Posted on 09/16/2015 1:28:46 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Russian pranksters say they fooled Elton John with Putin call
Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Krasnov, who are famous for phone impersonations, say singer told them call was ‘most wonderful’ he had received
To cynics, it had seemed rather too good to be true: a phone call from Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, to Sir Elton John, singer and LGBT campaigner, about gay rights.
Unfortunately for John, it was, in fact, not true: despite an effusive Instagram post in which he thanked the Russian leader for having reached out to him on the issue, it swiftly became clear that, whoever had called him on Monday night, it had not been Putin.
The Kremlin had already denied all knowledge of the chat. And on Wednesday two famous Russian pranksters stepped forward to claim that they, not the president, had been the foreign voices at the end of the telephone.
“We thought it wasn’t likely that Putin would want to meet with him and call, at least not so quickly,” said Vladimir “Vovan” Krasnov, who said he had impersonated Putin while his co-prankster, Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, had posed as the president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.
“But it turned out that Elton John was really waiting for this call, and so he immediately believed it really was a conversation with the people who we said we were,” he told told newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. “He said: ‘Thank you, you’ve made my day. This day and this conversation has been the most wonderful and lovely in my life.’”
As if to complete John’s embarrassment, the pair announced they would broadcast a recording of the conversation on Wednesday on a popular Russian late-night show. John’s representatives have not commented on speculation of a hoax.
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They should prank Barry.
lol
I would enjoy hearing a recording of the call as I bet that it is rather hilarious.
Vladimir Put-on.
> They should prank Barry.
As members of the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans Inc representing the Iranian American PAC wanting to make a multi-million diollar donation asking him for his offshore account number so they can send it via wire transfer. This wouldn’t raise any eyebrows in Barry’s administration because its so commonplace.
Elton the sucker.
“Elton the sucker”
....in more than one way.
When I read Putin reached out to him I was disappointed.
LOLing now!
So Sir Elton got taken by the Russian equivalent of a couple of shock jocks?
LOL
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"They should prank Barry.-Resolute Conservative
The Iranian deal already did
It’s not nice to fool an old queen. Or Elton John for that matter.
This is the funniest thing I have read all month! Haha! Those wacky, zany Russians. I really appreciate that they got a good laugh on Dame Elton.
“Don’t let your son go....”
Hilarious! Stick it to that wretched monster and his abominable acquiring of synthetic children.
Putin would never lower himself to talk with a sodomite pedophile.
How about sodomitic.
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