Russian Comedians - Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Yuri Nikulin, Leonid Utyosov, Yevgeny Morgunov, Mikhail Yevdokimov, Yevgeny Petrosyan (Paperback)

Chapters: Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Yuri Nikulin, Leonid Utyosov, Yevgeny Morgunov, Mikhail Yevdokimov, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Gennady Khazanov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (Russian: born July 21, 1948 in Jrmala, Latvian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer. Zadornov is particularly famous for his satirical comparisons of Russians and nationals of other countries, especially Americans. He has rescinded his visa to the United States as a protest to the American athletes' flag-waving behavior at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics. Zadornov was born in an artistic family, his father Nikolai Zadornov was a notable writer from Riga. Mikhail Zadornov graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, however, in the early 1980s he started a career as a humorist instead of an engineer. He has also been known to make fun of any CIS (former Soviet) country seeking a friendly relationship with the west, but seems to have no hard feelings against them. While criticizing heavily American culture and its influence on the life in modern Russia, Zadornov commended Dan Brown for getting the public interested in Israel, the Vatican, Leonardo da Vinci and art history. (That praise aside, Zadornov assessed the literary value of Brown's books as "," which translates into something like "compositions of a student at a very mediocre middle-school"; pun intended as means both "middle (grade)" and "mediocre.") ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1587599