The truth has long been known: whoever laughs a lot, lives long. And who are these people who prolong our lives? Whose jokes make you laugh to tears? Comedians of Russia (the rating of the most popular names will be presented below) have become for each of us a real salvation from the gray days.
The following categories are offered to your attention:
- Comedians of the new generation.
- The richest comedians.
- Veterans of humor
- Women who know how to laugh.
- Shows and duets that make us happy.
Comedians of Russia - a new generation
Who will make the next generation laugh? Whom does today's youth bow down to? What are these people? We present you only the most famous names:
- Timur Batrutdinov - humorist, resident of the Comedy Club. Timur tried to find his destiny on the show "The Bachelor", but, unfortunately or fortunately, nothing happened.
- Ruslan Bely performs in the StandUp genre. This is a talent that came to humor from the military.
- Mikhail Galustyan - KVN, actor, presenter.
- Semyon Slepakov - bard, comedian, jury member in the Comedy Battle show.
- Vadim Galygin - Comedy Club, actor.
- Ivan Urgant - humorist, TV presenter, actor.
- Alexander Revva is a showman, actor, humorist, TV presenter and just a wonderful person.
- Stas Starovoitov - StandUp.
- Sergey Svetlakov is an actor, TV presenter, humorist, screenwriter, jury member on many humorous shows.
- Andrey Shchelkov - KVNschik, film actor, beat-boxer.
The richest satirists and comedians of Russia
It is interesting, but which of our artists of the comedy genre managed to not only win fame with their talent, but also make good money. So, the list of comedians-satirists who made their capital on laughter:
Veterans of humor
The names of people who stood at the very origins of Russian humor and managed to keep their fans to this day:
- Mikhail Zadornov.
- Evgeny Petrosyan.
- Arkady Raikin.
- Gennady Khazanov.
- Yuri Stoyanov.
- Alexander Tsekalo.
- Yefim Shifrin.
- Lyon Izmailov.
- Mikhail Evdokimov.
- Yury Nikulin.
Women who know how to laugh
If earlier among comedians women's names were quite rare, today ladies have declared in full voice that they know how to joke no worse than men. The list of women who really know how to make laugh and understand what humor is is presented below.
So, comedians of Russia (surnames) - a list of female names:
- Elena Borshcheva - KVN girl, film roles, participant in the Comedy Vumen show.
- Elena Sparrow - a parody.
- Natalya Andreevna - KVN girl, participant in the Comedy Vumen show.
- Ekaterina Varnava - "Comedy Vumen", the recognized sex symbol of the show.
- Clara Novikova - colloquial genre.
- Elena Stepanenko - colloquial genre, wife of Evgeny Petrosyan.
- Ekaterina Skulkina - "Comedy Vumen".
- Rubtsova Valentina - actress, the main role of the series "SashaTanya".
- Nadezhda Sysoeva - participant of "Comedy Vumen".
Shows and duets that make us happy
- Quartet I has been bringing joy since 1993.
- Comedy Club is a youth show that has existed since 2003.
- "Comedy Wumen" is the female answer to the Comedy Club.
- "Comedy Battle".
- "New Russian grandmothers".
- "False mirror".
Of course, these are not all Russian artists who give us a smile, cheer us up and entertain us in the evenings. But these are the names that are most often heard and deserve respect. We hope that their jokes will be heard for many years to come!
Nowadays, various humorous television programs are popular, among which are Our Russia, the searchlight Paris Hilton, the Comedy Club, the Evening Quarter. A couple of decades ago, satirists tried to win the attention of the public.
Surprisingly, many people successfully coped with the task. Recently, satirists have practically not appeared on television. Moreover, modern satire has become commonplace, as it has lost the amazing subtlety of humor.
Arkady Raikin is a well-known pop and theater actor.
In addition, he became famous as:
- director;
- comedian;
- screenwriter.
Throughout his career, Arkady Raikin managed not only to find hundreds of thousands of admirers, but also to win prestigious awards:
- Hero of Socialist Labor;
- Lenin Prize;
- People's Artist of the USSR.
