Tonight With Vladimir Putin (2019– ) User Reviews

Odd and very, very short.

[Mark_a_Wood · 3/10 · 27 June 2019]

One of the world's leading film and television visual effects companies has the motion capture technology available to film a comedian performing the role of Vladimir Putin and to create an animated 3-D caricature of the Russian Premier around him - but just because you can do something doesn't automatically mean that you should do it.

Comedian Natt Tapley (and Gbemisola Ikumelo as Meghan Markle) takes on the role of Putin as chat show host for these two pilot episodes interviewing two celebrity guests per episode. However, the running times for each episode are so short that there is barely any time to for CGI host and guest to say much to each other. Part way through a fairy princess version of the Duchess of Sussex comes out and takes questions from the sparse audience. And that's about all there is to it - there is little time for anything much to happen before the end credits roll leaving the viewer to wonder what on earth was that all about?

Bewildered Broadcasting Cringe

[MogwaiMovieReviews · 1/10 · 24 June 2019]

Who on earth thought THIS was a good idea? A cartoon of another country's leader interviewing D-list celebrities in front of a tiny and obviously confused live audience (with canned laughter and extra applause added to bolster the lukewarm response)?

I guess I might be out of the loop but I don't get the angle it's coming from at all: what its point is or why it's supposed to be funny. It's clear that there's a set of approved political assumptions on display here that I simply don't understand. Are we all supposed to specifically and mandatorily hate Putin? All of us? Without exception? Why? In this time of never-greater political division at home, why is a publicly funded British 'comedy' show singlemindedly trying to whip up distrust and derision for a world leader thousands of miles away? What other head of state would they devote an entire show to mocking in this way? (Aside from Trump, of course, but that goes without saying). One from the Middle East? Cuba? North Korea? Venuzuela perhaps? Of course not. That would be racist. Or at least Islamophobic. Best play safe and toe that PC line.

The nearest thing to this abomination, really, is Stephen Colbert's desperate and desperately unfunny "Our Cartoon President" propaganda handout, and it's almost as cringey. Both are shows that, in even 10 years time, people are going to find hard to believe ever even existed at all.

A perplexing disaster.

Can I say: poopy?

[Darth_Andy · 1/10 · 2 July 2019]

To describe this as utter, risible, poopy is to do a disservice to the word poopy.