Bulă

Bulă (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbulə]) is a fictional stock character of Romanian humor.

Bulă, a buffoon and coward, was "born" during the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime of Communist Romania. The name, among other interpretations, is a one-letter deformation of "pulă", a Romanian vulgar slang for "penis". Bulă is young, he is funny, he has an attitude, and he has an answer for everything. He can be a hero with modesty and, equally, he can fail with dignity; no one can firmly say whether he is stupid or just a trickster. Bulă is the descendant of Păcală and Tândală, friend of Ițic and Ștrul, less educated, but with an equally sharp tongue.

In 2006, TVR conducted a vote to determine whom the general public considers the 100 greatest Romanians of all time. Bulă was voted to be the 59th greatest Romanian.

Silvian Centiu, commenting on his show, A Transylvanian in Silicon Valley, wrote: "When in San Francisco and in New York I mentioned Bula, the omnipresent character in Romanian jokes, I was delighted to hear audience members laugh before I finished the joke – I knew they were Romanians."

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