More David Moser awesomeness
At a private party in Beijing, I once saw a popular Chinese TV actor (whose name I won’t mention) hike up his pants, don a large pair of glasses, and perform a dead-on imitation of Jiang Zemin, giving brutally catty appraisals of various world leaders, cursing like a Beijing taxi driver, and even expressing inappropriate carnal feelings for Kate Winslet in “The Titanic”, boasting that he had a “Titanic” of his own, and he would love to “sink it” with her any time. (You will remember that Jiang had praised the political class consciousness of the movie when it first came out.) This was bawdy, funny stuff, and it made me wonder what Chinese TV might be like if the government censors did not exert such a stranglehold. How many potential Chinese Lenny Bruces, Dick Gregorys or Richard Pryors are out there in China with no forum for expression and no hope of an audience? In this most political of all countries, when will political satire come into being?
