In the summer of 2016, comedian and TV presenter Garik Martirosyan, who is not on any social network, cheated on himself: he opened a working account on Instagram and launched the Insta Battle project on its platform. Every day, the showman asks subscribers one question, and then selects the funniest answer, for which the author is paid from a hundred to a thousand euros. The awards are issued by the MEM Media agency, with which Martirosyan works. The showman told Lente.ru why he needed it, why he disappeared from television, does not register on social networks and never watches the performances of venerable American comedians.
Lenta.ru: Why do you need this project?
Martirosyan: I really like to do something in an unknown field, where no one has done anything before me. "Insta battle" was invented by me, and I embody it myself. Unlike television projects that have specific goals, economics, and so on, we do not set such goals. We want to cheer ourselves up, Instagram users and all Russian-speaking people with a sense of humor, especially in such a sad time when autumn has come and winter is ahead.
That is, you do not have the task of discovering new stars?
If new stars emerge from this competition, I will be very happy. Probably, among those who write to us, you can find screenwriters who can give out good jokes. But I do not flatter myself with hopes of discovering new talents. It's just an entertainment platform for anyone who thinks they have a sense of humor.
Have you tagged any of the users?
Of course, there are guys who joke a lot and consistently well and witty. But here I behave strictly professionally: I don’t fall in love with anyone in a creative sense on purpose. I don't take note of anyone. This is a habit developed by years of sitting on the Comedy Battle jury. Here, after all, the main thing is wit, and not the person herself.
Who jokes funnier: Instagram users or newcomers who try out on TNT?
There are no special differences. Yes, of course, those who are professionally engaged in humor have more precise wording, their heads work faster, their brains are more efficient. But I assure you: completely ordinary people come and work at TNT. However, there is a problem. In Russia, unfortunately, there are no humorous universities and special courses where a person can hone his sense of humor.
There is, of course, a large KVN school. People can create their own teams, go to festivals - the scheme has been tested a long time ago. But this is the only way in Russia to develop a sense of humor. If you are lucky, if you have enough talent and creative strength, they will get into the major league of KVN, and then into the television arena. I can’t give people this perspective in the Insta Battle. We do not have an educational page, but just an entertaining one.
Social networks, as the name implies, are created primarily for a person to socialize. I met new people, made friends, expressed myself. Someone is interested in the information flows that run there, news, videos. But I have such a busy life, so many people surround me, that sometimes I don’t have time to communicate with the people who work with me. The Comedy Club office is a social network in itself. Well, imagine: five thousand people work in it. And if I also sit on social networks, I will go crazy. I need to stay awake, buy myself a second brain and a second pair of eyes.
Never in my life! I don't watch anything for the sake of coming up with brilliant ideas. I'm afraid of brilliant ideas. I'm afraid of American shows, I'm afraid of American stand-up artists, I'm afraid of those who work in the same genre as me, because their understanding then gives wrong shoots. Everything I have done in my life is dictated by my personal creative fantasies. I never take anything from anyone, I'm just not interested.
Do you follow what is written about you on the Internet?
I don't follow. If possible, write that it's enough to write something about me on the Internet, because I simply don't follow it.
But you reacted when a remedy for baldness was advertised on the network on your behalf.
This was the only story I followed. I had to react when already the twentieth person turned to me about some kind of baldness ointment. This is an absolute fake. We have long ago found those who advertised this remedy on my behalf, and the trial will soon take place. The company representing my interests on TNT will sue them.
A year has passed since this story.
It took time to find these people. If you think that this is some kind of open company that sits in an office on the Garden Ring, then no, it is not. The problem is that Internet users, like, in fact, all other viewers, are very gullible. Anything is written in my name. Seeing my photo cut out and pasted into some article, people don’t think that I couldn’t say that in principle.
So they trust. You can safely go into politics.
It would be possible, but I chose television creativity. Political topics interest me, but I don’t see myself as a politician at all.
There are many of you on TV. Do you watch TV?
In fact, I have not performed anywhere for two years. I'm not interested in anything right now. Let's say I'm on a creative break. I will start a new life next year. Our country began a new life a hundred years ago, and I will follow the example of my ancestors. From next year I will start creating revolutionary events, only, fortunately, in humor. I do not want to say in advance - a bad omen.
In the near future, if all goes well, you may even see Internet comedy programs created exclusively for YouTube, RuTube, Facebook and other Internet platforms. I believe that the Internet is a terrible force.
Any man suffers from the understanding that his hair is gradually thinning. For the famous show of Garik Martirosyan, earlier hair loss became a threat to stop the concert activity. Having tried a lot of medical, cosmetic products, nutritional supplements, diets, which, apart from allergies, did not cause anything else, Garik decided on a painful, expensive procedure - hair transplantation. As the showman said, before that, it was necessary to undergo several painful medical procedures that were supposed to guarantee a reliable result. Despite the fulfillment of all the conditions, the new curls did not take root, after three weeks they began to fall out. As the doctors of the German clinic explained, this is usually observed in patients with poor heredity, whose grandparents lost strands even in their youth. As it turned out, expensive medicine cannot help in such cases.
