Polònia is a comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 TV show broadcast in Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain

Spain

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, by the regional public broadcasting

Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...

 TV3

TV3 (Catalonia)

TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...

.

It has more than a million spectators and is one of the most watched TV shows in Catalonia . It is conducted by Toni Soler who conducted other successful Catalan shows like Malalts de tele or Set de nit. It won the 2007 Ondas

Premios Ondas

The Premios Ondas have been given since 1954 by Radio Barcelona, a subsidiary of Cadena SER, in recognition of professionals in the fields of radio and television broadcasting, the cinema, and the music industry.Past winners have included R.E.M., U2, The Corrs, Eric Clapton, the Red Hot Chili...

award.

The name of the program comes after the common derogatory slur in Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 polaco (literally "Pole" or "Polish") referring to Catalan people

Catalan people

The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...

 or to Catalan language

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

.

Content

Most of the program consists in sketches

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 with impersonation of celebrities, and they often interact with Toni Soler after recording those gags. Mainly it makes humor and satire

Satire

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 from Spanish and especially Catalan politics. However, a few other famous people that are not related with politics

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

 also appear. Singers like Lluís Llach

Lluís Llach

Lluís Llach i Grande is a Catalan composer and songwriter.Though partially dependent on arrangers, like Manel Camp or Carles Cases in his early works, Llach's songwriting has largely evolved from the more basic early compositions to a vastly more complex harmonic and melodic writing...

, chefs like Ferran Adrià

Ferran Adrià

Ferran Adrià i Acosta is a Catalan chef born on May 14, 1962 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He was the head chef of the El Bulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in the world.-Career:...

, Joan Laporta

Joan Laporta

Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Spanish politician and former president of Futbol Club Barcelona between 2003 and 2010.Laporta is a lawyer with his own firm, Laporta & Arbós, which has important firms as clients. Laporta was married to Constanza Echevarría and has three sons, Pol, Guillem and Jan...

 president of FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

 (though these were removed a while ago for the new show "Crackòvia"), the former dictator

Dictator

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 Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

 and even the pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...

 are regularly shown. It also makes fun of many other TV3 journalists like Josep Cuní, Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola i Martínez is a Catalan journalist, writer, and former politician and MP.Rahola studied Spanish and Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has published several books in Spanish and Catalan, and she is a columnist at La Vanguardia in Spain; La Nación in Argentina; ...

, Ramon Pellicer and the TV3 director Mònica Terribas.

Some impersonated characters

• Ángel Acebes
  Ángel Acebes
  Ángel Acebes Paniagua is a Spanish politician.Married, Acebes holds a degree in law from the University of Salamanca, although he has been a member of parliament for the rightwing People's Party since 1996 representing Avila.Acebes played a key role in securing the support of minority parties and...
  
  
• Ferran Adrià
  Ferran Adrià
  Ferran Adrià i Acosta is a Catalan chef born on May 14, 1962 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He was the head chef of the El Bulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in the world.-Career:...
  
  
• Magdalena Álvarez
  Magdalena Álvarez
  Magdalena Álvarez Arza Is Spanish Politician, who from 2004 to 2009 served as Minister of Public Works . She was born in San Fernando, in the Province of Cádiz, on 15 February 1952. She is an MP for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party for Málaga Province...
  
  
• José María Aznar
  José María Aznar
  José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...
  
  
• Esperanza Aguirre
  Esperanza Aguirre
  Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Murillo, Grandee of Spain, DBE is a Spanish politician and the current President of Madrid...
  
  
• Rita Barberà
• Pope Benedict XVI
  Pope Benedict XVI
  Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
  
  
• Albert Boadella
  Albert Boadella
  Albert Boadella Oncins is a Spanish actor and director, one of the founders of the well-known theatre company Els Joglars.- References :...
  
  
• José Bono Martínez
  José Bono Martínez
  José Bono Martínez is a Spanish politician, born in Salobre, Albacete. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , he is the President of the Congress of Deputies. Before that, he was the Minister of Defence of Spain from April 18, 2004, in the Government chaired by José Luis Rodríguez...
  
