is in*, but there are few stereotypes, namely Sosnowiec and Radom being shitholes

Rob have vlog with Woodstock event :)

The joke about Lublin simply comes from the fact that this sketch is performed in Lublin. There's nothing special in this city itself. For example when different cabaret made sketch called "Niebo" (Heaven) in City of Bytom God promised Poles highway from Bytom..... To Piekary Śląskie (300m apart from each other). But of course only locals will get it. Someone from Warsaw will only know that both Bytom and Piekary Śląskie are somewhere in Silesia but don't know where exactly.

WTF 2.30 min of commercials before a clip ????

You appreciated these cameos and you didn't appreciate a cameo in Alibaba by AMM?

Dark humour:)

It's sad that someone chose it to represent polish cabaret.

Yes, it is acceptable, we are not uk 😂

Hello Rob, let's go

15:15 Why shouldn't it? It's just acting. If you can dress up as a woman, or as a priest, or as a policeman, or as a Bawarian, why should there be any exception for an African? I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's supposed to be funny. They're not mocking or belittling. And it's not that they could just hire an actual African to play that role, could they?

Meeen. You dont get polish humor. Its mostly hyperbolic and ironic. 2nd thing, polsih people have a lot distanse to themself, and if you in Poland they treat you like one of them. So if you have problems with joking about yourself its yours not ouers. Its just jokes.

Nothing wrong with a white person playing a dark skin character. Never meant to be offensive. Men play women, adults play kids, adults play elderly people - IT'S A KABARET!, That's the whole point, to go over the edge, to emphasise the characteristics of either certain group of people or race.

I don't understand this fuss about "blackface". The guy plays a black man, so he smears himself with shoe polish and that's it. How should he characterize himself as a black man? Poland had no colonies, much less black slaves. So we're not phobic about it.

watch smile-balkony or tłumacz jezyka kobiecego

You must sin: Kabaret Smile Marlyn Manson.

"Black Face" in Poland its not funny because is "black". Funny in that are OUR REACTIONS. In that case: Reaction of a simply truck driver, right-propaganda lighty issued, who propably, first time in his life, saw a black person. We are funny in that. Not a "black guy".

Stanisław character is like that. Silly jokes, weird, not funny etc. Not everyone like him.

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