But six months later, Martirosyan managed to prove that the doctors were wrong. Garik's next performance at the Comedy Club surprised the audience with new rich curls, there was not a trace of bald patches. “What helped you overcome the disease, because transplantation, as we know, did not help you?” - this is the question we asked the famous showman after his next brilliant performance.
Here's what he told us. “Having tried all possible medical procedures that supposedly had to stop my baldness, I was ready to cut my hair to zero and delight my fans with a bare head. Thanks to a colleague - he answered. While in the USA, he bought the famous Ultra Hair System anti-hair loss spray, which helped me. I decided to see what they write about the tool on the Internet. It turned out that today he has already helped thousands of balding men, women around the world. Here is what Marina wrote: “I used a hair transplant, it didn’t help, new strands began to fall out after the third wash, I just wasted my money. My master advised the Ultra Hair System spray, I tried it. To tell the truth, I did not expect a special effect, but I was very surprised when, after two weeks of regular use, the bald patches were covered with fluff. A month of use gave amazing results, the bald patches completely healed, and the rest of the hair became strong, healthy, beautiful, and stopped falling out. Anton from Tomsk also praises the spray very much. The jokes of the wife made me look for salvation from early baldness, they say, you look like an “old stump”, that not a single girl will look at you with such hair. I used the spray for one week - in places where there was no hairline, small hairs began to appear. He is very pleased with the result. Now continues treatment. Many buyers praised the pleasant aroma of the spray, ease of use, high quality, and most importantly, its effectiveness.
“Having tried the spray on myself, I began to notice in the mirror that new hair actually grows! A month of application allowed me to completely forget about the old problem, to restore beauty, splendor, strength, health to my curls. And this is not surprising, because the composition of the spray, it turned out, includes natural ingredients that strengthen the hair follicle, contribute to the accelerated regeneration of strands.
“Today I no longer need to order the Ultra Hair System through a friend in America, because it is sold through official representatives in our country, helping hundreds of Russians every year. I recommend ordering the spray only from official suppliers, they guarantee its high quality, in the event that the anti-baldness remedy does not help, they will return your money within fourteen days. We believe that an interview with Garik will help many other Russians get rid of the problem of baldness!
Star status has not changed at all. What he was nineteen years ago when we met, so he remained. But I had to tame my character.
I am a serious person. Judge for yourself: she dreamed of becoming an investigator, a criminologist. Grandparents are surgeons, medical reference books and anatomical atlases were everywhere at home. I read manuals on trepanation of the skull like adventure novels. I won't faint at the sight of a corpse. In general, I entered the law school in Stavropol, studied textbooks on criminal law, step by step I went towards my goal. She also played in the student team of KVN.
My dad, Viktor Morisovich Levin, had his own business in Sochi - optics stores, so I grew up in a wealthy family. Mom is an economist, she worked in the city administration. Of course, they wanted their only daughter to marry well and live nearby. And I suddenly meet a guy from the New Armenians KVN team, from Yerevan! But what if it was love at first sight?! Something seemed to hit in the heart.
Walked with Garik on the beach, talking. And I suddenly had the feeling that this is absolutely “my” person: dear, sincere, warm. But common sense immediately turned on: I need to finish my studies, he will leave for Yerevan, we have no common future. Garik also laughed at my dream. “Woman is an investigator! he laughed. - Yes, they will beat you!
The next morning I left for Stavropol for a session and did not even leave a phone number. Mobile phones were a rarity in 1997, no one had heard of social networks at all, and Garik could not find me in any way. We met only a year later, at the next KVN festival. He was so happy when he saw me! Complained: “Jeanne, why are you lost? I thought about you for a year, I missed you! He was so excited, sweet... He seemed to be a very reliable person.
- Could this be determined by appearance?
Garik always keeps very naturally, he is not drawn at all. Maybe that's why I believed him right away. Thank God my intuition didn't fail me. In general, I fell in love. I just couldn't breathe without it. Gar met my parents, then flew to meet his family.
Now, of course, I have a very good idea of the situation our parents found themselves in. If my daughter Jasmine would say to me: “I fell in love with a guy - I’m leaving with him for Murmansk!” And what to do? I’ll go crazy, worry, bite my nails, but I’ll have to let go. And then he will say later: “Mom, you broke my fate.” What if it goes and doesn't work out? Again he will scold me: “Why didn’t you stop me? Shouldn't have let it go!"
And how should one live correctly, so that until the end of days together - in sorrow and in joy? Is there such a recipe? Someone will live a couple of years and scatter. Others have been hand in hand all their lives. What does it depend on? From character? Don't think. And a husband can be a good person, and a wife, but it’s not their destiny to be together, and no one is to blame for this. And it happens the other way around: both the wife is not ideal, and the man is so-so - but they live in perfect harmony.
Perhaps I believe in fate: either you meet "your" person, or not. I remember sitting at the Sochi airport, waiting for a flight to Yerevan - we are going to Garik's parents. I am twenty-one years old, and I am terribly worried: how will they accept me? Will I like it?
Yerevan is a stunning, magical and very sunny city. In the evening we walk around the center of the capital of Armenia, they recognize Garik, they smile. A week goes by, a month goes by. Everyone already knows about us! Garik is a well-known person, the captain of the New Armenians team. And then he, a local, one might say, a celebrity, an enviable groom, brought a bride - a Jewess from Sochi. Not a very common case in Yerevan.
