Comedian Uncle Vitya. Who is Uncle Vitya? Character or real person? Uncle Vitya and Comedy Battle

Many people wonder Uncle Vitya from Comedy Battle- who is this? An employee on the set or a participant in the project? We will talk about this later in the article.

Uncle Vitya from the “Slaughter League” - who is he?

There are artists who are easy to forget, but there are also creative personalities who can remain in the memory forever. They are recognized by their voice, by their manner of speaking and by their appearance. This is what Uncle Vitya is. Once upon a time, this funny man modestly led performances and celebrations in his city, but his life changed a lot after he got into the “Slaughter League” project. This is a humorous program on TNT, the purpose of which is to select participants with the best humorous abilities.

When a mysterious man in baggy clothes appeared on stage, no one took him seriously. But his talent made all the spectators laugh. Many still remember his jokes and unusual manner of speaking. Naturally, with such talent, Uncle Vitya was able to eliminate all rivals and become the favorite of this show. “Killer League” became a kind of starting point for this participant; after the end of the project, he received many offers of cooperation, including from representatives of the TNT television channel.

The artist’s popularity is due to the fact that his jokes made everyone laugh, from the younger generation to older people.

Several years have passed since the day when this performance ended, but still all the organizers do not know who exactly is hiding under the mask of this person. Perhaps this is a young guy pretending to be an old man or a nice grandfather with a great sense of humor. This man raised many questions among the audience, and more and more reviews about him, both positive and negative, appeared. For some, this humor seems successful, but others think that this person has no place in youth shows.

Uncle Vitya and the project “Laughter without Rules”

The magnificent participant did not stop at one performance; his next stage was the “Laughter without Rules” project. The comedian appeared on the big stage wearing glasses and a checkered shirt. He immediately aroused great sympathy among the girls who sat on the jury. He presented each performance on this project in the form of a dialogue with the judges. When he saw that Ksenia Borodina was sitting in this place, he unobtrusively asked her about the show and her choice of shoes.

Despite the fact that Uncle Vitya at that time did not behave very culturedly and was a little embittered, the audience still reacted cheerfully to his every joke.

This artist did not ignore the other members of the jury. He also pointed out the fact that they had not achieved anything in life and their problem areas. The character tried with all his appearance to show that he was exactly grandfather. He walked slowly across the stage and spoke in a voice characteristic of an elderly man. The judges willingly entered into dialogue with him and said response phrases to his dialogue. Of course, everyone understood that this was, first of all, a humorous show, and since the audience was laughing, then Uncle Vitya had a completely good performance. It does not matter by what means he achieved this success. It is for this reason that the jury members gave him the highest score.

Uncle Vitya and Comedy Battle

The Comedy Battle project could not do without this character. He took part in it for several seasons in a row. Unfortunately, the first time he failed to reach the final, and he dropped out a few steps before winning. However, he did not despair and tried to come to the project at the second stage. This time the jury members were famous people: Sergei Svetlakov, Semyon Slepakov and Alexander Revva. The elderly artist also began his performance by addressing the jury members. Unlike past performances, his usual jokes were not received as positively, and within minutes of him being on stage, two of the judges pressed their red buttons. However, the positive man quickly corrected the situation and ensured that the jury members changed their opinion about him. At the moment, Uncle Vitya is a participant in the Comedy Battle show. It is not yet known whether he will win the project or leave it at the next stage. However, he received a remark from the jury members; they did not like the fact that, unlike many participants, this person came on stage without prior preparation.

Many viewers of the official website of the TV show also believe that it is unfair to give victory to the person who improvises on stage and does not show a full performance.

Business and performances

Despite his cruel jokes, Uncle Vitya from Moscow is a popular man. Many people want this particular grandfather to become their host at a wedding, anniversary or other celebration. It is worth noting that this elderly man has his own advertising agent and pages on all social networks.

Uncle Vitya believes that you should seek his services, since, unlike the younger generation, he was able to achieve something in life. We found out how much a corporate event with the participation of Uncle Vitya will cost. As a rough estimate, the amount is 180 thousand rubles, and this does not include accommodation and flights to the event site.

Despite the fact that in the show this man revealed himself as a negative character, many clients speak of him as a person with a broad soul.

Uncle Vitya - Ilya Sobolev

The character named Uncle Vitya, according to some assumptions, is called Ilya Sobolev. He gave himself this name, because he believed that it would emphasize his image. All spectators see this artist on stage as a mischievous old man who speaks to the audience impudently and impudently. He is excellent at answering the jury's questions with humor, improvising and composing texts from phrases suggested by the show organizers. However, no one has seen it in other genres. It is also not known what kind of person is hiding under this mask. Uncle Vitya keeps the intrigue in front of the audience until the end and does not reveal his true face to anyone. He even communicates with all the channel employees in the same manner. Perhaps it is for this reason that it arouses interest among viewers. Journalists tried to get to the truth, but they only managed to find out that this man is married and is a happy family man.

So who is Uncle Vitya from Comedy Battle? This question will torment all fans of the TNT channel for many years to come. This funny character is not going to reveal his identity and stop participating in such projects, perhaps precisely O For this reason, he was loved by all viewers.

Show “Money or Shame” - 2017

The presenter has a personal show - “Money or Shame.” This is another scandalous project, the goal of which is to attract more audience to the TNT-4 channel.

The essence of the program is to expose the stars. They come to the studio, and Uncle Vitya gives them 1,000,000 rubles, and then asks tough questions of any nature, on the most sensitive topics.

If a guest is modest and does not answer, he gives a certain amount back; the more modest the participant, the poorer.

The first season is already on screen. The program is starting to gain views and its popularity is predictable - the project is almost a win-win. After all, what interests the main audience are peppered stories from the lives of stars.

