Composition of the KVN team. KVN teams The birth of a club of cheerful and resourceful people

Yuliy Gusman

Now the second person (after the head of Channel One, Konstantin Ernst), sitting on the jury of the Major League, Yuli Solomonovich Gusman, began playing in KVN back in 1966. He and his friends created the “Boys from Baku” team and became its leader and captain. For five years in a row, from 1967 to 1972, the Baku team did not lose a single competition! And in 1970, the team even won the KVN Champion of Champions Cup. Yuliy Solomonovich has a diploma as a psychiatrist, he also graduated from courses for screenwriters and directors at the State Cinema Committee of the USSR, and then returned to his native Azerbaijan, where he worked at a film studio and in musical theater. And in 1988 he moved to Moscow. It was he who was the author and embodiment of the idea of creating the prestigious Nika cinematic award. Vel entertainment shows on TV and radio, staged musicals, and shot the legendary film “Park of the Soviet Period.” And although today Guzman for the most part silent during the filming of KVN, imagine comedy show It’s absolutely impossible without him!

Garik Martirosyan

Surprisingly, one of the brightest players of the end of the last century, Garik Martirosyan, also has medical education, like Yuliy Solomonovich. Moreover, with a similar specialty, Garik is a neuropathologist and psychotherapist. Martirosyan even worked as a doctor for three years! But you can't fool fate. Garik began playing in KVN in 1993 as part of the New Armenians team, and in 1997 he became a champion. In 2005, it was he, together with his fellow countrymen Arthur Tumasyan, Arthur Janibekyan, Artak Gasparyan and Artashes Sargsyan, who created the mega-popular project “ Comedy Club", which had no analogues on Russian TV at that time. In 2007, he hosted two seasons of the “Minute of Glory” project on Channel One, and a year later he became the host of the “ProjectorParisHilton” show along with Alexander Tsekalo, Ivan Urgant and Sergei Svetlakov. Produced and wrote the script for another very successful project- “Our Russia” on TNT. He also hosted the programs “Main Stage” and “Dancing with the Stars” on the Russia channel. And all this time he did not stop acting in the Comedy Club, for which we congratulate him!

Sergey Svetlakov

Because of playing KVN, Svetlakov, a student at the Ural State University of Transport, began to have serious problems with his studies, but they were not going to expel him, because he was the captain of the university team " Ural dumplings" In 2000, “Pelmeni” became champions, Sergei graduated, but did not leave KVN. Svetlakov wrote jokes and scripts for other teams, and in 2005 he began writing for Comedy Club. But Sergei was not eager to be in the “frame”, and appeared on the screen only a couple of years later - in the project “Our Russia”. But he gained real popularity only after the release of the program “ProjectorParisHilton” on Channel One. In 2009, he presented the project “Southern Butovo” on the main button of the country, in which he was a permanent participant along with Vera Brezhneva. Every New Year Sergei appears on cinema screens in one of the main roles in the film “Yolki” by Timur Bekmambetov, this has already become a good tradition for the residents of our country, “Our Russia”...

Pavel Volya

A resident of the glorious city of Penza, Pavel Volya, played in KVN for a short time. His team “Valeon Dasson” played only one game in the Major League - and “flew out” in the 1/8 finals of the 2001 season. Pasha returned to hometown, worked as a radio DJ. After graduating from university, Volya moved to Moscow, where at first he worked as a foreman at a construction site, and later got a job as a screenwriter on RTR in the program “Good Evening” by Igor Ugolnikov. Then he got a job at MuzTV, for some time he even voiced cartoon character Masyanya (it was then a drawing evening show with a popular animated girl). But Pasha, a talented joker, was remembered during the creation of the Comedy Club; he himself came up with the image glamorous scumbag, and it was he who opened the first performance of a stand-up show in one of the capital’s shopping centers. In 2007, Volya began to sing, recorded several compositions that became hits, and then released an album. In 2008, the film “Plato” was released in cinemas, after which Volya became a superstar. After his first success, he played in several more popular films - “Happy New Year, Moms”, “ Love affair at work. Our time”, “Love in the big city-2”, “Bride at any cost”, “The most best movie" Some time ago, Pavel accumulated so much of his own material - monologues and humorous selections - that he began to give solo concerts, having unprecedented success among the public. Volya even traveled half the world on tour - everywhere the Russian public received him with a bang. Last year, together with his wife, Laysan Utyasheva, he launched the “Willpower” project, in which the gymnast is responsible for improving the participants’ bodies, and the comedian is responsible for increasing intellectual vigor and mental activity (according to at least, as it is written on their official website). In general, everything is fine with Pasha!

