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correspondent, once upon a time in cerebral. ah ah ah, ah, ah, ah ah, he just fairly gang round in circles. bumble. any meat in belgrade? family meetings sat eva, one bologna, meet in louisiana. yes, go round around in circles and you come to the same place.

once upon a time in sadie, i thought i was a group of young men. they were crazy. they were creative. they were even visionary . they were taught lester naturalists, the surrealist hit parade. ah, it was the early 19 eighties and communist yugoslavia and a group of high school friends in the multi ethnic city of sarajevo, formed a rock band called zap iranian pushin. yay no smoking. they started doing a weekly comedy's fault on the radio, which later became a television program. it was a massive hit. the characters they portrayed real people often placed in serial situations. and they used the language of the saudi, those streets. they called the ot movement, new primitivism and audience is across the country. recognized the humor as

distinctly bosnian whose topless to revolt over the years. but at the call was in its nelly and jerome. well, the road just been wor, changed everything. in the early ninety's yugoslavia disintegrated and bosnia was shattered. around 200000 people were killed, many of them civilians, and more than 2000000 fed their homes. the siege of sarajevo by sub force is lost it more than 3 and a half years. the longest blockade of a capital city in modern history, people with terrorized by sniper fire from the surrounding hills. the wall also split up the group nearly left her serbia douro fled to slovenia, while zenick remained in sarajevo, trying to keep top lester alive. their different opinions about the war and

critical statements, nelly made about sarajevo, created divisions between them. ah, i've come to sarajevo to try to bring senator nellie and jiro together again. they said they're willing to meet it exactly. where is the big question? i was them as a child. actually during and just thoughts of the war. people still love them. 20 years after topless to broke up their work is still hugely popular. i. missy, set up with one of our studies extremely. sasha was new years, wasn't fashionable sounds. gustavo savannah muscles got out of news with didn't, don't really the rich dentist touch,

not yet, did he go? dement article said you saw in as at knox hotel, it's discovered that i think that it publicly russ flavio padilla not is that snow is up a new escalade, one sketch that people in bosnia still talk about is this one where the group imagines the kind of berlin wall, dividing, sorry over. it's about a chance meeting between 2 garbage men who are throwing their rubbish over the wall at each other. oh yeah, they decide to go for a drink, but the fight breaks out because they can't agree on which bar to go to la. it'll be the bible. and i know you're busy with when the sketch was broadcast in 1989, many viewers thought this was something that could never happen in their wildest dreams. but in fact, it predicted the deadly serious future. eerily enough, the dates they picked, their futuristic news broadcast,

turned out to be remarkably close to when the dayton agreement actually was signed . ending the war and dividing the country i 1st arrived in bosnia just over a year later to train local journalists at a school run by the b, b. c. zen. it applied to join my class. this well known comedian was not an obvious candidate for a course in television journalism, but i let him in any way. and he tried his hand at some serious news reports to mr . george my friend for a concert, run the media center in san diego, was that it and i 1st met some people told me that he was so you know the time jackie and our jackie and jackie, i was in montana in 2004 and we spoke on the phone and you told me you said jackie,

you must come to both me and then it is getting married tomorrow. actually this is a really event that says event i should have got from the con job, but it's a very long way from pub. got it too. but now you're going to see, we're going to see him today. we're going to see him today and catch up and see what's going on. borrow discovered topless back in the 1980s. he gave them their 1st break on the radio and became their mental last co bullet scott their ma. c nodes to throw. it says how to do it. i it ease of the sale over to the bed. 3rd through the cam it i never but you most to all the lea, bogo. and you might, if you have the in the family, the 1st program doing a very funny story. about the group of young people who illegally came to the radio station and force of the people inclusive to change the

