Kuba Wojewódzki
| Kuba Wojewódzki | |
|---|---|
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| Birth name | Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki |
| Born |
2 August 1963 Koszalin, Poland |
| Medium | television, radio, press |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Years active | 2002-present |
| Genres | Social satire, talk show |
| Website |
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Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkuba vɔjɛˈvut͡skʲi]; born 2 August 1963 in Koszalin, Poland) is a Polish journalist, TV personality, drummer, and comedian.
Career
Kuba Wojewódzki earned the nickname Kuba as a reference to Cuba, a country that had become part of the socialist bloc at the time of his youth. Wojewódzki was a judge on the Polish Idol. He also was the Polish representative on the World Idol on 25 December 2003.
In the 1980s, he was a member of punk bands called System and New Dada. Currently, he is a drummer in the band called Klatu.
Since 2006, he has been working for TVN.
He has his own TV show called Kuba Wojewódzki and is a judge on Mam talent!, the Polish edition of Britain's got talent and since 2011 also on X-Factor.
Controversy
He was criticized for being extremely harsh on X Factor contestants and for making racist comments. While translating for Nigerian-born auditionee John James Egwu who spoke limited Polish, he claimed that contestant had answered "I married a white woman and then ate her" went asked what he was doing in Poland, and mistranslated "I studied here" as "She was a bit gristly." Wojewódzki then encouraged the audience to laugh at the contestant.[1]
In his talk show, he explores numerous controversial issues. On one of his shows (aired on 25 March 2008), a cartoonist Marek Raczkowski inserted the Polish flag into dog faeces, referencing a scandal he created after his semi-serious statement about animal waste on public pavements. The incident was widely discussed by the media.[2] On his morning radio show for radio Eska Rock, in June 2011, he said that perhaps there should be "a national register of negroes"[3] and stated that that day's show was sponsored by the Warsaw branch of the Ku Klux Klan. His comments were condemned by members of ethnic minorities in Poland.[4] The radio station was fined 50,000 zloty and Wojewódzki's comments were described in the report of the radio authorities (Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji) as being "unambiguously racist" ("jednoznacznie rasistowskie").[5]
In October, 2013, Wojewódzki was injured by an unknown assailant who burned his face and neck with acid.[6] As revealed later by police, the fluid was not acid, it was a non-corrosive substance.[7][8]
TV Show
| Years | TV Show | Series | Television |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–2003, 2005 | Idol | I-II,IV | Polsat |
| 2003 | World Idol | - | Polsat |
| 2002-2006 | Kuba Wojewódzki | - | Polsat |
| 2006–present | Kuba Wojewódzki | - | TVN |
| 2007 | Taniec z gwiazdami (Polish version Dancing with the stars) | 'Best Of' episode | TVN |
| 2008–2010 | Mam talent! | I-III | TVN |
| 2011–present | X-Factor | I-present | TVN |
References
- ↑ Ed Wight's Column
- ↑ U Wojewódzkiego: polska flaga w psiej kupie. Jest protest! (On the Wojewódzki show, the Polish flag lands in dog poop. Outrage ensues!) (pl)
- ↑ Eska Rock ukarana za żarty z "Murzyna", TVN24, the phrase used was "krajowy rejestr Murzynów"
- ↑ Wojciech Karpieszuk, Kuba Wojewódzki straci pracę? Za chamstwo i rasizm Gazeta.pl 2011
- ↑ Wojewódzki "jednoznacznie rasistowski". Będzie kara, Gazeta.pl
- ↑ "Známého polského kritika církve polili kyselinou" (in Czech). novinky.cz. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ↑ UJAWNIAMY: Kuba Wojewódzki oblany zupełnie niegroźną substancją
- ↑ Piotr Halicki, Są wyniki badań cieczy, którą oblano Wojewódzkiego 25 paź 2013
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