Mikhail Galustyan

But Galustyan was nevertheless expelled from the Sochi State University of Tourism and Resort Business because of playing in KVN.

Too much time was spent on rehearsals and games, and there was not enough strength or desire to study. Despite this, Alexander Maslyakov invited Galustyan to the Major League, and then he also managed to recover at the university. In 2002, Mikhail became captain of the team, and in 2003 “Burnt by the Sun” became champions. In 2006, he was invited to appear in the project “Our Russia” on TNT. The show “ glacial period"on Channel One and the series "Zaitsev+1". In 2012, Galustyan founded his own film company, which produces videos, corporate and documentaries. Mikhail has already produced 17 films, in which he played not the last roles.

Semyon Slepakov

Captain legendary team“Team of Pyatigorsk” Semyon Slepakov played in KVN from 2000 to 2006. The talented author (and he wrote the scripts for his performances himself) was immediately noticed, so he was one of the creators of the “Our Russia” project, and at the same time worked as a screenwriter in several programs on Channel One. In 2008, he became one of the producers and author of the popular TV series “Univer” and the film “Our Russia. Eggs of Destiny." In 2010, he broke the truth from the stage of the Comedy Club with his songs with a guitar. Producer of the famous TV series “Interns”, “Sashatanya”, “Concerned, or Love of Evil” and the sketch comedy “HB”. I recorded two music album, using his own role as a “tenman” bard.

Natalya Yeprikyan

Natalya Andreevna appeared in KVN as a member of the Megapolis team when she was already 26 years old, which is a very respectable age, because mostly students play here. In 2004, her team became the champion of the Premier League, and a year later - the champion Major League. On next year a small but very ambitious girl creates her own women’s humor club, which she calls “Made in Woman”, and two years later the TNT channel begins to show the show. The program quickly conquers the audience and changes its name to “Comedy Woman”.

Dmitry Brekotkin

Dmitry Brekotkin dedicated 12 whole years of his life to KVN and the Ural Dumplings team in particular. He came there in 1995, but the team became champions only in 2000. Then the artist began to be invited to such popular projects as “Thank God, you came!”, “Show News”, “Yes Youth!”, “ A big difference", "South Butovo". In 2009, he became a participant in the permanent show of the STS channel “Ural Dumplings,” which included many members of the KVN team of the same name. Former KVN players not only appear on TV, but also give big concerts, which are sold out in Moscow.

Svetlana Permyakova

In 1992, Svetlana was a member of the KVN team of Perm State University, but the guys only reached the first quarterfinals of the Major League. After 10 years, Permyakova returned to KVN with the Parma team. Svetka and Zhanka, cheerful fatties in funny hats and bright makeup, were loved and immediately remembered by the audience. In 2005, she became a DJ on Russian Radio, and in 2006 she appeared on TV screens as the host of the “Three Rubles” show on RU.TV. In 2007, it finally breaks through finest hour Permyakova, she begins acting in the TV series “Soldiers” and successfully does this for three years in a row. After filming ended, he received the role of head nurse in the TV series “Interns.” Svetlana also plays in private theater productions.

Top teams KVN forever remained in the hearts of spectators and participants and entered the history of the game as legends. Over the entire existence of the Fun and Resourceful Club, the game has seen many ups and downs, successful and failed performances, as well as sparkling jokes that have become firmly established in the everyday life of KVN fans. Ordinary students were able to provide all this - only their long and hard work on each performance helps them treat everyday problems with humor and slight irony.

The KVN team “Odessa Gentlemen” showed its worth in 1986, when it became the champion of the revived game under the leadership of captain Svyatoslav Pelishenko. After this, the title of champions came to the Odessa gentlemen again in 1990.

In each game, the young people showed excellent results, taking prizes. The unique charm of the participants was borrowed from the 60s, and jokes with a philosophical overtone were an unsurpassed success. Everyone could recognize the Odessa gentlemen by their indispensable attribute - white scarves, which the young people did not part with at any joint performance.

It was the “Odessa Gentlemen” who first proclaimed Alexander Maslyakov the President of the Cheerful and Resourceful Club, and since then this title has never left the game’s host.

Although the team left the KVN championships grid literally in the last century, many “gentlemen” are still known and loved - read about the fates KVN people after KVN.

Ural dumplings

Perhaps " Ural dumplings"can be called the old KVN team, because they finished their last season at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. After playing for five seasons, they were able to achieve the championship title and leave the Club stage in the prime of their glory. This helped the "dumplings" to found own show, which is still popular today.