You can guess how special was the career of one of the best satirists, who managed to find a large number of admirers.
Gennady Khazanov became famous in several guises at once:
- artist;
- theater and film actor;
- head of the Variety Theater in Moscow;
- public figure.
Most of the satirical performances assumed that Gennady Khazanov would show his talent through two images: a parrot and a student at a culinary college.
Mikhail Zadornov is a famous satirist writer. Career successfully started in the USSR, but it continues in Russia. Among the achievements is an honorary membership in the Writers' Union of Russia. Over the entire career, Mikhail Zadornov has released more than 10 books written in the following genres:
- humoresques;
- essays;
- plays;
- travel notes;
- lyrical and satirical stories;
- plays.
The peak of fame was noted in 1995 - 2005, when Mikhail Zadornov spoke with personally written stories dedicated to the peculiarities of life in America.
Yevgeny Petrosyan is a well-known humorist whose career began in the USSR. Despite this, he still pleases his admirers with sparkling talent. In Soviet times, each performance of Petrosyan was released on records, the sales of which showed only the best performance.
Yevgeny Petrosyan showed himself worthy in the following areas of activity:
- writer-humorist;
- conversational artist;
- comedy show host.
One of the most worthy awards confirms that Evgeny Petrosyan is a real people's artist of the Russian Federation.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky is a famous writer of satirical stories. At the same time, he successfully performs his own works, showing acting talent. It should be noted that all the works of Zhvanetsky are a worthy embodiment of Odessa charm, which can be appreciated in the shortest possible time.
Yefim Shifrin is a famous Soviet and Russian actor who successfully shows his talent. In most cases, Yefim speaks in a colloquial genre, trying to convey the refined charm of his humor.
Arkady Arkanov is a well-known personality in the humorous direction of art:
- satirist writer;
- TV presenter;
- playwright.
Real legends are about the creative political correctness and amazing intelligence of Arkady Arkanov. It is he who always fulfills his promises and comes to meetings on time. Of course, a sharp mind and talent find manifestation in satire. The stories presented are suitable for people of all ages.
Semyon Altov (real name - Altshuler) is a famous Russian and Russian writer of satirical works. The writer has a sophisticated sense of humor, which is combined with reality and human abilities. At the same time, Semyon Altov often uses his beautiful voice to successfully convey the true meaning of his works.
Jan Arlazorov
Yan Arlazorov is a well-known Russian representative of the theatrical world. At the same time, he managed to become a famous pop artist and even receive the award of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
The catchphrase is “Hey, man!”, which actually can be invested with amazing meaning.
Jan Arlazorov was not surprisingly popular in the USSR. Soviet residents believed that he had a very low level of humor. Despite this, talent is gradually improving and, of course, finds manifestation in numerous areas of life.
Lion Izmailov is a Russian writer of satirical stories, screenwriter, and entertainer. Creative activity successfully started in the 1970s. In 1979, Lion Izmailov entered the Writers' Union of the USSR, which was a confirmation of his creative potential.
Perhaps the 21st century will please a large number of talented people who have sophisticated humor and can successfully display it ... You just need to follow the representatives of the stage.
Laughter not only improves mood, but also, as you know, prolongs life. Accordingly, people who know how to make people laugh are doing a noble deed. Russia is rich in comedians. Many of them are known to both adults and children. After all, performances are aimed at groups of various ages. There are many amazing people to remember. And their performances are different: some perform solo, while others prefer group performances. And it is simply impossible to fit them all into one list.
The best comedians of Russia - "youth" list
Each viewer has their own views on the performance of comedians. Adapting to everyone and becoming universal is a task for professionals in their field. Only the most talented comedians of Russia can surprise and make the audience laugh. List of the best of them:
Russian comedians of the "older generation"
Among the comedians performing on the Russian stage, there are not only young people. After all, two or three decades ago, completely different photos of Russian comedians were found everywhere. Other people working in a different genre of satire. Russian comedians who possessed a certain subtlety of humor and a sense of tact, which modern comedians sometimes lack.