  
• Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira
• Miquel Calçada i Olivella
• Francisco Camps
  Francisco Camps
  Francisco Enrique Camps Ortiz is a Spanish politician belonging to the Partido Popular who served as President of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian regional administration, in the period 2003-2011.-Biography:...
  
  
• Antoni Castells
• Lluís Companys
• Celestino Corbacho
  Celestino Corbacho
  Celestino Corbacho Chaves is a Spanish politician, who is currently serving as Member of Catalan Parliament....
  
  
• Carme Chacón
  Carme Chacón
  Carme Chacón Piqueras is a Spanish politician who is currently serving as Minister of Defence in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is married and gave birth to her first child, a son named Miquel on 19 May 2008....
  
  
• Joan Clos
• Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida
  Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida
  Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida is a Spanish politician. A qualified lawyer, Duran began his political career when he was elected MP in the General Elections of Spain in 1979, representing Lleida becoming tinent d'alcalde in the municipality of Lleida.Currently Duran is an MP for Barcelona district,...
  
  
• María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
  María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
  María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz, LLD is a Spanish Valencian Socialist politician. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidency and Cabinet Spokesperson in the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
  
  
• Francisco Franco
  Francisco Franco
  Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
  
  
• God
  God
  God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
  
   himself, impersonated with Argentinian accent
• Baltasar Garzón
  Baltasar Garzón
  Baltasar Garzón Real is a Spanish jurist who served on Spain's central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional. He was the examining magistrate of the Juzgado Central de Instrucción No...
  
  
• Marina Geli i Fàbrega
  Marina Geli i Fàbrega
  Marina Geli i Fàbrega was the health minister of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 2003 to 2010. She is considered as one of the most prominent members of the Catalanist wing of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia....
  
  
• Pere Gimferrer
• Jordi Hereu
• Joan Herrera
• Juan José Ibarretxe
  Juan José Ibarretxe
  Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu is a Basque politician of Spain. A leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party , he was President of Spain's Basque Country autonomous community from January 2, 1999 to May 7, 2009....
  
  
• Joan Laporta
  Joan Laporta
  Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Spanish politician and former president of Futbol Club Barcelona between 2003 and 2010.Laporta is a lawyer with his own firm, Laporta & Arbós, which has important firms as clients. Laporta was married to Constanza Echevarría and has three sons, Pol, Guillem and Jan...
  
  
• Lluís Llach
  Lluís Llach
  Lluís Llach i Grande is a Catalan composer and songwriter.Though partially dependent on arrangers, like Manel Camp or Carles Cases in his early works, Llach's songwriting has largely evolved from the more basic early compositions to a vastly more complex harmonic and melodic writing...
  
  
• Federico Jiménez Losantos
  Federico Jiménez Losantos
  Federico Jiménez Losantos is a popular and controversial Spanish pundit, being most known for his radio talk show, but also a TV host and literary author.He was born in Orihuela del Tremedal, Teruel, on September 15, 1951.-Education:...
  
  
• Pasqual Maragall
• Fèlix Millet
• Ferran Monegal
• Artur Mas i Gavarró
  Artur Mas i Gavarró
  Artur Mas i Gavarró is a Spanish politician. He is the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, having assumed office on December 27, 2010 after winning the November 2010 election...
  
  
• Imma Mayol i Beltran
• Francesc Macià
• Angela Merkel
  Angela Merkel
  Angela Dorothea Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005.From 2005 to 2009 she led a...
  
  
• Tomàs Molina i Bosch
• José Montilla
  José Montilla
  José Montilla Aguilera was the 128th President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He became the First Secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia on 18 June 2000, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee and the Federal Committee of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party on 23 July 2000...
  
  
• Quim Monzó
  Quim Monzó
  thumb|Quim MonzóQuim Monzó , is a contemporary Catalan writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXprés...
  
  
• Joaquim Nadal i Farreras
  Joaquim Nadal i Farreras
  Joaquim Nadal i Farreras , Catalan politician, is professor of Contemporary History at the University of Girona. He is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia since December 23, 2010 and also has held the office from 1995 to 1999...
  
  
• Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  
• Michelle Obama
  Michelle Obama
  Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
  
  
• Arnaldo Otegi
  Arnaldo Otegi
  Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón is a Basque politician and spokesman for the outlawed Abertzale Basque separatist party Batasuna....
  