An interesting fact is that even now, almost 20 years after last performance as a KVN team, participants of the “Ural dumplings” are shown on television and concert venues countries with virtually unchanged original composition. Undoubtedly, this is the only team that was able to maintain its integrity and carry it through such a long period.

Children of Lieutenant Schmidt

During the merger of Tomsk “Lux” and Barnaul “Kaleidoscope” in 1996, no one suspected that the resulting composition “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt” would gain popularity among viewers throughout the country.

Three championship titles, as well as multiple awards in various humorous competitions, made the “children” one of the most titled KVN teams. Like the “Odessa Gentlemen”, the “children” chose elements of clothing that were recognizable to everyone - jackets and caps with black and white stripes. Multi-colored scarves helped them highlight the individuality of each participant. This is exactly how “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt” will forever remain in the hearts of KVN fans.

Burnt out by the sun

For a long time" Burnt out by the sun "were not only included in the list of the best KVN teams, but also headed it! Since their very first performance back in 2000, young people have earned recognition from audiences across the country. And a little later, when Mikhail Galustyan became the leader, “Burnt by the Sun” achieved unprecedented success.

All their jokes were on the verge of what was permitted, which added spice to every game with their participation. The daring humor combined with stunning acting fully met expectations - “Burnt by the Sun” took silver several times, the Summer Cup, and in 2003 they earned the championship.

County town

Perhaps none of the teams can boast of such a history as the “District City”. IN different years“Burnt by the Sun” and the team from St. Petersburg stood in their way. Just a few points separated them from participating in the final three times in a row.

As a result, in 2002, Maslyakov decided to take “Uyezdny Gorod” to the final games, regardless of the results of the current competition. This decision became fateful for Uezdnoy Gorod, because it was this time that they were able to win the championship title.

It is noteworthy that it was the participants of the “County City” who began to use repeating images in all their games, which was later used by other teams.

RUDN University

RUDN University, better known as simply the KVN team of Friendship of Peoples, is still the only one of its kind, because its composition included more than ten young people different nationalities, who performed in a unique symbiosis.

The current composition of the national team has not yet had time to fully express itself, but the classic “RUDN University” showed itself simply brilliantly in 2006, when it managed to win the championship, and also twice at the festival in Jurmala, winning KiViN in gold.

Most of RUDN's jokes are based on its composition - light teasing of representatives of various peoples and nationalities helped the audience to look at their lives from a different perspective, in some places to understand the current way of life of their neighbors, and in others to reconsider their attitude towards them. Despite the fact that many jokes have a political connotation, they are all very sincere and contain good humor, which has become fundamental to the success of RUDN University.

Today, the champion team of RUDN University gathers only for very important events, such as the anniversary of their favorite club, but some participants can be seen on television screens - Pierre Narcisse, Ararat Keshchyan and Sangadzhi Tarbaev - best captain RUDN University

Diesel

Ukrainian KVN team "Diesel" originated from the very beginning of XXI century, but at that time performed only on the territory of Ukraine. Three years later, the young people managed to make their way to Moscow and take part in the Major League.

This is one of the few Ukrainian teams that showed excellent results, although they could not take the championship. One way or another, “Diesel” paved the way for the performances of Ukrainian KVN participants on Moscow stages, which became an excellent help for “Dnepr”, which was able to take the almost unattainable heights of the championship.

Dnepr team

Currently, there is only one KVN team “Dnepr”, the captain of which is Igor Lastochkin. The team was founded in 2005, but true success came to the young people a little later. Best Performances"Dnepr" dates back to 2013, when they became the vice-champion of the Major League.

And, although the Dnepr team failed to become champions, they won the favor of many spectators and fans of the Club. The popularity of the KVN team was brought to them by the duet “Igor and Lena”, which enjoyed undoubted success. The story of a young couple in different life situations gave the audience the opportunity to look at themselves and their loved ones from a humorous side, which is why it was so close to the people.

In the most successful year of 2013, Dnepr completed its performances in the Major League.

Raisa

The Raisa team became a sip for KVN fresh air, while never ceasing to amaze the audience and jury members. The fact is that all the participants of “Raisa” are girls, which in itself is unusual for the Club.

Everyone expected from “Rais” some kind of softness, tenderness and special femininity, and yes, their expectations were justified, but not always. The team's humorous performances were sometimes very far from women's jokes, and the abundance of props was simply amazing.