And romance begins, real relationships begin, endless flights: Yerevan - Sochi, Sochi - Yerevan - and so the whole wonderful crisis year of 1998.
- Was it difficult to adapt in Armenia? New culture, new friends...
There were difficulties with the language. I did not understand Armenian at all then. Moreover, everything is so emotional, loudly - they shout, gesticulate, everyone's energy is just over the edge.
I went to the store. The seller asked something in Armenian. I said I don't understand. She immediately switches to Russian:
And where are you from?
From Sochi.
ABOUT! I live in Sochi...
And let's list all our Sochi relatives: "Uncle Karen is on such and such a street, and Aunt Liana is on this one." She talked for about fifteen minutes, as if we had known each other very closely for a long time, and were not seeing each other for the first time. So, in terms of temperament, energy, the Armenians are somewhat similar to the inhabitants of Odessa - the soul is wide open, amazing people, cheerful people and comedians. I know firsthand about the inhabitants of Odessa - my grandfather Maurice Alexandrovich comes from Odessa. Then he moved to Abkhazia and from there to Sochi. I just love my native Sochi! My Sochi is a multinational city. Armenians, Georgians, Tatars, Russians, Jews, Adyghes live peacefully and are friends there. And for me it has always been important what character and upbringing a person has, and only then - where he comes from and what nationality. In addition, I consider myself not only a Jewess and a Russian, but also a Soviet person. We were all born and raised in the USSR!
When we went to the hospital to meet Jasmine Surenovna - she is a gynecologist, doctor of sciences - I bought a bouquet of roses. I had never seen Garik's mother before, but one day, you won't believe it, I had a dream about her. I tell my future husband about this:
I saw your mother in a dream.
And what is she?
Blonde, of course.
And here we are in the hospital. I notice: in the hall on the wall there is a huge group photo of all the doctors of the hospital, fifty women. I look at their faces - and suddenly I recognize the one from my dream!
Here's your mom! I say to Garik.
He is shocked:
Wow! And how did you know?
I told you: she dreamed of me.
Jasmine Surenovna came out, I handed her flowers, we embraced warmly. Never by a word or a hint did she let me know that she doubted the choice of her son. Although now I sometimes put myself in her place: my grown-up son brings a girl with a different worldview, mentality into the house. How will I react to this?
I myself, of course, did not really understand then what awaited me. We are very young, nothing of our own. But does it matter when love? Remember how in the famous film: “To become a general, you need to marry a lieutenant and hang around with him around the garrisons ...” So I went “to the garrisons”.
We will not take money from our parents, - the husband said before the wedding. - We'll make money.
But parents, yours and mine too, are ready to help...
Thanks to them, of course - but no! I myself.
Garik, as I remember now, borrowed three hundred dollars from friends for the first time. And we went on tour with the New Armenians. I, of course, with my husband - like a thread behind a needle.
- We could stay at home with our parents, let my husband earn money.
What are you! I'm in Sochi, he's on the road - and what kind of family is this? To make it clear: touring is not like going on a business trip for a week. A month and a half of continuous "chess" in small and large cities. Then five days off - and again on the road. There is little romance in this. But at twenty-one it seemed: oh, adventure, I'll see the world! Traveled with the "New Armenians" the whole planet - from Los Angeles to Vladivostok, from Hamburg to Alma-Ata! And as for everyday difficulties - so with a sweetheart, as they say, paradise in a hut.
"Paradise", however, turned out to be the same. There are ten guys on the team. Everyone speaks Armenian. They are having fun, laughing, but I don’t understand a word. Garik, noticing my confusion, asks his comrades:
Guys, let's speak Russian - Jeanne does not understand.
Yes, sure. Garik, dear, let's switch to Russian.
Our guys had enough for about five minutes - then they switched back to their native language, just automatically. And I decided to learn Armenian. I bought an Armenian phrase book - what can you do? I started to learn: I write out the words, I crammed behind the scenes. The first word that I remembered was "sanr", a comb. The guys always ran and shouted before the performance: “Sanr! Sanr!"
And it would be nice if there were not enough combs! The hotels in which the organizers of the Kaveen tour moved us were of a completely different level. Sometimes these were cool hotels, and sometimes the most modest ones: the toilet was on the floor, the shower did not work, the batteries were a little warm.
The guys were nervous and got out as best they could. We had to heat kettles and help each other wash our hair.
It seems that it was Krasnoyarsk - January is on the calendar, minus thirty outside the window, I wake up in the morning, and my long hair is all frosty and stuck to the iron headboard. Magic honeymoon! It is clear that sadness sometimes rolled over, but Garik was right there: “Zhanna, everything will be fine!” Autumn followed summer, spring followed winter, and we all toured.
- Of course, you didn’t think about replenishing the family in such conditions?
I really wanted to. But the internal stop valve worked - how is it possible with such and such a disorder? Once Garik said that it was time to move to Moscow: there are more opportunities in the capital. I thought: okay, maybe there will be a house there?
