Cem Yilmaz: Diamond Elite Platinum Plus

Lately, Turkey has been going through very hard periods of time regarding economics, politics and social peace and acceptance at the top of the worldwide pandemic. Most professionals would refuse to perform under these circumstances because Turkish society has been experiencing such a breakdown over politics at every aspect of life and suffering polarization and hate. It is definitely not easy to make such people laugh under these conditions for sure. I am lucky that I live in the US so I did not miss the greatness of this show. Some Turkish people think he lost his connection with the Turkish people because he has started talking about the wealthy and rich. I am not sure what kind of nationality wealthy and rich people in Turkey are and why they are not considered as 'people' but it was so funny to hear about their life and challenges. My favorite part was where he brought awareness to the homophobia in Turkey. Cem Yilmaz is not only a stand up he is also a very talented drama artist. He can make any voice and imitate any person in this world. He uses his body language, mimics, gestures, his voice and vocals, his incredible ability to mimic others, dance, sing, etc. In such a way only drama artists employ. Anyway... he made me laugh a lot and that's what matters to me the most. No one in Turkey is as happy as 20 years ago including his unrelenting political opposers since he is known for his undeniable respect for Ataturk. Cem reflects this widespread cloud of discontent and unhappiness over the country in his performance without any hesitation. He is an artist not a politician so he shares his protests through his art.

Too many contradictions he told in this 1.5 hours. Is it okay to stand up comedian can say contradict things because it's joke? No. Even lets say it's fiction charecter. Even this charecter should keep a line. Contradictions: "I can't take vacations. It was 1985 last time I went vacation." After this statement he tells jokes happened while he was vacationing on 3 millions euro cost yacht. And he claims he is very an average income guy. Jerry Seinfeld, Lewis C. K they talk about money too in their shows but never claims they average Joe. They say they are rich. If someone telling you lies for sake of jokes it's insulting.

His take on the people who wish to help others if they win lottery " if you are a good person what are you doing at lottery ticket line". I didn't know that buying lottery ticket makes you bad.

A lot of complaining / jokes about his fans who try to talk to him or take a selfie with him. Jokes are funny if you can get common ground and so you can say "yea it happened to me or I witness same situation. So no one has these problems. Obviously he lost touch with common people.

This show has been nominated by many as the 'worst' stand-up performance by Cem Yilmaz. However, I kindly disagree with this notion as I believe this chapter is the most matured, iconic and timeless version of his unique style and be watched even in the upcoming decades; even though he had indicated that he has no desires to be remembered for centuries.

I have been following all of Yilmaz's works over the years, as most of the Turkish generation X and Y did. I think this was his peak performance in terms of critics of the Turkish elite, mid-class and even the politics. Therefore, it is to be expected that this will not be appreciated by many in present and does not appeal to the masses; yet I wholeheartedly believe that this is the peak of Turkish comedical action and will remain there for many more years.

I think the audience is divided into two: 1- Those who compare it with previous similar works and ignore creativity and effort (which audiences can't enjoy almost any production they watch). 2- Those who just go with the flow and experience the journey of the story told, (if you are in this category it means that you laughed well 3-5 times, which may have exceeded 10 or even 20 for me). So, anything less than 8 points would be unfair, +1 also my own opinion because we laugh at very few things sincerely these days. It's EXTRA VALUABLE in this respect.

I want to leave a final word to first category: "Some people feel the rain, others just get wet." Ha bu da böyle biline.

As always..there is no such thing as always laughing..It is not an easy thing to take people back to the past and make them laugh..we need guys like this..we need to protect and support him..It doesn't suit us to spend on the smallest thing..don't miss..