All this allowed the Rais to break into the Major League and win bronze in 2012.

Megapolis

This is the Moscow team, whose performance on the Club stage was like a hurricane. In 2004, Megapolis presented its performances in the Premier League for the first time. All the numbers were an unsurpassed success, which allowed Megapolis to take part in the finals in the very first season.

A year later, the team already showed its worth in the Major League games, where it shared success with the team from Abkhazia.

Despite its rapid ascent, Megapolis quickly disintegrated and did not consolidate its success. Today, some of its participants still delight us with their humor in such shows as “ProjectorParisHilton” and Comedy Woman.

Team of Kamyzyak region

“Kamyzyaki” began their ascent to the pinnacle of fame in 2010 and still appear on the Club’s stage.

The beginning of the creativity of young people cannot be called very successful, since they paved their way through perseverance, constantly working to correct their mistakes and trying again and again. And, as a result, all their efforts paid off, because in 2015 “Kamyzyaki” were able to become champions of the Major League. In addition, their collection of achievements includes the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which they won in 2013.

Over the seven years of the composition’s existence, “Kamyzyaki” was able to present people with many jokes on all sorts of topics, but most of all, TV viewers remembered humorous numbers on acute social topics, as well as miniatures about the Kamyzyak court. Thanks to these performances, the Kamyzyaki were able to make their way to the top of the Major League.

Union

The team from Tyumen "Union" is definitely the most titled team of the last decade. And this title went to the team members for a reason. Over the five years of their existence, they were able to win many championship cups, including in the Major League, became owners of five different KiViNs and won the Moscow Mayor's Cup.

The feature of the “Union” is a humorous rehash popular songs on actual problems Russian people. In their repertoire you can find political jokes, humorous numbers about the relationship between men and women, and much more.

“Union” is the most popular team today, and no one has yet been able to repeat their success.

The legendary KVN teams are not only sparkling jokes, unsurpassed actor play and original musical and dance numbers. The true legends of the Club are people whom new members look up to, people whose ideas serve as inspiration for new numbers, whose images remain in the hearts of fans of the game.

The presenter and director of one of the most popular television programs, which has become a national game played in Israel, Japan, and Australia, is the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful. President of the International KVN Union and creative association"AMiK".

IN CHAPTER:

Decree of the President of the KVN MS on the ban on plus phonograms.

Decree of the President of the KVN MS “On participation in non-KVN television projects.”

Rules and instructions for the work of official MS KVN leagues

Preface

In KVN, everything happens differently from normal people. Although normal people have their own reasonable traditions. For example, textbooks are republished every year, corrected and supplemented each time.

This book has already gone through three reprints. And this is not the limit, comrades! After all, KVN changes along with our lives, which means the process of improvement is endless!

The most amazing thing is that KVN members continue to read this book, most of which was written six or seven years ago, and even claim that reading this still implies not only historical interest, but also practical benefit.

Our days

Today's KVN is as different from the KVN of 50 years ago as the first television receivers with a lens are different from modern devices with a flat screen, dolby surround sound and other bells and whistles. But still. Where did it all start?

1956

Like a bolt from the blue, the 20th Congress of the CPSU. Stalin's personality cult has been exposed. There are no Sovremennik and Taganka films yet, the songs of Okudzhava and Vysotsky are not yet heard from all the windows, but there is already a breath of freedom in the country. Moscow becomes the capital World Festival youth and students. Young heads are already full of happy hopes, creative projects...

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I started watching KVN fully in 1998 (I’ve seen some numbers before), and gave up in 2010. After that, I made attempts to resume watching it, but at some point I gave up, gave up and never turned it on again. I don't know what caused this. Maybe I watched Monty Python and saw what humor could really be. Maybe the reason is that KVN mainly touches on teenage topics - parties, exams, show business, which have long ceased to be close to me. Maybe the reason for this is adjustment to modern realities (clip thinking, numbers are short, fast, dynamic, you don’t have time to feel them). Or maybe KVN really is in crisis now, who knows. Although I heard “KVN is no longer the same” during the period when I actively watched it and laughed until I cried at the jokes.

However, at least modern KVN It’s no longer close to me, no one takes away from me the old “tube” teams and their magnificent style, humor, charisma. So, these are the top 11 of my favorite KVN teams! Why top 11? Because I stole the idea from the Nostalgia Critic!

A small disclaimer. At the end of each item I will indicate “favorite number”. This does not mean that he is the best or favorite. Rather, it's just very good number, at the same time one of the first that I remembered, and also easily found on YouTube.