And he appeared - a removable "odnushka" on Suschevsky Val. In a very old building. No repairs, no curtains, no TV. Mom taught me that a woman should create comfort. I went to the store, bought the cheapest fabric and sewed curtains. I hung it up, walked away, looked - now you can live.
Somehow they returned from the next tour - and the whole apartment was in green mold: the sofa, the floor, the walls. It turned out that a month ago, the neighbors from above flooded us with hot water. Nobody told us. And the apartment turned green. We didn’t even have the strength to swear, and at whom? They sat in silence and drank tea. Then, without saying a word, they stood up. I took out soda and detergent - they began to rub and wash: walls, sofa, floor ...
There was another funny incident. Garik cherished the dream of walking to the station: “An apartment on Suschevsky Val - not far from Rizhsky. And in the summer, when we go to the festival in Jurmala, we will go to the station on foot right from the house. Beauty! It used to take a long time to get there - by bus, by subway ... "
And here comes the happy day. Summer, we have train tickets. We left, we go as we dreamed. Suddenly - crack! - the wheel of the suitcase breaks. Poor Garik has to carry this heavy trunk on himself. The road seemed like an eternity. “This is the worst road to the station in my life!” Garik sighed.
We bought groceries at the supermarket and crawled home with bags - there was no car yet. I remember how terribly cold my hands were, accustomed to the Sochi warm climate. The policemen regularly stopped us and checked our registration. They found fault: “You have a square seal, but you need a round one. Let's go to the department - well, or pay ... ”All the guys from our Armenian team were pestered.
- Have you ever worked by profession?
Tried. I got a job at a company and quit a few months later. I didn’t have time to do anything: I need to clean and wash at home, cook dinner. The most annoying thing is that our schedules did not match. I have an office job, from nine to eighteen. And Garik is a creative person, an “owl” - he writes jokes in the evening and at night almost until morning, then he sleeps a little and goes to the office. He never has enough time. With such a busy schedule, we almost stopped seeing each other. And once Garik very calmly but firmly said: “Jeanne, you have to choose. Either you work, or we build a family. Think well".
I thought: in principle, Garik is right, in such conditions the family will not last long. We survived five years of endless tours - and then we will scatter because of my work? I did not want this at all, and I chose a family. Something in life has to be sacrificed.
My husband is a crazy workaholic. He once said: "Food is a waste of time." Once we ran into a restaurant with him for a bite to eat. Garik orders a piece of "Napoleon" for himself, but while we are waiting, he answers phone calls, looks at mail in his laptop - in general, he usually works on the go. The waiter brings dessert - and Garik stuffed almost his entire piece into his mouth in one fell swoop. He chewed and swallowed and then pounded on the keys. And after some time, having drunk a sip of coffee, he suddenly said thoughtfully:
For some reason they don't bring cake...
Garik, you already ate it!
Are you kidding?!
So the Comedy Club for Garik is everything, he lives for it. Do you know how it all started? Artak Gasparyan and Tash Sargsyan, Martirosyan's comrades in the New Armenians, came up with the idea of doing parties in Moscow clubs - this is how the Comedy Club appeared. And Artur Dzhanibekyan, one of the founders and director of the team, also offered to broadcast it on TNT. Then, eleven years ago, no one could have imagined that the club show would turn into a grandiose and large-scale project - programs, own films ... They were scolded for tough jokes. And these jokes were only at first to provoke the public. Now salty humor is rarely included. Now the Comedy Club is so different that it cannot be described in two words, each viewer will find something interesting and funny for themselves.
By the way, I have never heard my husband swear. With me, never. But he pesters me with his jokes. They write their own texts in Comedy, Garik composes at the computer at night, and then asks me: “Jeanne, listen.” I am his first listener and critic. Torments at two in the morning: “Is this funny? But this? Well, imagine how I would work as a lawyer or an investigator?
One of our closest friends is Pasha Volya. Like Garik, he is a workaholic and all at work. Asked him:
What, Pash, are you not getting married?
There is no good girl.
By nature, he is a homely person, he dreamed of a family, but he never met true love. All the guys who went through the tour in their bachelorhood constantly got acquainted with the girls in the cities where they came. But these were short "novels about nothing." Crowds hung themselves on Pasha, and he dreamed of his own soul - a woman who would support, understand. And finally Volya met Laysan - she carries her and the children in her arms. I love this couple very much. I love Garika Kharlamova, about which we joke that he is the only native Muscovite in the Comedy Club - the rest "came in large numbers." He, too, finally found his soul mate - Christina, a loving and sunny girl.
Now all the guys from Comedy have wonderful families, and I will say this: the better the wives of the residents, the cooler the guys work. Almost all of us are married. One of the old-timers Timur Batrutdinov bachelor, everything is undecided. Although those wishing to marry him are a dime a dozen. Especially a lot became after he and Garik somehow got into the Forbes magazine list about eight years ago. Allegedly oligarchs! Timur has a good apartment - but not a palace and a car - not a Maybach, everything is much more modest, but he got into Forbes! They read - they died right with laughter, and Batrutdinov was the most: “Garik, Artur, you are producers - and where are my billions ?!”
Garik is also not an oligarch, he does not pump oil. Humor, of course, brings money, we even finally bought an apartment - spacious, in a very good area. But, for example, a country house, which we have been dreaming about for a long time, we cannot afford yet. True, Garik promises: "Everything will be" - and I believe him.
