", the Kaveen people themselves believe that this is censorship, the joke was cut out only for this reason. And in 99.9% of cases this happens because it’s just a very stupid, stupid and not funny joke. Whoever needs it, let him look. And the worst thing, Gennady Viktorovich, is the stratum of the population, it is small, which listens to Schubert and watches “Dom-2”. The creepiest people. There is a brilliant phrase: an actor who aims at the tastes of the public may commit suicide.

In 2000, members of the KVN team “New Armenians” toured the United States. Garik Martirosyan is responsible for the repertoire; in the future, he will be one of the main Russian television comedians. Artur Janibekyan is in charge of finances - it is he who will turn stand-up into a business empire. On September 12, 2003, the first Moscow Comedy Club party took place. Kirkorov, Yudashkin and other television stars are present.

A direct consequence of Yukhananov’s heuristic speech (see below) is the author’s special vocabulary and his own terminological system. Well-known words in this system mean something completely different from what they mean in Russian dictionaries, and apocryphal concepts and figures of speech sometimes reinforce directorial decisions that are not obvious at first glance. “Afisha” has compiled a short guide to Yukhananov’s universe based on his articles, public speeches and books.

page 64 → A tall young man with a beard immediately puts you at ease: perhaps because he speaks especially ingratiatingly and softly. “I graduated from Physics and Technology,” says Seattle. - It was Soviet Oxford - a happy university with its own town. I tried to organize my first stand-up party on campus at KVN, asking everyone to recite monologues. The second one was done in Moscow, at Tula, in the Rock Hangar, it was already paid.

20th century: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Lang, Murnau. But we did not ignore other decades; it is pointless to retell the entire history of cinema - for us the common code was the films of Buñuel, Fassbinder, Herzog and many other directors. There was such a sociocultural movement when, within the framework of the complete dominance of the State Cinematography, we did something of our own, but not amateurish, as the system assumed.

There are a lot of rock stars in Russia, but without reservation, it is mainly the generation of the 80s who are accepted into the hall of fame. The unobvious, but unconditional rock hero Nike Borzov will perform the album “Splinter” at the Afisha Picnic. Below is the history of the creation of the recording in the comments of accomplices and eyewitnesses.

Marfa Journal is one of the best fashion and art magazines today, capable of giving iD and Dazed & Confused a run for their money. Afisha asked its creator Alexandra Gordienko about how difficult it is to make an edition almost alone and how to persuade Chloë Sevigny to appear in a photo with a lobster instead of panties. Judging by the name Marfa Journal, you might think that this is a tribute to Russian roots and Russian history - but this is not true, is it?

I'm from Odessa, where everything was always in order with humor. Odessa people don’t joke at all, they just talk like that. This is probably the influence of the southern air, southern latitudes: thanks to them, people are sociable and cheerful. Odessa has KVN, its own comedy shows, and young guys who do stand-up at the local level. Stand-up began to develop not so long ago, but now it already has its own clubs and open microphones. Becoming successful in stand-up requires hard work.

who jokes a lot about his girlfriend; or the short and nimble former Caveman player Alexander Maloy, who often raises his voice for comic effect; or the handsome brunette Vladimir Bukharov (he joked about sharks) with bulging eyes. All of them have been in the profession for three to four years. My name is Grisha Prorokov, I am 25 years old.

THIS IS HERE YOU ARE TRYING TO PLAY WITH THE PLAGUE, AWESOME OWENAT VIEWERS, THEY WOULD HEAR THE JOKES IMMEDIATELY. INEXPERIENCED ERITELS OWEN THIS AND WILL PUSH IT AWAY. Do you know what pisses me off? Nothing really. I just thought it was a cool way to start - here you come, you think there will be something unusual here, and I immediately: “You know what pisses me off?” Not really. I want to tell you about the cart. Also a great start, right?

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky “Monday begins on Saturday” (1964) “Or, say, the monkey Raphael. I saw this myself. True, she doesn’t know how to talk, but she has developed a reflex: green light - banana, red light - electric shock. And everything was fine until the red and green lights were turned on at the same time. Then Rafail behaved the same way as Zhenya, for example. He was terribly offended.

military—hence these pea coats and riding breeches of Boris. We all lived in evicted houses, everyone could dress in whatever they wanted, and our glorious fighting friends, some of whom later did the first fashion shoots in Russia, synthesized a new great style. the shabby neo-academic look: high ceilings, giant mirrors, a marble staircase, on which I presented my graduation performance “War”.

Headphones. Sometimes it's worth taking them out and listening to what people on the streets are saying. By the way, it’s amazing that over the years you haven’t lost touch with the language your fans speak. There's nothing worse than a grown man who tries to copy youth buzzwords but misses the mark by fifteen years with his "dudes" and "bullshit." I try to avoid really specific vocabulary, subcultural slang or buzzwords.

page 73 → club on Novy Arbat,” says Kulikov. — I went out onto the porch with the comedians after the performance, and behind them a bearded man with a glass of beer fell out and said to some stooped guy in a bow tie: “Well, you see, I helped you, I moved you in the direction!” And he nods: “Yes, yes, yes.” It was a heckler who ruined the performance and still proved that he was useful.” Stand-up in Russia is a hopeless activity in which you can very quickly reach the ceiling.

“Unfriend” is being released, a horror film by Levan Gabriadze, the entire action of which takes place on the screen of one computer. Afisha asked the director about the main fears of the digital era. It seems that “Unfriend” should become an absolute hit in online cinemas, especially among Mac users. While watching it on the monitor, I frantically rushed to close the tabs a couple of times. The reflex is triggered. A reflex developed over hours, days, years.