''Comedy Club'' is a Russian

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...

TV show broadcast by the Russian

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channel since January, 2001. Long-time residents of the club are

Garik Martirosyan Garik Yurievich Martirosyan (, ; born February 13, 1974) is a Russia-based Armenian entertainer, comedian, TV host, actor and singer. He is the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel TNT. He was also on ...

, Timur Batrutdinov, Garik Kharlamov,

Pavel Volya Pavel Volya (; born 14 March 1979) is a Russian TV host, actor and singer. A former ''KVN'' player, he first came to prominence as the "resident" of the Russian ''Comedy Club Russia, Comedy Club'' show, co-produced by Garik Martirosyan and ai ...

, Alexandr Revva, Marina Kravets and others. The show host is Garik Martirosyan. ''Comedy Club'' headquarters is located in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

United URS Comedy ''Comedy Club'' has developed spin offs in

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

('' Real Comedy''),

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

(''Comedy Club Belarus''),

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

(''Comedy Club Peter-style''),

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

(''Comedy Club Gorky Style''),

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

(''Comedy Club Rostov-style''). The residents of the developed branches perform regularly in Moscow and some like "Elvis" from the Peter-style, the "Chekhov duet" from Ukraine are even shown on TNT channel. On April 29, 2007 in ''Comedy Club'' Moscow an African - Lubinda from the Rostov-style debuted signaling the internationalizing of ''Comedy Club''.

Residents

Current

- represents "residents" of the ''Comedy Club''. In 2010-2015 he was the leading show. Since 2005. *

- the current show host, performances in the genre Stand Up, miniatures, improvisation (usually in the course of communication with celebrities present in the hall). Since 2005. * Garik Kharlamov - since March 14, 2015 co-host

in conversation with the invited stars, appears in miniatures, most often together with

Timur Batrutdinov ''Comedy Club'' is a Russian stand-up comedy TV show broadcast by the Russian TNT channel since January, 2001. Long-time residents of the club are Garik Martirosyan, Timur Batrutdinov, Garik Kharlamov, Pavel Volya, Alexandr Revva, Marina Kravet ...

- miniatures (often with Garik Kharlamov). From January 16 to March 7, 2015, was co-host Will in a conversation with the stars. Characters: candidate for deputy Yegor Batrudov, Valery Alevdinovich Babushkin. Since 2005. *

Aleksandr Revva Aleksandr Vladimirovich Revva (; ; born 10 September 1974), better known by his stage name Arthur Pirozhkov (), is a Russian stand-up comedian, TV host and voice actor of Ukrainian origin. A former KVN player, in 2006 Revva became a "resident" ...

- miniatures. Characters: Arthur Pirozhkov, Don Digidon, grandmother, Super Stas, magician-illusionist. From 2005 to 2013, he returned to the program in 2015. * Alexander Nezlobin - his own humorous monologue, sometimes miniatures. Also in 2010 he led the column "Good evening, Mars!" With Igor Meerson. Since September 13, 2006. * Dmitry "Lusyok" Sorokin, Zurab Matua and Andrey Averin - musical sketches, musical experiments, former members of the group "Lips." Sorokin since 2005, Matua and Averin - since 2007. * Marina Kravets - miniatures, usually with Andrei Averin, Zurab Matua and Dmitry Sorokin, as well as with other members of the Comedy Club. Since the year 2009. * Dmitry Grachov - miniatures, mostly parodies Vladimir Putin. Usually with Dmitry Sorokin, Zurab Matua, Andrey Averin, Garik Martirosyan, Garik Kharlamov and Timur Batrutdinov. Since 2010. * Sergey Gorelikov ("Serge Gorely") is a member of the group "United Sexy Boys" (under the pseudonym of Turbo). From 2010 to 2015 and from 2017 leads the rubric "Preliminary caresses". Since May 14, 2010. *

Mikhail Galustyan Nshan Sergeyevich Galustyan (, ; born October 25, 1979), known professionally as Mikhail Galustyan () is a Russian-Armenian showman, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Mikhail Galustyan was also a former participant in KVN and a show called ' ...