Women comedians
The satirist is not only a male occupation. Russian comedians are known - representatives of the female half of humanity. Their names also occupy a significant niche among the humorists of the country. The most popular of them can be considered:
- Klara Novikova;
- Elena Stepanenko;
- Catherine Barnabas;
- Natalya Andreevna.
The most popular duets of comedians
Not all Russian comedians prefer solo performances. To give the audience their good mood, some of them created wonderful duets.
Special attention deserves such talented Russian comedians working together as:
- brothers and Valery);
- Nikolai Bandurin and;
- and Vladimir Danilets;
- Sergei Chvanov and Igor Kasilov (better known as "New Russian Grandmas");
- Irina Borisova and Alexey Egorov.
These people diversify boring everyday life and bring a lot of positive. They will help get rid of boredom and distract from routine worries.
Humorous projects
No matter how different Russian comedians are, they all strive to convey their positive and good mood to the listener. And it is not surprising that people with the same goal unite among themselves. For comedians, there are "habitats". There is always a mood of celebration and fun. These "sites" are:
- Comedy Club is a place where different types of humor meet: satire, skits, monologues, songs.
- "Our Russia" is a humorous series that brought together many talented comedians and actors into one picture.
- Comedy Battle is a show for non-professional comedians. Organized as a competition of comedians for the main prize - participation in the Comedy Club.
- - a quiet and calm "place" where Russian comedians perform their monologues.
- "HB-show" - a sketch of a duet of comedians Garik Kharlamov and Timur Batrutdinov
Russian comedians make fun of everyday situations, ordinary cases from life in a subtle and intelligent form. The viewer does not need to adapt to anyone. A large number of comedians allows everyone to choose the right option for themselves.
Humorous programs of the Comedy Clubs and Nasha Rashi, the projector Paris Hilton, the Evening Quarter are now popular, and 20-30 years ago, completely different people occupied the stage in the genre of satire.
To be honest, I don’t like the modern satire that spills out on the TV screen - this is rubbish and only KVN has retained the former subtlety of humor.
So, the top 10 Soviet and Russian satirists
1
Soviet pop and theater actor, director, screenwriter, humorist, People's Artist of the USSR (1968), Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1980).
2
Russian artist, theater and film actor, public figure, head of the Moscow Variety Theater. People's Artist of Russia (1994).
He was remembered for his performance in the form of a parrot and a student at a culinary college.
3
Soviet and Russian satirist, playwright, member of the Russian Writers' Union. Author of over ten books. Among them - lyrical and satirical stories, humoresques, essays, travel notes and plays.
He gained particular popularity in 1995-2005, when he began to read his stories about America.
4
Soviet and Russian writer-humorist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, conversational artist and TV presenter. I remember a joke:
A good joke prolongs life by 15 minutes, and a bad one kills by taking away precious minutes, let's welcome the serial killer - Evgeny Petrosyan.
In Soviet times, his performances were released on records and were very popular.
Russian satirist and performer of his own works. His humor is distinguished by a special Odessa charm.
6
Soviet and Russian actor, often performs in a colloquial genre, his humor has a special charm.
7
Russian satirist, playwright, TV presenter. There are legends about the creative political correctness and the highest stage of intelligence of Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov! Behind him there is not a single given word that he would not keep and there is not a single minute of being late somewhere. The maestro's jokes are always smart, sharp and directed to the very essence, from where the great genre, Satire, originates.
8
Soviet and Russian satirist. The real name is Altshuler. The writer jokes: “If over the years the liquefaction of the brain occurs, and I can no longer write, then, thanks to my voice, I will go to the “phone sex” service.
9
Russian theater actor and pop artist, Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the All-Russian Competition of Variety Artists.
I remember, the phrase "Hey, man", was not very popular in Soviet times, it was believed that Arlazorov's humor was too low.
10
Russian entertainer, satirist.
Maryan Belenky is a writer, translator, journalist, colloquial artist. Since 1991 he has been living in "Israel".
