Cronica Cârcotaşilor (ˈkronika kɨrkoˈtaʃilor,"The Naggers' Show" or "The Naggers' Chronicles") is a weekly satire show on Prima TV

Prima TV

Prima TV is a Romanian commercial TV channel, famous mainly for the Cronica Cârcotaşilor show and various reality shows.-Start:Prima TV was launched as one of the first commercial television stations in Romania in December 1997...

 hosted by Şerban Huidu

Serban Huidu

Şerban Huidu is a Romanian radio and TV star. He hosts, together with Mihai Găinuşă, the morning show on Romanian radio station Kiss FM, and a weekly satire show on the Romanian channel Prima TV....

 and Mihai Găinuşă

Mihai Gainusa

Mihai Găinuşă is a Romanian radio and TV star, hosting together with Şerban Huidu the morning show on Kiss FM radio and a weekly satire show on the Romanian station Prima TV....

.

Loosely based on the Italian entertainment program Striscia la notizia

Striscia la notizia

Striscia la notizia is an Italian television program on the Mediaset-controlled Canale 5. Its name in Italian translates as "the news slithers", a probable parody of the slighting italian journalist, submitted to politicians and overwhelmed with shame...

, Cronica Cârcotaşilor ridicules various celebrities from the current Romania

Romania

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n political, media and showbiz scene by exposing their stupidity, hypocrisy or poor grammar skills, as seen on TV.

The main features of the show are:

• the latest blooper
  Blooper
  A blooper, also known as an outtake or boner is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or news report, usually in terms of misspoken words...
  
  s of the news presenters, politicians or other celebrities
• the last week's top 3 TV blooper
  Blooper
  A blooper, also known as an outtake or boner is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or news report, usually in terms of misspoken words...
  
  s or ridiculous sequences from different TV shows (Top Ruşinică, approximate English
  English language
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   translation: "Shamy-Shame Top 3" or "Hall of Shamy-Shame")
• an ironic peek behind the curtains of the fashion and showbiz scene, featuring the snobbish and labile character Cătălin Dezbrăcatu' (Cătălin the Naked, played by the actor Codruţ Chegeş), an obvious satire on the Romania
  Romania
  Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
  
  n fashion designer Cătălin Botezatu.
• intermissions by attractive professional dancers nicknamed bebeluşe (Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
   for "little baby girls"); in contrast to the Striscia la notizias veline, Cronica Cârcotaşilor features (since 2008) four dancers: Delia Florea, Oana Ionita, Ioana Petric and Cristina Zegan.

Cronica Cârcotaşilor won the Romanian Association of Television Professionals Award for Parody

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

 in 2002 and for Entertainment

Entertainment

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in 2003.

External links

Cronica Cârcotaşilor website