11) “Pyramid” (Vladikavkaz)

The main problem of Caucasian teams in KVN is their one-sidedness. Almost everyone, in one way or another, tries to make jokes about the Caucasus. And it would be nice if there were a lot of topics, but no, everything depends on a certain set: long-livers, ladies' men, lawlessness, Lezginka, poor knowledge of the capital's traditions. In these five jokes, for example, “Narts from Abkhazia” emerged as champions. But there were those who were able to go beyond these stereotypes. Off the top of my head I can name two such teams – “New Armenians” and “Pyramid”. The Armenians, of course, will be more famous. They were champions, they created the Comedy Club, they gave Martirosyan to the world. But I tried to remember their best numbers... And you know, for some reason I didn’t remember anything whole. At the Pyramid, I remembered five numbers offhand. To be honest, I like the same 2008 champion “Maximum”, who beat “Pyramid” in the final, a little more. But I didn’t include it in the top purely out of respect for the Ossetians, who managed to joke not only about how a hundred-year-old grandfather cares for a girl, while his grandson, released from prison, uses his cell phone as a shoehorn, and at the end everyone dances lezginka.
Favorite number:"Clan Bolvano"

10) “Fedor Dvinyatin” (Moscow – Stupino)

And here many people will have a question: I confessed my love to KVN at the turn of the century, and then suddenly I include THIS in the top? Let me explain. "Fyodor Dvinyatin", in my opinion, were a distorting mirror of the era in which they played. In the second half of the 2000s, jokes about “substances”, about glamour, social life, parties. “Fyodor Dvinyatin” brought these themes to the point of absurdity. He simply did not care about all the norms of morality and decency, laughed at them and really forced himself to hate. It is not for nothing that one of the most high-profile scandals Major League of KVN, when Yuliy Gusman smashed them to smithereens parody of Valery Leontiev. These guys, with their wild behavior, laughed at KVN, at the audience, at the jury. And that's great!
Favorite number:"Pushkin's Nannies"

9) “Megapolis” (Moscow)

I don’t know who first came up with the concept of “the team captain comes out and spreads rot on everyone,” but “Megapolis” was the first to take it to the absolute level. This idea did not resonate with many. I admit, at first I didn’t like it either. It was hard to watch people hate each other, even if only as a joke. But if you do not pay attention to this controversial idea, then you can only admire Megapolis. Their numbers constantly contained references to classical literature and music. One of their first memorable numbers - poet-fabulist– this is generally something unimaginable. The team tore up the hall not with the fables themselves, but with their names or first lines (“one day a whale was walking along the shore. Suddenly, a camel rose from the water in amber spray”). “Megapolis,” in my opinion, was the last echo of the good old KVN - with long solid numbers and brilliant theatrical acting, and not “jumped out - joked - ran away - and all to the music.”
Favorite number:"Hussar Ballad"

8) BSU (Minsk)

The only two-time KVN champion in my era. This team was memorable because it did not have any particular style. That is, Belarusians went out not only for Lukashenko and potatoes. They took it with humor. However, none of their iconic numbers were similar to the other. Yes, in 2001 they had Galygin with parodies of the aforementioned “Alexander Khrigorievich”, but at the same time the team did not slide into endless self-repetitions. And BSU were the only ones who showed the real KVN on stage... porn film! My generation will understand what I mean. This is even more so free time, seemed like a very bold move.
Favorite number:"Concert "Time Machine"

7) “Prima” (Kursk)

Tell me, KVN fans, what is the first association you have when you name this team? Of course, pictures. Illustrated humor was their specialty, their know-how; many generally consider it almost their invention, although, of course, they joked like that back in the sixties. And yes, their rooms were simply magnificent. At the same time, you never know where, when and on what topic they will produce a masterpiece. In principle, there is no point in talking about their drawings - all this is easily found on the Internet. But when talking about “Prima”, many miss their other feature, which is atypical for their generation. Just pay attention to their humor outside of the pictures: parliamentary debates, housing and communal services reform, “visiting the Erokhins,” apartment renovations, musical "Loaders"... The team joked about household topics, close not to Muscovites, but to ordinary provincial Russians. Didn't hesitate to screw it into your room political satire. It’s a pity that they were remembered primarily for the pictures, and secondly for the poems. Yes, they even often used songs that some of the modern generation had not even heard. Take, for example, the remake of “My Darling” about a trip to Turkey.
Favorite number: but there will be no pictures for you! "Glue the Homewrecker"

6) DasISTfak’t (Yaroslavl)