music program i saw in front of me. i mean, really magic. there is this belief among many people that the top is to naturally predicted what happened to saturday. do you think that that's the case? they saw that way? ration is better than other people that lived in our society. but people didn't recognize that even. but you have so many people who found local to days for that was they said it was never happened. people who remember the service and love it. no, yes, that love the idea of them getting together again. but would it work? would it work these days? if you're going to me that type of programs, you need to people who maybe not to love each other but alike. and they like to be together in a time than we are talking about to them. they were very, very close. they were in the same boat, you know, do those problems now and in editable denise, sir, the own space,

the own cabin never to meet each other in a seen the same. but why do you think net a is particularly against coming back to sorry, whoever. what you think his, his are either no, it may be his room. so many states went against several and peopling saturday during the war. and maybe he broke all the bridges behind him. ah, i've never met nearly or jiro. i'd only seen them in old via chest recordings of the shows at zenick played for me despite the language gap topless to captured my imagination. and i think my best hope for bringing the 3 back together is senate. i haven't seen senate now for 13 and a half years. a lot has changed since then. he's got married, he's got kid sees her father. now your responsibility is of interest to see how

he's changed during my time in sarajevo. senate and i became close. it was always about comedy with him. when we can't, we went to the croatian coast and i took a swim in the safe. looking up, i saw zenick filming made, inspired by a scene from a cult yugoslav movie the marathon family, in which a naked man, films, a young woman. swim, swim pretty swimmer. he called out quoting a line from the film. i didn't get the reference at the time, but later i thought it was quite funny. one that was a slightly apprehensive listen to me. it's a long time ago. i decade. oh oh. oh i'm, i'm very good. i feel better than greensborough in order that i feel good then on

this on your hair is shorter, but that is all. but my mind a big longer. oh, oh, you look fantastic for you. thanks with in recent years senate has tried his hands again at the top lester, making new comedy sketches with some of the old crew. i am of this little money in this, so he also makes public service announcements on tv commercials with coca cola. no ma'am. ah, we had to a little bar where topless to would meet to plan their radio sketches. it's dr. producing the script here. are we prepare everything for the fuel, glass of beer?

thank you. we met. do you remember the 1st time we met? oh golf course, derwolsky elisia through interview interview pat, it's interview panell and you are one of the a member of into pedal and asked me very tough questions. like her, who is the vice president of america asked you know that no, no, no, with the zen it topless to not realistic was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background actually whole group or is a completely different. so there is a serve so called muslim and jewish even some had a question to her, i think isn't it? and lili's creative relationship symbolized that diversity. zen it, a bosnian muslim, a nelly, a bossy, and then was

a joy. i think the blazing co for world is actually the relationship between me and layla and her there. there was a great love between us. i really like that guy. he's. he's very funny and he's a quite intelligent and it's absolutely unique person. and then you met out, what can i think for the 1st time after what was it had 97 when you went to belgrade to do the same story? was that when you saw him for the 1st time? yes. but can you tell us about how that meeting went and how you felt when you saw him again? i used to have connections and discussions with him very often and, and we all this on the same side. but when i met him, i realize that actually he has a from completely opposite the opinion of me. it is a great disappointed because i lost my best friend. and

actually i, i, i cannot to recognize what he like the, what he thinking it is very hard for me. what were the ideas that he said that you couldn't tech, but you couldn't accept the main reason why the war start. i'm not belonging to any perspectives which i think that is my duty as a comedian, as an artist for to be independent. she's no, or poli or no. so besides actually to be open um which is unacceptable now, i mean i can accept that because it is not our way of working during the siege of sarajevo comedy helped senate and his friends stay sane. despite the shelling and the snipe, the flyer, they continued to record sketches. one of them was about the drive in sarajevo for

blood donations. this black humor with mark all their work during the war. one man is walking down the streets and taking a canisters of the water. and in one moment he looked summer on the floor g. a bit that she is with that he tried to figure she is but she's moving you know, hes going further for the she said one moment he jumps this guy just like, you know, they're taking him to hospital and taking his blood. you know? because we need every drop of the blood and where he is going out, he say doctor, we aren't you that up in the morning were not given a. can you let me go back and you know, war is not romantic. as you can see, or to some film with something for that, it is a terrible that's the probably the lowest, the level of where the human being can be. there is no proud there is no dignity one sketchy even made a joke about breathing sniper fire to collect water. turning it into

