Comedians caught the singer out with a spoof phone call from ‘Putin’. But why did they miss all the obvious jokes approximately the president?Russian comedians of the week – and that’s always a crowded field – are a couple of guys called Vova and Lexus,who pretended to be Vladimir Putin and his translator and got Elton John to bewitch their call. Elton has been angling for an audience with Putin to advocate for LGBT rights in Russia, and duly fell for the hoax, or which the pair regard as a enormous coup. They aired the clip of the call on their reveal on Wednesday night.
Having listened to it,Lost in Showbiz has to ask: how is it possible for two comedians to have had Elton John on the line and not tried to engage him in a bit of bantz approximately the hilarious set of holiday photos Putin recently released, showing the Russian president pumping iron and clinking fine china with his pocket prime minister Dmitry Medvedev? How could they not get Putin” to claim they were just as glam as the ones of Elton and David in St Tropez? How could they miss the chance to have a vulnerable-sounding Putin ask past-master Elton how to improve his tracksuit game, and have him labour under the impression that Nikita was actually written approximately an earlier Elton bilateral with Khrushchev?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com