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Safciu, one of the three most well known satirists in post-war Kosovo collectively known as 'Stupcat,' is in fact telling the story of the last moments of the.!
Mensur Safciu: Kosovo’s satirical sheriff
Prishtina Insight meets one part of comedy trio Stupcat, who have spent the last 17 years poking fun at Kosovo’s socio political nuances.
“Why you are so tense, Mensur?” the waiter asks.
A self-proclaimed Russian consul in Prizren dreams that Russia will dominate these parts, and as a result Kosovo will become Serbia.
In a second, Mensur Safciu moves from the retelling of a tragic story to teasing the Serbian waiter. “I am telling the guys about how you beat us during the ‘90s,” he retorts in fluent Serbian. The whole table breaks out into fits of laughter, including the man in his fifties serving raki in a restaurant just a few kilometers from the town of Shterpce – a town in southern Kosovo inhabited predominantly by Serbs.
Safciu, one of the three most well known satirists in post-war Kosovo collectively known as ‘Stupcat,’ is in fact telling the story of the last moments of the life of his former friend and colleague, actress Adriana Abdullahu, who was killed by Serbian forces in Prishtina on March 22, 1999.
Exactly two decades later, with tears in his eyes