Grzegorz Halama

Grzegorz Halama was born in Świdwin in 1970. Grzegorz Halama started on the cabaret stage in 1989 with Kabaret Bez Oparcia and in 1991 and 1992 performed with Grupa Rafała Kmity. Three years later he founded his own troupe, Grzegorz Halama Oklasky, where he worked with Jarosław Jaros. From 1996 he was part of the Zielonogórskie Zagłębie Kabaretowe and made short films of his own for the A'Yoy studio, also acting in its features Robin Hood: czwarta strzała (“Robin Hood: The Fourth Arrow”) and Nakręceni (“Filmed”). Between 1999 and 2003 he and Dariusz Kamys ran the cabaret Hi-Fi.

Wide recognition came through a hip-hop parody. As a singing bacterium he performed the song Śpiworki (“Sleeping Bags”), which in August 2000 topped Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego (“Programme Three Chart”). For the programme Żule i bandziory (“Drunks and Bandits”) he invented a chatty poultry farmer from Chociule, modelled on a teacher at his old technical school in Koszalin, and from 2002 to 2011 he presented Wywiady z Panem Józkiem (“Interviews with Mr Józek”) every Monday in Urywki z rozrywki (“Entertainment Excerpts”) on Polskie Radio Program III.

Television used him in other ways too. In 2007 and 2008 he played a professor on the TVN show Clever: widzisz i wiesz (“Clever: You See and You Know”), and in spring 2010 he took part in Polsat's Just the Two of Us. Tylko nas dwoje (“Just the Two of Us”), singing with Małgorzata Ostrowska. His film work includes Och, Karol 2 (“Oh, Karol 2”) and Polskie gówno (“Polish Shit”), and in 2015 he began performing a stand-up programme called Długo i szczęśliwie, czyli intymne życie grubasa (“Happily Ever After, or the Intimate Life of a Fat Man”).