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The first time the Hall of Russia laughed at about the third minute of the Saturday concert. “We have a large program for two and a half hours: are you in a hurry anywhere?” Evgeny Petrosyan addressed to his program “With great greetings!”. “We can stay until Thursday!” They shouted from the gallery. “What, nowhere to spend the night?” - retorted Petrosyan. Under the first “haha” my and my laughing neighbor rang the phones, and we left the hall. “Yes, I'm at the concert,” a neighbor said in a phone, a woman of about thirty. “No, that you are not in Petrosyan!”

Even paying 800 rubles. For the ticket, the woman was embarrassed to admit that she was just quite sincere, along with the entire hall for 2500 seats, laughed as a simple joke. Although someone, it would seem, be shy: every third average Russian on weekends laughs like bikes-where is it fresher, and somewhere surge,-after at home by the TV. The first humorous program is aired on 6.10 of Saturday morning, and in two weekends six channels of the country are issued in a total of more than 14 hours of continuous “jokes of humor”. And on December 31, spectators of two federal channels - first and “Russia” - can laugh (with small breaks) for almost 12 hours: first, from 6 in the morning to half past four, turning on the first button, and from 7 to midnight, I am entered. A second after the end of the final issue of the “crooked mirror” Evgeny Petrosyan, the president with the New Year's appeal came on the air. True, the three minutes of Putin’s performances - the most popular television program of the year - gathered less spectators at the screens than semi -dry humorin. But it seems that the joke has gone too far: the last three years, the ratings of traditionally popular humorous programs have been reduced, and new genres are still vaccinated.

The first release of KVN was shot in 1961. The Angryus was the seventeenth year. In January, the “Smokhopanorama” will be 12 years old: when the first issue went on the air, the Muscovite Kristina Zarubina was a year. Now this pretty lively girl is possible, one of the most faithful fans of the work of Yevgeny Petrosyan and his theater “Crooked Mirror”. A year ago, Christina won the jokes of the jokes on the official website of the comedian and received a prize -output for all Petrosyan concerts in Moscow. “It was important not only the quality of the jokes sent, but also their number,” says Christina. “I sent about 10 pieces per day, and so for a whole year, except for those three months when my computer did not work.” What kind of anecdote “finished off” Evgeny Petrosyan, who headed the jury of the competition, Christina does not begin to say. But “his” jokes among those that Petrosyan read at concerts immediately find out: “There were two or three at this concert. For example, about a goat: a car leaves for a turn, a woman driving out, she lends out the window and shouts to the oncoming man-male driver: “Goat!”. “Bitch!” The man answers, leaves for a turn and crashes into a goat. ” Retelling this joke for me, Christina does not laugh, and an hour ago, in the hall, as she says, she laughed. She laughs, and very contagious, even knowing three quarters of any concert program Petrosyan by heart. “When someone has a bad mood in the classroom, they ask me to tell a joke, and I try to remember the joke, that the person is better,” says Christina. “Now they often ask to joke, but I don’t bother me.” “Kristina [after the victory at the jokes of jokes] is very popular in school, even in high school,” says her classmate Anya. Christina called her “to Petrosyan” on the occasion of an anino birthday - this is her gift to her friend. Anya liked it.

Almost all the concerts of the “crooked mirror” and “solo” Petrosyan has Christina on video cassettes, but she watches them infrequently, because “lately there is little time.” She plays at the school theater, draws “cartoons”, plays the guitar and is going to “try the piano”. In addition, she is one of the creators of the only unofficial site of fans of the Krivoy Mirror, which posted 9 small interviews taken by Kristina (on the site of it - a Christ) from the artists of the theater. “These are pleasant, smart people, I really liked to communicate with them,” Christina says. “And those who say that their jokes are stupid or unfinished,“ they didn’t either see the performances, or they have no sense of humor, it seems to me. ”