a sports event. i ordered a exists because there is the need for her, for some relaxation of tenable situation. a human to help us to, to survive. could you imagine any circumstances in which topless did not really, could we unite and could come together again and work again together? i'm definitely for, for the, even if occasion. and there is no obstacle on my side. which, which questions bring to the nail? actually he want to start to work on again, but he want to, to me that in belgrade, but i cannot fill in belgrade and not fill me in a so this is absolutely out of mind. so if he wants to come to and from something,

i will be happy to go and build it until it's kim something's ah, i've heard a lot about over the years, mostly from my saturday, from friends. now it's time to meet him to myself and hear his side of the story. so i'm heading to serbia. nelly hasn't returned to saudi a since he left in 1992. i need to find a place where he may be willing to meet the others. it's been meant to see a here in belgrade who could have predicted 12 months ago. the kinds of events that we would see here outside the you could solve federal parliament building out the people rising up. i lived in belgrade for just over 2 years. at the end of the ninety's working as a reporter for the baby said, it was a time of great change. there was the bombing of yugoslavia by nato and the ousting

of snowballs, milosevic. it was also the start of my career as a television reporter, jackie roland, baby thing. you felt great. ah, the some of my closest friends are still here and i'm interested to hear what they thought at the time about top lester. and that predictions for the future of yugoslavia and it was basically too bad to be true. what they were predicting most of the people saw it that way. you know, it never happens to us. it can happen to someone else could be brought up to boss initial setup. but only connie of our, the should a portion of the people here lived in some kind of a lullaby. oh to, oh, no, no. he's in the middle of a big to promoting. he's new memoir, placing time in san diego, i catch up with him in the serbian city of novi. sad. his book is doing well during large crowds. i sign up

with jackie out to ship a visit with miss will build some up with jessica ebony. i dialed a rim it up and i can remember that, oh my god. and what i've been talking with

them has a reputation of being authentic, artistic movements in former yugoslavia. oh, it was extremely bad. i guess it was over a month with i just wanted to listen to that kind of music and watch everything as this man was saying, what about the comedy? why they say funny. and every job there has to be one thing that is completely blown out. no proportions in this country where i go off views from everything is very much low. now don't proportions. can you make it, jack? yes, to jackie, gets up conventional with i was, i have a chat with you later when the book signing it says that net a head to a bar where a local band is performing. we've heard he may take the stage later. ah,

men a built a successful career as a rock musician? after leaving san diego, he teamed up with the famous film director. any a cluster, it's up and they travelled internationally with their band. the no smoking orchestra. oh ha. ah ah ah.

you go no style just seems alive and well in not the sad ah, zen it to dr. you to roll. oh hello. how are you? the trip is good. we so nearly last night it was quite nice because at one point he said that the, the key magic was with zam, it cuts on him, we hadn't had more discussion with him because he was very busy signing books. but we're going to see him again today. we're thinking we might try to persuade him to

come somewhere close to saturday. i would like yahoo, you know, somewhere like that. i mean, i've come to a petrol station to meet nellie. i'm traveling with him to the next stop on his book tul zaya chart. a remote town in easton, serbia. i'm hoping to talk to him about meeting with senate and jurell. becky, petro, enjoying some of the increasing petrol station? yes. i came to the bedroom facing really? yes, i spent to a 3rd of my life for the base board railway station that the cook. i have the to go back home, but the coaches go to do diets that come in my feet, florida. thank you. french. god,

thanks then to me we were the exit of police done that alleys. of course, there were another guy, even more talented. we like pot on left in the $986.00 up the cottage. and the judah was the most done in the last in the funniest person. but both of them took place done at least as a part of off their life. but for me and for then it top brewster was our life, you know, and really sacrifice our lives to their pleasure. coveted beyond well taken without hesitation. fought and died for political power. defines our world laws,

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