Maryan Davidovich, you claim that Soviet humor was Jewish and Soviet mass song was Jewish ...
I can repeat this again. At the heart of Soviet humor is Sholom Aleichem's message "I'm fine, I'm an orphan."
Few representatives of national minorities on the stage, in this case Russians, such as Trushkin, Koklyushkin, Zadornov, faked the same style: “Oh, how bad we are!”
By the way, in "Israel" itself, Sholom Aleichem is far from being the most popular writer. The humor is completely different.
Let's talk about the Soviet song. As you wrote: “Many songs thundered over the Volga, but the tune was not the same for the songs.” The correct chant was...
Pokrass brothers, Matvey Blanter, Isaac Dunayevsky, Sigismund Katz, Alexander Tsfasman, Leonid Utyosov, Mark Bernes, Arkady Ostrovsky, Oscar Feltsman, Mark Fradkin, Jan Frenkel, Vladimir Shainsky, Jan Galperin, Arkady Khaslavsky... And this is far from complete list.
"Russian field". Words by Inna Goff, music by Jan Frenkel, performed by Iosif Kobzon, accompanied by the All-Union Radio Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Gauk.
Music editor of the radio program "Good morning!" Leo Steinreich.
Soviet pop song began with folk Jewish melodies.
Remember Utyosov's hits "Keep the style" and "Uncle Elya". And Comrade Stalin liked it! Utyosov (Lazar Weinsboim) took part in all New Year's concerts in the Kremlin with the participation of Joseph Vissarionovich. The leader often asked to repeat the songs.
Comrade Stalin loved Jewish songs?!
Not Jewish, but Soviet. But which were created under strong influence.
It is interesting that a person of Russian culture recognizes the Hasidic melodies in "Israel" right off the bat.
This is blatnyak, or, as they say now, “Russian chanson”. True, the texts are different. Once I asked Vladimir Matviyenko, a well-known musicologist and associate professor at the Kyiv Conservatory: “How can you explain that all thieves’ folklore is sung to one melody?”
He replied: “All Russian composers dragged a hippopotamus out of the swamp. Blatnyak is the energy with which the hippo flops back into the swamp.
Stalin, of course, was a lover of thieves' folklore. After all, he himself, in his youth, hunted with banditry - he protected the oil fields in Baku.
Recently, in the Vzglyad newspaper, you published an analysis of the Soviet stage, which caused a great resonance. You write that Russians in "Israel" are very surprised to hear a cantor (khazan) in the synagogue praising the Lord to the tune "Nightingales, nightingales, do not disturb the soldiers." Excuse me, but the author of the song is Russian - Solovyov-Sedoy. What do you want to say?
Nothing. Only that it is a popular cantorial chant from the 19th century.
Let's remember once again who reigned on the stage in the 50s.
For the young, these names are unlikely to say anything, except, perhaps, Arkady Raikin. Dykhovichny and Slobodskoy, Mass and Chervinsky, Vickers and Kanevsky, Mironova and Menaker, Mirov and Novitsky, Viktor Ardov, Alexander Izrailevich Shurov (coupletist, partner of Rykunin); founder of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures Vladimir Solomonovich Polyakov; Raikin's authors Mark Azov and Vladimir Tikhvinsky...
However, the family is not without its black sheep. Somehow Nikolai Smirnov-Sokolsky got into this company. The only non-Jewish author by Raikin that I know of is Sinakevich
In the 60s, through the program "Good morning!" department of satire and humor of the All-Union Radio, a new generation came to Soviet pop humor: Gorin, Arkanov, Izmailov, Livshits and Levenbuk.
70s - Khazanov, Shifrin, Klara Novikova. Semyon Altov and Mikhail Mishin began to write in St. Petersburg.
On television, the programs “Merry Majordomo”, “Terem-Teremok” appeared, which, as they say, were closed due to the abundance of non-indigenous people among the authors and actors.
