Kuba Wojew�dzki

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Kuba Wojew�dzki

Birth name
Jakub Wladyslaw Wojew�dzki
Born
2 August 1963 (age 55)
Koszalin, Poland
Medium
television, radio, press
Nationality
Polish
Years active
2002-present
Genres
Social satire, talk show
Website
kuba.tvn.pl
Jakub Wladyslaw Wojew�dzki known as Kuba Wojew�dzki (Polish pronunciation: ['kuba
v?j?'vut?sk?i]; born 2 August 1963 in Koszalin, Poland) is a Polish journalist, TV
personality, drummer, and comedian.

Contents
1
Career
1.1
Controversy
2
TV Show
3
References
4
External links
Career[edit]
Wojew�dzki 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 Wojew�dzki and is a judge on Mam talent!, the
Polish edition of Britain's got talent and since 2011 also on X-Factor.
Controversy[edit]
He was criticized by people, who do not understand his sens of humor and real
intentions, 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" when asked what he was doing in Poland, and mistranslated "I
studied here" as "She was a bit gristly." Wojew�dzki 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, in the protest against littering public places and criticizing
owners who do not clean after their pets. He tried to send a message that other
nations are more responsible in that matter. 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 Wojew�dzki'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, Wojew�dzki claimed to be hurt by an unknown assaulter who burned
his face and neck with acid.[6] As revealed later by the police, the fluid was not
acid, it was a non-corrosive substance.[7][8]
TV Show[edit]
Years
TV Show
Series
Television
2002�2003, 2005
Idol
I-II,IV
Polsat
2003
World Idol
-
Polsat
2002-2006
Kuba Wojew�dzki
-
Polsat
2006�present
Kuba Wojew�dzki
-
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[edit]
^ Ed Wight's Column Archived 2011-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ U Wojew�dzkiego: polska flaga w psiej kupie. Jest protest! (On the Wojew�dzki
show, the Polish flag lands in dog poop. Outrage ensues!) (pl)
^ Eska Rock ukarana za zarty z "Murzyna", TVN24, the phrase used was "krajowy
rejestr Murzyn�w"
^ Wojciech Karpieszuk, Kuba Wojew�dzki straci prace? Za chamstwo i rasizm Gazeta.pl
2011
^ Wojew�dzki "jednoznacznie rasistowski". Bedzie kara, Gazeta.pl
^ "Zn�m�ho polsk�ho kritika c�rkve polili kyselinou" (in Czech). novinky.cz. 23
October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
^ UJAWNIAMY: Kuba Wojew�dzki oblany zupelnie niegrozna substancja
^ Piotr Halicki, Sa wyniki badan cieczy, kt�ra oblano Wojew�dzkiego 25 paz 2013
External links[edit]
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ISNI: 0000 0004 0823 707XVIAF: 300475746WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 300475746
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