Klemen Slakonja

Klemen Slakonja (born 3 June 1985) is a Slovenian comedian, actor, television anchor, impersonator and musician. He is known in Slovenia for his comedy sketches often made in the form of music videos as well as for anchoring various TV shows such as the Eurovision song contest in his home country. His comedy sketch »Putin, Putout« gained international popularity. The video parodies Russian president Vladimir Putin. Shortly after airing on Slovene television, the comedy sketch was uploaded to Slakonja's personal YouTube channel where it went viral.
== Career ==
=== 2007: Breaking performance at Radio Ga Ga show ===
He was born in a Slovenian border town Brežice. He started his career at local Radio Energy near his home in the town of Krško, which is the most known for having the only nuclear powerplant in Slovenia. He was the radio anchor and he was hosting many different kind of local events. In late summer of 2007 he hosted the home reception for Slovenian world class hammer throw champion Primož Kozmus in Brežice, to celebrate his silver medal from 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka. To honour Primož Kozmus he translated famous Slovenian christmas song »Bela snežinka« to »Sivo kladivo« (Grey Hammer) and impresionated it with voices of various Slovenian popular musicians. That's when radio host Edi Štraus noticed him and recommended him to Sašo Hribar, by far the best satirical tv and radio host in the country. 
Sašo Hribar invited Slakonja to his satirical radio show called »Radio Ga Ga« which is broadcasted weekly on first channel Slovenian National Radio.
== TheMockingbirdMan project ==
A project where he is impersonating and making fun of celebrities.
No.	Title 	Impersonating 	Director 	Premiere 	Release date 	Video
1 	»Putin, Putout«	Vladimir Putin	Miha Knific	RTV Slovenia Studio 1 EMA 2016	27 February 2016	YouTube
2 	»Golden Dump« 	Donald Trump 	Miha Knific	Siti Teater BTC Ljubljana 	17 July 2016 	YouTube
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Category:IMF 35 Artists