Comedy Club has changed our lives a lot. There are more possibilities. More friends. And so everything is old. And Garik is still the same. Our friends are the same circle, the same people who were there almost eighteen years ago, when our family first appeared.
I know for sure: in order to write and shoot funny sketches, Garik must be happy. Therefore, for myself, I defined the task as follows: to keep my husband in a good mood. Moreover, it is not difficult, Garik is an optimist in life and not a bore. True, as a doctor by first education, he is very meticulous in matters of children's health. Whenever Jasmine (daughter 11) or Daniel (son 6) catch a little cold, Gar starts calling every five minutes:
How is the temperature?
You and I just talked - the temperature can't drop so quickly.
Ah, well, yes...
Ten minutes later, another call:
Well, what about the temperature?
Garik! I gave medicine. Work calmly, everything is fine.
I forbid children to tell dad that the tummy hurts or the rash popped up - first tell mom, and then I will decide whether father needs to know. Sometimes it's easier to leave Garik in the dark than to answer his nervous calls all day later.
No need to get him home problems. Although the last word, of course, is always his. I praise constantly: men also love with their ears. I text him: "I love you." For me, Garik is the best in everything. Sometimes I can break like a woman - it happens to everyone.
Recently, she attacked her husband because of nonsense - he threw his jacket on the sofa.
Is it hard to hang in a closet? And he scattered his socks! - And Garik does not like it when they raise their voice. He looked at me like that. I immediately began to count to ten to myself, calmed down and said: - Oh, why am I yelling like in a forest? There are no deaf people here. A fly, or what, what kind of bitten?
Garik immediately looked completely different, he laughed:
You should try so that no one else bites you, otherwise I will bite you.
Martirosyan, fortunately, is quick-witted and unforgiving.
- Do you manage the house yourself?
Basically yes. But there is an au pair - Gaya, she is from Yerevan. I heard stories that someone’s nanny was stolen, so when Gaya appeared in our house, she began to check her: I’ll “forget” the money in a conspicuous place, then I’ll put a ring. Gaia brings: "Jeanne, here is your thing, I found it." Never failed. Now she is like family to us.
- Didn’t your spouse want to somehow “check”?
Never. It is pointless. And my advice to all women - before you get into your husband's phone, think carefully. For example, I never climb into Garik's phone. He, however, has a password there, but I know this password! Fortunately, Garik and I trust each other very much and, moreover, there was no such situation that I doubted my husband. And I was also very lucky - Garik is not in any social network, and life is easier that way. Both me and him. Life is too short to waste it on jealousy.
You just need to be able to be happy and enjoy life, because when a real misfortune happens, then you understand: where are the little things, and where is the real grief.
Four years ago, I lost my beloved dad. He had health problems. I even yelled at him:
You must take care of yourself!
And he answered:
Jannusik, don't worry. How much I am measured, so much I will live.
It all ended sadly, the disease simply devoured him. But I didn't know about it. Garik and I already lived in Moscow, my father called from Sochi: "I'm fine, I take pills." Then he called from the hospital: “I passed the tests, everything is fine. The doctors said they would treat him and let him go.” The voice sounded cheerful. And two days later I'm sitting on the set of the Comedy Club, Garik performs on stage. And suddenly a call from Sochi, like a butt on the head: "Your father is no more." And then bitter thoughts that now will never be released: why didn’t I fly right away as soon as I found out that he was in the hospital? Why didn't dad tell him how bad he was? Could I change something, extend his days?!
I went up to Garik and told him about our grief. He turned pale. But you can’t cancel the shooting, you won’t say: “We have misfortune here, go home.” I worked out the program as best I could, and at night we flew to Sochi to say goodbye to my father. They held hands the whole way.
Every family has its own idea of happiness. People are all different. There are many recipes for happiness, everyone chooses their own. For example, we have a patriarchy. This is when a woman is behind her husband. In my opinion, it was so conceived by nature: a man is strong, he makes decisions. In another family, the wife is like a mother, and her husband is like a son, I would not be able to live like that, but this is their happiness. Everyone has their own.
Here Garik, on his rare day off, plays football with his son in the corridor. And I run, waving my arms, and shout: “Caution - a chandelier !!! Don't hit the lamp! Attention - a mirror! They care about who scores a goal, and me - how to save property. But with what happiness then the son’s eyes shine, he walks proud all day and tells everyone: “And I won football with my dad!” The daughter writes scripts, shoots clips - daddy's genes. He grows up as a tomboy: “Mom, you don’t need a dress, it’s uncomfortable in it, give me torn jeans, and I ran.”
We often fly to Sochi as a family to soak up the sun. We especially like to be there in winter: blue sky, green palm trees. We also fly to Yerevan, also a native place.
I am very grateful to Garik's mother. He treats me very warmly, helps with the children. I remember my daughter was brought from the hospital. I look at her, very tiny, and terribly terrifying - tiny hands, tiny fingers, how to take her so as not to hurt? It is necessary to process the navel with brilliant green, and I feel how I “floated” directly (not even from fear, but from a sense of responsibility: a living little person, a child!), A veil before my eyes. Fortunately, Jasmine Surenovna was nearby (she came from Yerevan to help us with her granddaughter). I heard her confident voice: “Zhanna, pull yourself together! Breathe deeply: one-two!” - and calmness and strength of mind immediately returned to me.