Three Jews stood at the origins of KVN: director Mark Rozovsky, doctor Albert Axelrod, host of the first KVN, actor Ilya Rutberg (Yulia's father). You will laugh, but the first Soviet TV set KVN-49 was also invented by three Jews: Kenigson, Varshavsky, Nikolaevsky.
Now the 70s.
I already got them. Wherever I went, there were Jews everywhere - concert administrators, directors, editors of humor sections in radio programs, authors, actors, cashiers.
There was also Ukrainian humor in Kyiv, which was written by Ukrainian authors and performed by Ukrainian actors.
And in Moscow in those years, the dominance of Jews in this genre was almost one hundred percent.
I do not evaluate this phenomenon, I only state what I witnessed. The only Jew in the polar town of Labytnangi, where we were brought on tour, turned out to be the administrator of the local philharmonic society named Ostrovsky. There was a legend about him:
“Richter arrives in a distant northern city with a single concert. At the end of the concert, Ostrovsky hands him a ticket ... to a reserved seat car. Two days to Moscow.
- Excuse me, I'm still Richter, - the great musician was indignant.
- Hey, don't fool around. There are many Richters, but only Ostrovsky.
I remember back in the 80s I approached Lion Izmailov - I'm supposedly a pop author, take me to concerts. He looked at me like a cockroach: "We need to arrange our own." Yours? But I'm also a Jew and also an author...
He meant Moscow.
All this was like a child's game: the members of one team firmly hold hands, the other - they are trying to break through this defense. Few managed to break through.
Did anything change in the 80s?
The theme of sketches and monologues remained the same. The main thing is to keep the muzzle in your pocket, to deceive the censorship, to play on pause. Here is a classic move with which we deceived censorship. This trick was invented by the actor Pavel Muravsky back in the 30s:
“Life in our country is getting worse and worse every day...
(Hall gasps.)
A friend of mine told me...
(Sigh of relief.)
And he's right...
(Hall gasps.)
Because the speculators in our country are really getting worse every day ... "
Three turns in one phrase. When it is written without pauses, the censor does not cut the chip.
Like Zhvanetsky: “And then the shortcomings of the entire system ... of the scientific organization of labor were trampled down.”
In the early 90s, a new team appeared. Lev Novozhenov was the editor of the Moskovsky Komsomolets humor department, where Shenderovich, Irteniev, Vishnevsky (and your humble servant, if anyone remembers) published.
The paradox is that I - the author of this image - is far from delighted with the image of Aunt Sonya created by Clara Novikova.
I have never been a supporter of "Jewishness" - pedaling a Jewish accent, increased gesticulation, thumbs under the armpits and other exaggerated signs of the image of a Jew.
Aunt Sonya and Uncle Yasha remained in the distant past. Their time is irrevocably gone. We, the inhabitants of large cities - Jews by nationality, no longer have anything to do with that forever gone shtetl life. And I am categorically opposed to forcibly pushing us there. You will not meet such people as Aunt Sonya, not only in Odessa, but even in Berdichev.
If we talk about the stage, have there been exceptions?
In 1988, in one of the first "Full House" (which then went once a month, and not three times a day on all channels), a Russian person appeared on the Soviet stage for the first time in 70 years. A simple guy from the Altai village. "Muzzle red" was remembered by everyone. The manner of performance, the theme of the texts, the appearance of Mikhail Evdokimov - all this was strikingly different from the traditional Jewish whining on the topic "How bad life is for us here."
But how did he get through with such a "Jewish conspiracy"?
Evdokimov was brought to TV by Regina Dubovitskaya, who is not Jewish. For which many thanks to her. But she also brought Arlazorov out. And also Vetrov and Galtsev ...
Evdokimov wrote his first monologues himself, including "Red Face".
Then the Russian actor also had a Russian author - Evgeny Shestakov. The style of his texts, themes, paradoxical humor are strikingly different from the style of his predecessors. Shestakov uses elements of Russian folklore and absurdity inherent in the Western stage.
Today, Armenians are replacing Jews in Russian humor and, you will laugh, even Russians. Jewish dominance in this genre is over. Fortunately or unfortunately - it's up to you to judge.
