Soup 156, April 18, 2023
Steven Seagal
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a Russo-Serbian-American actor, martial artist and carrot-enjoyer, Steven Seagal. He’s best-known for allegedly pooping his pants, for his praise of dictators around the world, for being a dick, and for his sexual harassment lawsuits.


Seagal’s roots go back to Russia, and his paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish (actual Russian Jewish, not the Donbass Devushka kind) immigrants. In an interview by Dmitry Borisov, …
…the relatively successful Exit Wounds (2001), most of his movies have been released as direct-to-video.
His success during the early 90s also landed him a spot as a host on Saturday Night Live. The series’ Lorne Michaels, David Spade and Tim Meadows described Seagal…
His success during the early 90s also landed him a spot as a host on Saturday Night Live. The series’ Lorne Michaels, David Spade and Tim Meadows described Seagal…
…depicted Ukraine as a “country controlled by fascists”. In 2016, Putin handed out a Russian passport to Seagal at an orchestrated event, but he had gotten his Russian citizenship already in November 2014, few months after appearing at the absurd event in Crimea.
When visiting Belarussian dictator Lukashenko, Steven was given one carrot and one watermelon as a gift. After receiving the watermelon, he commented “Nice. Nice.”