Kabaret TEY

[1] Founded in the mid-1960s as Klops by Zenon Laskowik, Krzysztof Jaślar and Aleksander Gołębiowski, on 17 September 1971 it changed its name to Kabaret TEY.

[2][3] Popular performers included Bohdan Smoleń (joined in 1977),[3] Jadwiga Żywczak[3] Marian Pogasz,[3] Rudi Schuberth[3] Janusz Rewiński,[3] Grażyna Łobaszewska,[3] Zbigniew Górny,[3] Zbigniew Wodecki[3] and Małgorzata Ostrowska,[3] with music written by Włodzimierz Korcz (author of Żeby Polska była Polską, the informal anthem of Solidarity).

[1] As the communist system of the People's Republic of Poland began to wind down, so did Kabaret TEY, whose career was very much built on parodying the existing political system and communist reality.

[2][3] Its fame was such that in the mid-1980s, it became one of the main icons associated with Poznań, and some of the jokes and phrases coined in it have entered the Polish language and culture.

[3] The group texts became more political in the aftermath of the rise of Solidarity and introduction of the martial law in Poland in 1981.