Garik's mother taught me how to cook Armenian dishes, such as his favorite dolma. She is a great grandmother, the children are happy to visit Yerevan. Needless to say, I was lucky with my mother-in-law, I can’t even imagine how difficult it is for women who cannot find a common language with their husband’s mother. I really fell in love with Armenia, the homeland of Garik, I made my closest friends - Arthur Janibekyan and his beautiful wife Elina, my closest friend, with whom we have been inseparable for seventeen years. I learned the ancient Armenian language - now it is my second mother tongue. The son and daughter speak Armenian fluently, as well as Russian.
It is important that they know their roots. Our children are very cheerful and cheerful, our family is generally cheerful. We love holidays, gifts, surprises. Garik is a master of sports in surprises. Each of my birthdays is a testing ground for new ideas. For example, on my last birthday, I gathered all my friends and girlfriends, and my husband, secretly from me, invited my favorite singer Valery Syutkin with musicians. The restaurant is not very big, everything is in plain sight, and poor Syutkin sat with his back for an hour so as not to be noticed! And I was in the bustle and did not see my favorite artist. About two hours after the start of the holiday, Garik suddenly grabs a microphone, calls me to the stage and says:
I love you so much that you have no idea what I have done for you!
Do you know who will sing for you now?
I stand as if rooted to the spot. And behind my back the musicians are already tuning in.
And then my eyes are closed behind me. Everyone yells and applauds. I'm shocked! The loud voice of Garik is heard:
- For Jeanne, especially for her birthday, the legendary Valery Syutki-i-in !!!
I was so excited, I can't even describe my feelings. We danced until we dropped! And Valery set such a mood that my birthday turned into a real concert. In the wake of Syutkin's musical performance on stage, not according to the program, but as a surprise, he sang Soso Pavliashvili with whom we are very friendly. Then, just as improvised, our favorite singer, Alsou, came out, then the fantastic Armenian orchestra seized the initiative, and away we go! The night ended with a grand fireworks display - another surprise from Yan Abramov, Alsou's husband. So I, one might say, is already practically my own in show business.
But from my childhood dream of becoming an investigator, there is only one hobby left - I like to shoot. In my free time I go to the shooting gallery, so I relieve stress. I'm generally obsessed with weapons. Sometimes I even go hunting. Garik is, by the way, terribly amusing.
Recently in Yerevan, acquaintances took my husband and I to a military training ground, where police officers pass the standards. They gave me a shot - I knocked everything out in ten. “Wow,” the hosts did not hide their astonishment. “Not every officer can do that.”
I smiled, and thought to myself that I might be a good investigator, but fate gave me a completely different role - wife and mother. Which I am very happy about.
We would like to thank Mebeland Furniture Salon for their help in organizing the shooting.
Often a trip to the clinic is a serious test for the psyche of many. With kilometer-long queues and nervous patients nearby, it is difficult to maintain peace of mind, especially if a suspicious red spot has formed on the forehead, which scared the patients away. Martirosyan's wife spoke about her unforgettable visit to the hospital on Instagram.
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“It’s hard to find a more informative place than the queue to the doctor. As soon as I went up to the second floor of the clinic, I found myself in the thick of things. The Bermuda Triangle, in which there was no hope for quick help, was located on the site between the offices of a dermatologist, an ENT and a therapist. resembled one large living organism that moved with difficulty, actively talked and sighed loudly. "YES, you have lichen!" My neighbor exclaimed, pointing a finger at my red spot on her forehead. Citizens, despite their problems, hearing this, decided to delve into mine as well. After all, my problem, at any moment, could become their problem. Whispering, the queue decided whether I was contagious or not. Judging by the fact that there was a lot of free space near me, the conclusions were drawn not in my favor (hereinafter, spelling and the author's punctuation are preserved. - Approx. ed.), "Zhanna wrote with irony.
Hearing the word "lichen", Garik's wife herself became seriously nervous. “My red spot at this time felt like a star in my forehead and became even brighter. “Are there spots on the body?” - the lady did not let up. From the looks of those around it was clear that everyone was waiting for an answer, while the more faint-hearted simply demanded clarification. The situation was saved by a newly arrived young man who recklessly decided to go into the therapist's office. The line tensed up, straightened up like a string, and tearing their throats, yelled. "Where without a queue?" - "I just need to put a seal," the criminal muttered apologetically. - "Put a seal on your forehead!" yelled the Queue. After the word "Forehead", the defenders of their rights and freedoms remembered me. The queue did not know how to treat me - to sympathize with a girl with a pink spot or hate a woman with a contagious red forehead, "Zhanna continued the entertaining story in a humorous vein.
