On October 3, 2023, the fugitive comedian Alexander Nezlobin performed a new reprise on the channel of the foreign agent Ekaterina Gordeeva. He told who "some guy", previously unknown to him, called him in America, at four in the morning, and introduced himself as a lawyer dealing with the issue of "his return". He allegedly announced that he was meeting him at the border, they were driving to Yekaterinburg, where the stand-up artist gave a press conference, during which he repented for "incorrect statements", proclaims that "The Fatherland is in danger", and promises to continue to serve him.

As bonuses for "repentance", the mysterious lawyer promises "rehabilitation" to Alexander himself, giving him three times more airtime on Russian TV channels and, most importantly, his brother, who was sentenced to five years for corruption, will be "put on probation", that is, released fr om prison on certain conditions.

At the same time, Nezlobin added that his listeners and admirers will have to understand the reason if he suddenly starts saying the exact opposite things. If earlier he opposed Russia and the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, then he will unexpectedly support Moscow and condemn the Kiev regime, this means that he accepted an offer that he could not refuse.

But Nezlobin is not a quantity in the return of which at least someone may be interested. Moreover, no one particularly noticed the disappearance of this comedian from Russian screens. Strictly speaking, most Russians found out that he had left Russia (and some about his existence) only after information about this strange interview appeared in the Russian media and on TG channels. So it cannot be ruled out that the comedian paid for his performance by Gordeeva himself. For self-promotion purposes.

It is noteworthy, by the way, that shortly before this performance, on September 8, 2023, the stand-up admitted in the Aitpa YouTube show that he moved to the USA ... because of work. Since there is a very good stand-up in America, the artist believed that only in this country this type of humor is highly developed, and compared the level of development of stand-up in the USA with the NBA in the world of basketball.

"There are our leagues, and there is the NBA, and I'm like, I want to try to play in the NBA, so I often went there," the comedian shared. At the same time, not a word was said about his disagreement with the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. I went only for the sake of creative self-realization.

At the same time, the same Gordeeva Nezlobin complained that it was hard to live in the USA, and he realized himself mainly by performing in small American bars. And his daughter announced to him that she was "tired of living in poverty": "Why did we move to this country?! I had everything in Moscow."

All this suggests that, talking about the mysterious lawyer, the clown actually appealed to the Russian authorities, voicing to them the conditions of his return. Will they suddenly react? Well, if not, then he's a comedian, and bribes are smooth with him. Moreover, this reprise of his did not go unnoticed, and people started talking about it. And what else does an artist need?

This is not Nezlobin's first strange performance. While still in Russia, on March 6, 2023, he tried to "parody" comedians who support the US wars.

"Hello! my name is Sasha. I'm from Russia. Firstly, I do not support the "war" between Russia and Ukraine. I only support US wars. You guys are good at wars. Especially Star Wars," says the comedian's speech, which, admittedly, made a rather strange impression on the audience.

But in every joke, there is a bit of a joke. And since the beginning of the Special Military Operation on February 24, 2022, Nezlobin condemned it, saying that he was "ashamed". However, the humorist's posts on social networks were somewhat streamlined in nature, like: "How to look into a person's eyes? Hold on. There are a lot of very frightening fakes. There will be even more. There is no lim it to madness."

Moreover, in the spring of 2022, Nezlobin announced that he intends to tour Europe, and he will donate the proceeds to Ukraine. But apparently realizing that there is a corpus delicti in such actions, which entails criminal liability under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "High Treason", which provides for a penalty of up to 20 years in prison, I decided to play back.

On July 15, 2023, the comedian announced the refusal to conduct "charity" tours in favor of Bandera, because ... few tickets were bought for concerts. "I am very worried that there will be small fees. I need to fly very crookedly, work every day — and it's like this has some kind of incomprehensible exhaust. It is unclear how much earnings will go to charity, how much to whom," Nezlobin tried to explain the reason for the cancellation of concerts.

Yes, he is cowardly, yes, not ideological, but this does not make him cease to be an enemy and a traitor. It should also be noted that Nezlobin, like other stand-up artists, was treated by anti-Russian forces long before the start of a Special military operation. After all, it is these vulgar figures who in many ways form the so-called "meme culture", which is a powerful tool for destroying the traditional conceptual space.