- miniatures. Appears mainly in special issues as a guest. Since 2010. *

Sergey Mokhnachev Sergey may refer to: * Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name) * Sergey, Switzerland Sergey is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Sergey is f ...

("Sergey Bessmertny") - resident in 2006-2011. * Demis Karibidis and Andrey Skorokhod - miniatures. Also in 2013, Karibov led his rubric "Foreign Languages". Karibov - since March 2011, Skorokhod - since 2013. * The trio "Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev" (Ilya Sobolev, Anton "Banderas" Ivanov and Alexei "Smirnyaga" Smirnov) - miniatures. Former members of the "lethal league". Since November 2013. * Duet "YES!" (Mahmud Huseynov and Magomed Murtazaliev) are miniatures. Winners of ''Comedy Battle''. Since December 2013. * Ivan Pyshnenko and Dmitry Kozhoma - miniatures, usually with Marina Kravets, Andrei Skorokhod and Demis Karibidis. Since March, 2014. * Andrey Beburishvili - performances in the genre Stand Up. Winner of ''Comedy Battle''. Since December 2014. * Yevgeny "Zhenya" Sinyakov - performances in the genre Stand up with a screen. Participant of ''Comedy Battle''. Since December 2015. * The trio "The Crisis of Genre" (Igor "Gar" Dmitriev, Vasily Zinin, Nikolai Tereshchenko) - miniatures. Participants of the Comedy Battle. Since December 2015. * The trio "Tommy Lee Jones" (Arthur Dadashev, Islam Kantayev, Ibrahim Baisagurov) - miniatures. Winners of ''Comedy Battle''. Since December 2015.

Groups

* "Lips" is a singing merry song folk group, founded in 2007 by Timur Batrutdinov, Roman Yunusov, Havre, Garik Kharlamov, Andrei Averin, Dmitry Sorokin and other residents. * "Jukebox" - Acted in the ''Comedy Club'' in 2008, 2010 and 2015. * "United Sexy Boyz" (abbreviated to "USB") is a band that has been parodying variety music since 2010. The stage image is a group "banned on all TV and radio channels of Russia", allegedly recording an album a week and making clips to it. Also from 2014, besides clips, parody known things like full-length films, television series, commercials, cartoons, fragments of news releases and plots of various TV channels, entries in Internet blogs, video and computer games begin to parody. Clips begin with the phrase Dyushi Metelkin "USB here. Here everything: Nikita, Stas, Gena, Turbo and Dyusha Metolkin. " Members of the group: Nikita (Konstantin Malasayev) - every phrase begins with the words: "And I'm Nikita ...", followed by a joke, usually on a subway / homosexual topic. Gena (Dmitry Vyushkin) - always silent. Stas (Andrey Shelkov) - every phrase begins with the words: "Let me say, yeah ...". Turbo (Sergey Gorelikov) - each phrase begins with the words "Listen, Host!", Often comparing Martirosyan / Volya / Kharlamov with incompatible things and phenomena. Dyusha Metelkin (Andrey Minin) is the leader of the group. Operates style of clothes and behavior of foreign rap artists. * "The Nest Band." The main part of the group includes: Alexander Nezlobin, Igor "Elvis" Meerson, Marina Kravets, Alexei Smirnov. It was founded in 2010.

Production

;Film crew Directed by Roman Novikov (2010 – present).Опыт ТНТ: Как из обычной презентации для рекламодателей сделать шоу, которое каждый год ждет весь рынок?
Кино Рамблер (in Russian). ;Location From 2005 to 2017, the filming of the Comedy Club took place at the Golden Palace. In September 2017, the project moved to the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall, and only test parties remained in the Golden Palace. ;Producers Alexey Lyaporov, Alexey Poymanov, Ilya Romanko, Sergey Mokhnachev.

(2005-2017), Tash Sargsyan (2003-2005).

References

External links

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