With dignity, a friend helped the wife of a Comedy Club resident to get out of this delicate situation. True, the diagnosis of Martirosyan's wife puzzled the caring patients somewhat. “While the Queue was bursting with controversy, my friend, who worked as a dermatologist in this clinic, called me and asked me to go to her office. I said that I wouldn’t go without a queue - I’m afraid. Doctor!". "Thank you, I'll wait for my turn." "Listen to the doctor!" - the Queue shouted in a heart-rending voice. - We'll wait, and you go. "Well, if you ask?" I asked uncertainly. "Yes, come in you are already in this office!” the Queue loudly pleaded. The desire to queue is the law! The diagnosis was made quickly. Leaving the office, I announced: “Hives, gentlemen!” And to the sounds of phones and a chorus of questioning voices, “OK, Google, what is urticaria?" I left the clinic," Jeanne completed her opus.
Perhaps Google told uninformed and insensitive patients that their fears about lichen were unfounded. According to open sources, urticaria is a skin disease (dermatitis of predominantly allergic origin), characterized by the rapid appearance of intensely itchy, flat raised pale pink blisters, similar in appearance to blisters from a nettle burn. Urticaria can be an independent (usually allergic) reaction to some irritant, or is one of the manifestations of a disease.
Garik Yurievich Martirosyan- artistic director and "resident" of the Comedy Club show (Comedy Club) on the TNT channel, a former KVN star, a bright TV presenter, a witty showman.
The childhood of Garik Martirosyan and his education
Father - Yuri Mikhailovich Martirosyan(born in 1942) - mechanical engineer.
Mother - Jasmine Surenovna Martirosyan(born in 1950) — gynecologist, doctor of sciences.
Younger brother Levon Yurievich Martirosyan(born in 1976) headed the United Liberal National Party (MIAK) of Armenia, Assistant to the President of Armenia.
Martirosyan's paternal grandfather Mikhail Arkadyevich (1911−1984) was a mathematics teacher and school director. Maternal grandfather Suren Nikolaevich (born 1919) worked as Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR (the biography on Wikipedia refers to the post of Deputy Minister of Trade).
The “interlocutor”, referring to Martirosyan’s childhood friends, reported that the influential grandfather helped his grandson, so at school “Garyk was in“ full chocolate ”, he was trusted to wear the school banner, and on the rulers he was instructed to read the best poems.
“Suren Nikolayevich never refused to help anyone. Grandfather's kindness helped the grandson to break out into the people. Garik came from Yerevan to Moscow, as to his hometown, where he immediately became a member of the highest secular circles, ”Martirosyan’s school friends quoted the publication as saying.
In addition to high school, Garik also attended music at the same time. Despite his outstanding musical abilities, Garik was nevertheless expelled from the music school for bad behavior, according to Martirosyan's biography on Wikipedia.
And yet, Garik himself learned to play the piano, guitar and percussion instruments. He even composed his own music.
The talent of an artist and comedian manifested itself in him from childhood, as reported in the biography of Garik Martirosyan, already in the first grade, Garik surprised his friends with the news that he was a grandson Leonid Brezhnev.
At school, Martirosyan played in performances, in particular, in the sixth grade he played Archimedes.
Having received a secondary education, Garik Martirosyan entered the Yerevan State Medical University, after which he received a diploma as a neuropathologist-psychotherapist. Garik Martirosyan himself, in his biography on the official website, explained the choice of education as a doctor with the conviction that "every person should have at least basic knowledge in the field of medicine."
Garik Martirosyan's career in show business
But Martirosyan did not have a chance to make a career as a doctor; Garik worked in the medical field for only three years. The young doctor was completely fascinated by the game in KVN, after which his biography was connected with television and show business. However, Garik has repeatedly noted that the education of a psychotherapist helps him in life, in particular, "to see people through."
Garik Martirosyan participated as a player in the KVN team of Yerevan University (1993-2002). The team was called "New Armenians". Since 1997, Garik has been the captain of this popular team.
As part of the KVN team "New Armenians", Garik became the champion of the Major League in 1997, received the Summer Cup twice (1998, 2003), in general, Martirosyan can be called one of the brightest stars of KVN of the 90s, while every year it was you can see that he is progressing after the show Alexandra Maslyakova the captain of the "New Armenians" will make a successful career in television.
A talented young man showed himself not only as a witty KVNschik, the first television projects appeared in his career. In 1997, Garik Martirosyan became the chief scriptwriter of the TV program “Good evening with Igor Ugolnikov».
In 2003, members of the KVN team "New Armenians", in particular Artur Janibekyan, Artak Gasparyan, Artur Tumasyan, Artashes Sargsyan and Garik Martirosyan created a new project - "Comedy Club" ("Comedy Club").
"Comedy Club" at first did not take root on the MTV and STS channels, but since April 2005 it began to air on the TNT channel. A new project with former KVN stars and new comedians quickly gained popularity, in 2007 the Comedy Club got its own production company Comedy Club Production.
Garik Martirosyan in April 2010 replaced Tash Sargsyan as the main host of the Comedy Club, and in 2015 he took on this role Pavel Volya, who in 2017 often helps in this capacity Garik Kharlamov. Martirosyan is also always there and ready to insert a witty comment. It is Garik Martirosyan who is considered the main figure of the Comedy Club show, both as a comedian and as an organizer.
Garik actively participated in many television projects in addition to the Comedy Club. Since November 2006, Martirosyan has acted as a co-producer and co-author of the script for the television show Our Russia (TNT). This show has also become very popular, and Garik himself plays the operator Rudik in one of the storylines. Later, Garik Martirosyan became the producer and scriptwriter of the film Our Russia: Eggs of Destiny (released in 2010), in which he also played a small role.