  
• Josep Piqué i Camps
  Josep Piqué i Camps
  Josep Piqué is a Spanish Catalan politician of the right-wing Spanish People's Party who represented Barcelona. Pique was initially a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia but left the grouping and subsequently joined the Union of the Democratic Centre...
  
  
• Joan Puigcercós i Boixassa
  Joan Puigcercós i Boixassa
  Joan Puigcercós is a Catalan politician who had served as president of the Republican Left of Catalonia...
  
  
• Oriol Pujol i Ferrussola
• Jordi Pujol i Soley
  Jordi Pujol i Soley
  Jordi Pujol i Soley is a Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mariano Rajoy
  Mariano Rajoy
  Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish People's Party politician and is the Prime Minister-elect since 20 November 2011. He will be sworn into office in mid-December 2011....
  
  
• Pedro J. Ramírez
  Pedro J. Ramírez
  Pedro José Ramírez Codina , Spanish, more often known as Pedro J. Ramírez, is a Spanish journalist. When he was appointed to manage Diario 16 at the age of 28, he became Spain's youngest editor of a national newspaper. In 1989 he founded the newspaper El Mundo, managing it continuously since then,...
  
  
• Albert Rivera
  Albert Rivera
  Albert Rivera Díaz is a Spanish lawyer and politician of Catalan and Andalusian ancestry. He is currently the leader of the Citizens' Party., after having been a member of the conservative People's Party from 2002 to 2006. Albert Rivera quit PP just three months before running for elections with...
  
  
• José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...
  
  
• Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
  Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
  Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is a Spanish politician and a leading figure in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He served in the government of Spain as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011; in addition, he was First Deputy Prime Minister from...
  
  
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Xavier Sala-i-Martin is a professor of economics at Columbia University.Sala-i-Martin earned his degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1985 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990, both in economics...
  
  
• Alicia Sánchez-Camacho
  Alicia Sánchez-Camacho
  Alicia Sánchez-Camacho Pérez is a Spanish lawyer and politician. She has served as the President of the People's Party in Catalonia since 6 July 2008....
  
  
• Joan Saura i Laporta
  Joan Saura i Laporta
  Joan Saura i Laporta is a Green ICV politician in Spain. He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1950. He studied at the Escola d'Enginyeria Tècnica , where he specialized in Industrial Chemistry...
  
  
• Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
• Elena Salgado
  Elena Salgado
  Elena Salgado Méndez is a Spanish politician currently serving as the First Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance of Spain, in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
  
  
• Nicholas Sarkozy
• Daniel Sirera
  Daniel Sirera
  Daniel Sirera Bellés is a Spanish politician. He served as the chairman of the People's Party in Catalonia from 2007–2008. He is currently a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for the constituency of Barcelona and is the leader of the PPC's parliamentary group.Sirera, who was born in...
  
  
• Pedro Solbes
  Pedro Solbes
  Pedro Solbes Mira is a Spanish economist. While independent in the sense of not affiliated to any party, his various ministerial roles in Spain have always been within Socialist Workers' Party cabinets...
  
  
• Joan Tardà
• Mònica Terribas
• Xavier Trias
  Xavier Trias
  Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera is a Spanish Catalan politician, member of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia and Mayor of Barcelona since July 2, 2011...
  
  
• Eduardo Zaplana
  Eduardo Zaplana
  Eduardo Andrés Julio Zaplana Hernández-Soro is a Spanish politician who served as the Partido Popular spokesman in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2008.-Biography:...
  
  
• King Juan Carlos I of Spain
• Queen Sofía of Spain
  Queen Sofía of Spain
  Queen Sofía of Spain is the wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.-Early life and family:Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika , a former princess of Hanover...
  
  
• Prince Felipe of Spain
  Felipe, Prince of Asturias
  Felipe, Prince of Asturias de Borbón y de Grecia; born 30 January 1968), is the third child and only son of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain....
  
  
• Princess Letizia of Spain
  Letizia, Princess of Asturias
  Letizia, Princess of Asturias , is the wife of Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the heir apparent to the Spanish throne...