The most unknown team in this selection. These guys spent only two seasons on television, and in the Premier League, they quietly disappeared and remained generally misunderstood. And this is easily explained - jokes about Zhanna Friske are much more understandable to the average TV viewer than, for example, "Hunting Martens with a Boomerang". It seems to me that if Sergei Kuryokhin played in KVN, his team would be somewhat reminiscent of “DasISTfak’t”. It was even clear from the reaction of the audience that sometimes they simply didn’t understand what the guys were doing on stage. But alas, the main reason that these guys were never allowed into the tower was not their non-standard humor. And it’s not even a dissonant name (at first they were called “Das Istfak”, then they were forced to add the letter “t”). main reason– in topics for humor. Their very first speech contained the phrase “There are all these “Ours”, “Young Guard”, everyone has eyes worth five kopecks, throw grain at them - they will peck.” I don’t even understand how they were allowed on TV with such killer humor during the times of real freedom of speech. Unfortunately, over the years, KVN has been increasingly used as a political platform for instilling in young people the “correct” ideology and the “correct” image of enemies. And rare social humor like remake "I want to break free" looks very inappropriate, like an attempt to show: “Look, people, we have freedom of speech!” Although in fact... but let's not talk about sad things.
Favorite number:“While everyone is at home” in Czech”

5) “LUNA” (Chelyabinsk)

For many teams, it happens like this: you watch five numbers, memorize two hundred jokes, and then go around and quote them. With “LUNA” the situation was somewhat different. Offhand, I only remembered two separate jokes from them, but one of them has long since become popular. First - “birch tree, I would like as many buds as you have”. Well, and the second is the legendary phrase about the film (no matter which): “The book is better. And any". “LUNA” was different – the integrity of the number. No KVN team of the 21st century has ever had so many integral numbers, broken not into several pieces, but consistent with one theme. Take, for example, my favorite - "Love Formula". Actually there goes full retelling Soviet comedy, and not yet the most famous one (not “The Diamond Arm”, not “Ivan Vasilyevich”). The team on stage in STEM and “Homework” was a real theatrical production, albeit compressed by time frames. Set up a lot good jokes– this, of course, is not easy. But making a lot of good jokes on one topic is already aerobatics.
Favorite number:“Dowry” (although I love “Formula of Love” most of all)

4) Pyatigorsk team

There were and, for sure, there are many teams in KVN that want to look like simple guys from the provinces. But alas, another joke about how Nikolai Baskov rode in the elevator all day because there was a mirror reveals that the guys, or at least their authors, are the most metropolitan citizens. The Pyatigorsk people were real provincials. From the very first performance, it seemed that they saw KVN somewhere at the dawn of the nineties, and then lightning struck their only television in the village. Yes, they already had a lot of humor about modern realities, but sometimes it seemed that they were reluctant to joke about these topics. They did much better in numbers about the Middle Ages, Rural Romance, Chapaev... In general, they did about the same thing as “MOON”, but at the same time they had a couple of advantages over their Ural comrades. Firstly, they used even less popular films for their numbers. Secondly, their humor was sometimes so absurd that you didn’t immediately understand that they were joking like that, and you sat there, waiting for the joke to end. And then it dawns on you... Well, another important fact is that Pyatigorsk was very good in warm-ups. And this, as you understand, is the most difficult KVN competition.
Favorite number:"New Year" (with "Bohemian Rhapsody")

3) “Ural dumplings” (Ekaterinburg)

We won’t talk about what “Pelmeni” is doing on the STS channel - why talk about sad things? In general, personally, I only saw Pelmeni’s championship season in 2000. And from it I only remember “Can’t touch this” on improvised instruments, as well as the enchanting “Delchev Somersault”. But the main thing is what they did after leaving the “tower”. Most of the Anniversary games and the short-lived project “KVN. Outside the game” they stayed on the numbers of “Pelmeni”. Plus their constant performances at Sochi festivals, including 2003, when they gave us, perhaps, best number KVN of the last 15 years (I think you understand what are we talking about). Their humor was based on absurdity and unexpected breaking of the fourth wall, and before it became mainstream. One day I caught myself thinking that when constructing jokes, they reminded me very much of Monty Python. And then I found out that “Dumplings” was actually inspired by “Monty Python”! And most importantly, they skillfully used the image of an inadequate person on the team (Dima Sokolov). That is, in KVN, many build almost all their humor, all their performances around a person who is, as it were, “not of this world.” “Pelmeni” used Sokolov as a kind of joker when it was necessary to finish off the audience, which was already dying of laughter.
Favorite number:“Show “Doors” (“Gladiolus” everyone has already seen a hundred times)