To reproach modern comedians in a bad cousin is also in some way of a bad taste, says Lyudmila Tikhvinskaya, doctor of art history, professor, founder of the new pop laboratory in GITIS. “This is already a banality, a common place,” she says. “Extra has never been a high genre, it is a lower culture, a layer between art and life. She reacts very sensitively to life, she is her reflection. ” Therefore, the classic genre of Soviet pop, called neutrally “conversational”, built on the game with the Soviet system and front, disappeared along with the USSR. It is logical that now the “new Russian grandmothers” are more popular than Zhvanetsky, Professor Tikhvinskaya is sure. In the heroes of the "grandmothers", the characters of Elena Stepanenko and Petrosyan, the new viewer sees himself - and rejoices, learning. “Today, the dominant social type is a meant. These are his heroes. This is his monologues, ”Tikhvinskaya says.“ The Soviet man was strangled “by high art”, and now he takes revenge, defending his right to be a simple bourgeoisie. ”

Laughter is a pleasure, and a simple life philosophy is increasingly focusing on getting joy from life: live today, enjoy right now, the founder of the most popular humorous site of Runet “Anecdotes from Russia” (Anekdot.ru) Dima Werner. Laughter liberates Werner: “Be yourself. Do not think whether it is good or bad. Funny? Laugh in health. Not funny? And we still have, and more, and still another ... ”Laughter is the liberation from prohibitions, from shame and moral restrictions, he believes, and concerts are also liberation from the dictatorship of“ good taste ”. On his website, Dima publishes absolutely all the jokes sent without any editorial censorship: for “jokes from Russia” there is neither “bad” nor “good” taste. “Humor is angry, insulting, humiliating others. They say that you can’t laugh at something, this is holy-but the experience of the site without censorship showed that they laugh at absolutely all, ”says Werner. He has repeatedly received requests to remove this or that joke from the site - newly, for example, the editor of the Israeli portal asked to take a joke about the Holocaust. But the most cynical jokes remain in the public domain: Anekdot.ru considers himself an academic assembly. And they laugh at them too. And they laugh “quite worthy”, according to Werner, people, albeit with a reservation, “it’s a shame to admit, but it is really ridiculous.”

In November 2005, Anekdot.ru spent 10 years. During this time, Werner, according to his own estimates, read 208 749 jokes and 102,769 stories from life. On the day of the anniversary of “Jupeceles from Russia”, readers chose a joke of the decade. Tales with the mention of the words “x ... th”, “x ... rnya” and Garika Marikyana reached the final. But according to the results of the popular vote, the joke was won about Andrei Platonov - also, however, not without “x ... I”.

But no matter how many mass humor reproaches in abuse of jokes below the belt, “our person cannot joke publicly about only one ass,” says Lyudmila Tikhvinskaya. She was one of the ideologists of the first Stand-Upcomedy festival, which was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in December 2004. This genre of relaxed exchange of comedian replicas with the hall was largely based on the “bodily” topic, which was borrowed from the English-speaking culture, the art critic explains. But the festival showed that “this is not ours: we are not ready for Stand-upcomedy,” Tikhvinskaya states not without regret. It is a pity, of course, not missed “asses”: on the Stand-wrapped up as if unstable, maybe not a high, but honest genre. But it turned out "strained, even with a wonderful gifted number of Fomenko." In addition, “our man is not used to it, freely, to speak with the public. It is possible that he simply has nothing to say, ”Tikhvinskaya thinks. Nevertheless, the first program of the domestic Stand-upcomedy has already appeared on the body of decimeter TNT, however, the share of the spectators of “ComedyClub” is five times less than KVN.

Dima Werner believes that it is necessary to hope not for Stand-up, but for virtual humor: “On our site they say that Petrosyan and Zadornov-jokes for those who do not have a computer: the same jokes on the Internet can be read much earlier than they are told on TV. And if the comedian has something to say, the Internet will give him the opportunity to enter the stage, and everything ridiculous instantly spreads on the network and becomes widely known. ” The comedians themselves know what treasures can be found on the Web, and Werner, who rarely visits at concerts of humorists, nevertheless very often hears there stories and jokes, already familiar to him on his own site ... without mentioning the source, of course.

Another thing is that now there are not so many torn to humorists: even from the course of Gennady Khazanov, as the dean of the faculty of pop art of GITIS Anna Lonekova recalls, “it seems, only one“ phrasebook ”came out! Even Khazanov! This is a dying genre. ” Kristina Zarubina, a fan of Yevgeny Petrosyan, will try to save the domestic stage. She wants to become - and this is quite seriously - a young man.