The audience saw Martirosyan as a TV presenter on the program "Minute of Glory". Garik Martirosyan was also one of the hosts of the TV show ProjectorParisHilton (2008-2012 and since March 2017). The show was a breakthrough, the presenters in the studio discussed news and newspaper articles with humor, and the VIP guest always joked with them. Garik is distinguished by subtle, soft and tactful humor, but in this program Martirosyan also showed his musicality, played a lot and sang along with Ivan Urgant, Alexander Tsekalo And Sergei Svetlakov. By the way, in the winter of 2007 he took part in the recording of Pavel Volya's album "Respect and Respect".
"ProjectorParisHilton" received TEFI, winning in the nomination "Best Infotainment Program" four times - from 2008 to 2011.
ProjectorParisHilton had to be closed in 2012 due to Sergey Svetlakov and Garik Martirosyan, who signed new contracts with TNT. The TV channel regretted the closure of the project, but decided not to change the composition of the presenters. In February 2017, fans of the program were pleased with the news about the return of the ProjectorParisHilton project.
Garik Martirosyan had a hand in the Comedy Battle project on TNT, the popular presenter is often on the jury with Semyon Slepakov and Sergey Svetlakov or other colleagues. The transfer is a casting of future comedians who can make a career in a real Comedy Club. At the same time, the audience should be attracted not only by the jokes of novice comedians, but also by the reaction of the jury to them.
The website of the project says that Garik Martirosyan “as a jury member pays special attention to high-quality literary humor” and “has shown himself to be a person who, first of all, is not about form, but content.”
Garik Martirosyan was the host of the first season of the musical project "Main Stage" on the channel "Russia-1" (from January 30 to April 17, 2015). Since March 7, 2016, Garik Martirosyan has been the host of the 10th season of the Dancing with the Stars project on the Russia-1 channel.
At the same time, "Comedy Club" remains one of the main areas of Garik Martirosyan's work, among the most popular numbers of his performance in a duet with Garik Kharlamov, "Casting for Eurovision", "Conversation between Stalin and Beria" and many others.
Martirosyan's current work in cinema is the film "Zomboyaschik". In the news, the picture is presented as "a total comedy produced by TNT and Comedy Club Production." The release in wide release is scheduled for January 25, 2018. Garik Martirosyan, along with other stars of the Comedy Club, should appear in one of the main roles.
Garik Martirosyan's income and his awards
Forbes magazine placed Garik Martirosyan three times in the Top Russian Celebrities rating. In 2010, Garik took 25th place in it with an income of $ 2.7 million. The next year it was 27th place, and Martirosyan's income reached $ 2.8 million. With the same amount, Garik in 2012 took 41st place and more in the income ranking from Forbes did not appear.
In 2007, Garik Martirosyan received the Humor of the Year award from Humor FM radio (in the Showman nomination) and GQ Man of the Year (in the TV Face nomination).
Personal life of Garik Martirosyan
Garik Yurievich Martirosyan is married. Wife - Zhanna Levina- A lawyer by profession. Garik met her on the KVN program in 1997 in Sochi. In the biography of the comedian, it is reported that his future wife came to Sochi, being a big fan of the Stavropol Law University team. The support of friends was combined with usefulness, since then in Garik Martirosyan's personal life only his wife Jeanne. At least, there was no news about Martirosyan's other interests in the yellow press.
The wedding of Garik Martirosyan took place in Cyprus, and all members of the New Armenians KVN team were witnesses.
The family of Garik Martirosyan and Jeanne has two children. Daughter - Jasmine (2004) and son - Daniel (2009). Young parents closely monitor the development of children. “We have such a routine in our family: Russian is required, English is very desirable, and Armenian is sacred, you need to know,” Garik said.
Garik Martirosyan actively uploads photos on Instagram, where you can see his wife Zhanna and daughter Jasmine. The comedian loves to please fans with his photos of school times, he also uploads pictures from the filming of Comedy Club and ProjectorParisHilton. Martirosyan's Instagram is quite popular, he has over 1.2 million followers.
Garik loves to surprise the audience not only with his instant humor. Recently, the famous showman and resident of the Comedy Club surprised fans with an extravagant trick. The 42-year-old presenter shaved his head. The reason for the new image was the first goal of compatriot Martirosyan - Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the English Premier League. Before the Manchester United-Tottenham match, Garik promised that if his compatriot Mkhitaryan scores and United win, he will shave his head. Garik kept his promise and posted a photo on his Instagram account.
The biography of Garik Martirosyan on Wikipedia says that he is a fan of Lokomotiv and Manchester United. But recently, after the victory of Spartak over Sevilla (5: 1), Martirosyan posted the emblem of red and white on Instagram. By the way, the aforementioned Mkhitaryan supported Spartak in childhood.
In 2009, Garik Martirosyan hit the news, leading a kind of rating from the developer of antivirus software. The well-known comedian was in the lead in terms of the number of links given out when searching for information about him in search engines, 12.42% of the links when searching for "Garik Martirosyan" are dangerous.