2) Team of St. Petersburg

The St. Petersburg team is a unique phenomenon in KVN. Perhaps so strong people's love not a single team that did not become a champion received it. St. Petersburg became the first for many KVN fans of my age true love. They took me with some kind of lightness, liveliness of humor. And they looked very youthful. While others came out in the same greetings and simply joked “in line,” these guys jumped and ran around the stage, simply blowing your mind with incredibly cool humor. They combined the lightness of modern humor with St. Petersburg intellectuality. Their humor showed respect for the viewer - just look at their number about Bob Marley's visit to the USSR. Almost no one showed such musical numbers in KVN. Except for one more team (more on them later). And how they dressed! Look - most KVN teams either wear uniforms of the same style, or players dress in certain images (for example, “County City”). And here they went on stage as if they had just come out of the dressing room and forgot to change clothes.
In 2005, Peter suddenly decided to return, although he was clearly no longer attracted to young people. And they returned completely different. They had uniforms (beige jackets), and humor was no longer so light and fast. They again, as at the turn of the century, seemed anachronistic. But anachronistic in the other direction. Have they gotten worse? No. They just changed their style and became different. These were already respectable men and a woman with more respectable humor. But they still did not become champions. In general, that season finally convinced me that KVN is won not by the team that is better, but by the one that “needs.” Twice - in 1999 and 2002, St. Petersburg lost in the finals to teams that should not have made it to these finals. First, they defeated BSU in the semifinals, but by Maslyakov’s decision, the Belarusians also advanced to the finals, where they performed objectively better than anyone else. Then absolutely the same story happened with “ County town"(although their advantage was no longer so obvious). And in 2005, St. Petersburg fell behind the winners by 0.1 points in the semifinals. 0.1!!! (in words) One tenth! In this situation, I won’t even remind you that those estimates were clearly underestimated. Maslyakov said in a cold voice that “the numbers say the following...”, and Peter left KVN forever.
Favorite number:"Bad Radio"

1) “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt” (Tomsk)

The Pyatigorsk national team on stage looked like a kind of “greetings from the past.” Peter looked ahead of his time. “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt” is a team out of time. Their numbers (except for the realities of the era) would have looked great in the eighties and look great now. Tomsk residents were not pioneers of any genre or symbols of any era. They were just showing off humor highest quality. As they say, they came out and tore the hall apart. At the same time, it made no difference to them in which competition they did it - “homework” or “warm-up”. I have never seen a single team that was so cool in the warm-up. At the same time, their main trick was to run out to answer before the required time had expired - the resourcefulness of Grigory Malygin (R.I.P.) and the company in those years was simply amazing. And DLSH also had incredibly cool singers. There is a team from RUDN University that showed off their ability to sing. For "Children" this was a given. At the same time, having Gasaev and Vince on the team, they could not worry about the lyrics at all, but simply take the audience with bare hands through powerful voices. At the same time, they not only made hilarious alterations ( “how disgusting it is in Russia in the morning”), but the song performance was also turned into small performance.
But the most important contribution of “Children” to KVN, and indeed to the history of our country, was the ability to easily joke about the situation that developed in Russia in those years. The crisis, the devastation, the always drunken president, the closure of NTV - all these topics were easily turned into a joke by DLSH, teasing the current government, but at the same time leaving in the hearts of people the hope that everything would eventually settle down, everything would be fine. And as confirmation - their indispensable final songs with a rural-folk slant. In modern KVN, in order to raise the spirit of patriotism, for some reason it is considered necessary to throw a stone at America. The “Schmidts” made the Russian soul open up and feel proud of itself without pseudo-pathetic phrases, without Zadornov’s “Russian savvy”. And it was incredibly cool!
I have already written a lot about “DLSh”, but I have to highlight one more paragraph about “Siberian Siberians”. In 2001, Tomsk residents were almost in full force performed under a new name and new registration. Yes, they received reinforcements from the NSU team, but still the same people set the tone. With the only exception - Alexander Pushnoy. And that year they seemed to have decided not to fight for the championship, but to show the people what they themselves liked. Just think about it: in 2001, a parody of "PINK FLOYD". And not even on Another brick in the wall, but on Shine on your crazy diamond! Pushnoy was a pioneer of the rock-KVN style. It’s a pity that this style has largely ended at Pushnoye.
Favorite number: « Lucky case»

P.S. Just in case, let me remind you: this top is purely my subjective opinion. Be sure to write yours in the comments. Which KVN teams did you love and love? Is KVN “cake” now? If not, when do you think it became “not a cake”? In general, we are waiting!

November 8th is International KVN Day. Exactly 50 years ago, in 1961, the first episode of the KVN program was aired - a game that was and to this day remains a second job and calling for KVN players. But the most important thing is that the legendary program has always been the starting point for many Russian figures culture and show business.

"Veterans" of KVN

One of those for whom KVN became a start in life was Gennady Khazanov. Before appearing on the stage of the club of cheerful and resourceful people, Khazanov tried to enter several theater universities Moscow, but to no avail. Having entered the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering, Khazanov did not say goodbye to his dream of the stage and took part in student amateur performances, and later began playing in the KVN MISS team.

Khazanov appeared on stage with the famous monologue of a student at a culinary college. The trusting “little man,” whose innocence often turned into worldly wisdom, instantly became a favorite of the public.

Khazanov never managed to enter the Moscow Art Theater School and the Shchukin School. Only on his second attempt was he accepted into the State School of Circus and Variety Arts, where his teacher was one of the leading actresses of the Moscow Theater of Satire, Nadezhda Ivanovna Slonova. A few years later, Khazanov became one of the most popular domestic artists and the main director of the Variety Theater.

Yuliy Gusman was also at the origins legendary game. He was captain of the Boys from Baku team from 1964 to 1971.

Guzman is considered one of the brightest KVN players of the 60s. He was the first to introduce “organization” into KVN - his team always performed in the same uniform. On the KVN stage, Yuliy Solomonovich was remembered as the author and performer of the stunts “Tearing off the mustache,” “Removing the beard,” and the phrase “I’m like water off Guzman!”

During his participation in KVN, he managed to graduate from the Medical Institute. Nariman Narimanov, graduate school and write a dissertation. However, Guzman never became a doctor.

But he became a director, making several films and staging many performances, including in America, Japan and China.

A new generation of cheerful and resourceful

After closing in 1971, KVN was revived only in 1986.

With the words of the new anthem “We are starting KVN,” the game began a new chapter in its history. The first new KVN champion was the team from Odessa State University.

In total, more than a hundred teams played in the major league.

Many KVN participants, after finishing their playing careers, became popular TV presenters, actors, writers, screenwriters, etc.

For example, in the late 90s, former KVN players created the popular program “O.S.P.”, and among the authors of the idea was the champion of the first KVN women’s team “Only Girls in Jazz” Tatyana Lazareva.

Another “graduate” of KVN, Elena Hanga, subsequently became a popular TV presenter of the sensational programs “About This” and “The Domino Principle”.

She was one of the first to manage to move KVN beyond the domestic airwaves.

So, Hanga played for the World team at the Festival in Israel. And together with former players of the first line-up of the KVN team, she opened a Russian comedy club in New York.

Valdis Pelsh has been on the jury of the KVN Major League more than once.

One of the founders of the "Accident" group himself once played in a student theater, and then in the KVN team of Moscow State University. Viewers remembered Pelsh in the image of a Latvian who does not know Russian well.

In one of the scenes, he addressed Alexey Kortnev (colleague in the group “Accident” and KVN) with the words: “As my close-minded friend Lesha said...”

When Pelsh came to the “Guess the Melody” program, he decided to put an end to old joke and speak without accents. But the audience was told that in fact the presenter speaks with a wild accent, it’s just that the ViD television company bought for him a special expensive device that muffles the accent. Many took this joke at face value.

Contemporaries of humor

The whole country knows Mikhail Galustyan by unique image a little girl named Gadya Petrovich Khrenova. While studying at a medical school with a degree in international-class obstetrician, he played in the Burnt by the Sun team. Later he entered Sochi State University Tourism and Resort Business at the socio-pedagogical faculty, specializing in “teacher of history and law”. However, he was soon expelled for poor attendance, since the team, which rapidly gained popularity, gave three performances a day.

KVN's career helped Galustyan become a sought-after actor, who easily plays the roles of guest workers, security guards, football coaches and other “folk” heroes.

Semyon Slepakov, playing for the Pyatigorsk National Team, also became a real star modern KVN. The matter was not limited to one KVN cup. Now Slepakov is a successful producer and screenwriter. He works on such television shows as “Comedy Club”, “Our Russia”. Since 2010, the former KVN player became the producer of the series “Interns”, and since 2011 - the series “Univer”.

The material was prepared based on information from open sources