Considering that the show stars employees of the same channel, it seems that they are all actors from the same play and how reliable the information received by the presenter is unknown. But these are just assumptions of some viewers who leave comments, while the organizers claim that everything is true.

Video about Uncle Vita

Childhood and youth

At the age of 13, Ilya entered the city KVN School League. In the final game, the teenager fought with the captain of the opposing team, Roman Klyachkin, who later became his best friend and colleague in the world of humor.

After graduating from Krasnoyarsk Lyceum No. 102, Ilya entered the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Materials Science in Krasnoyarsk, and then received an acting education at the St. Petersburg Theater Academy (SPbGATI).

Humor

Even while participating in KVN, Sobolev and Klyachkin began performing in a duet called “Beautiful”. Soon the guys became residents of the Comedy Club Siberia. In 2007, the duo tried their hand at the first season of a new humorous competition from TNT, “Laughter without Rules,” in which they took 2nd place and received the right to participate in the “Slaughter League” show. In this show, until 2010, Ilya performed not only as part of the “Beautiful” duet, but also solo.

In August 2010, the TNT channel launched the entertainment show “Comedy Battle,” in which Ilya became one of the participants. The comedian, together with Dmitry Romanov, Evgeny Otstavnov, Konstantin Pushkin and Slava Komissrenko, performed as part of the “Aristocrats” clan in seasons 1 and 2 of the show and more than once became the author of the best jokes.

Ilya Sobolev in the Comedy Club: “Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev”

In 2011, the “Beautiful” duet became the winner of the 9th season of “Laughter Without Rules,” in which the finalists of previous seasons took part.

In the fall of 2013, Ilya Sobolev, together with Alexey Smirnov and Anton Ivanov, founded the trio “Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev” - in this composition, comedians became residents of the Comedy club show.

Ilya Sobolev and Uncle Vitya

Another proof that fans of domestic humor found is the show “Money or Shame.” Its host is Uncle Vitya, and on Ilya Sobolev’s VKontakte page, the official page of this program appears in the list of his subscriptions almost at the highest place.

Answer to the haters of the show “Money or Shame” from Uncle Vitya!

Ilya Sobolev in every possible way denied his involvement in the “Money or Shame” show. When MBAND participant Artem Pindyura, enraged by the show’s host’s phrase (“MBAND is a show for worms”), recorded a video message demanding an apology, Sobolev posted a response video, but not an “apologetic” one.

Music and cinema

Sobolev Ilya and Andrian - I'm stupid

In 2017, Sobolev starred in the series “The Phantom of the Opera,” directed by Emil Nikoghosyan (“Moms 3,” “Champions”). The series tells the story of the friendship between police operative Alexey (Vyacheslav Evlantyev) and the ghost of the legendary swindler Pashka Veterok (Garik Kharlamov).

Personal life of Ilya Sobolev

Ilya Sobolev now

In September 2017, Sobolev joined the #TOPSHOWMEN project, a community of the best presenters from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Also in September 2017, Sobolev resumed publishing vlogs on his YouTube channel. In his videos, the comedian covers all the most relevant and eternal topics: old age, fears, show business stars, the gay community, etc. In October 2017, Sobolev, together with other members of the Comedy Club, went on a tour of North America.

Ilya Sobolev “Bad jokes”

In the winter of 2018, the comedian announced a new show, “Prozharka,” which launched on the TNT4 channel. As part of the project, aspiring comedians and humor professionals made fun of a specific person throughout the episode. One of the first heroines of the program was Olga Buzova.

Uncle Vitya is one of the most uncompromising comedians on Russian television. He first appeared in the show Comedy Battle, where he reached the final. Despite the fact that he failed to win in that project, he was able to organize his own show - “Money or Shame” on the TNT4 channel, where he invites stars to teach them to laugh at themselves and not be afraid of sensitive topics. The guest who copes with this leaves with a monetary win. In his conversations with stars, he does not hesitate to discuss shameful facts from their personal lives and provoke them in every way. He forced Stas Yarushin to compete with a homeless man, Vadim Galygin to lick a pig, and Ekaterina Varnava even smashed her brand new smartphone on the table. On September 14, the final episode of the first season, “Money or Shame,” was released, and many have long been asking the question, who is this Uncle Vitya and why does he allow himself to behave this way?

- Uncle Vitya, after the success of the show, I would like to address you more formally. What's your middle name?
To be honest, I still don’t know who my father is, since birth I lived under my uncle’s stairs, I had a scar on my forehead, then I entered some university, where I killed a noseless man. And if you wrote all this down, then I’m more interested in who your father is, since he raised such an idiot.

You are now a popular host on a channel with more than 90 million audience. Have you already been called to host weddings or corporate events?
Yes, I recently had a very expensive wedding and am now wealthy for the rest of my life. It’s not that they paid me a lot, I just didn’t have much time left.

- Were there any offers from other channels? Are you going to follow Malakhov's example?
It's good that you reminded me. I officially invite Malakhov to my show, or let him invite me to his. For the sake of this hype, I’m even ready to sleep with a young pretty stunner... for example, Allegrova.

- Do they recognize you on the streets and ask for an autograph?
They don’t really recognize me on the streets; TNT4 doesn’t show me in Monaco. By the way, these are two unrelated facts.

- Did you manage to bring any of the guests of the first season of “Money or Shame” to tears?
Yes, Maxim Galkin was crying and begging for the program not to go on air. But she didn’t come out. Apparently, he also begged Pugacheva to come out, and she did.

- Who would you like to see on your show in the new season?
Someone from the top leadership of the country. I think the highest rated episode will be with Yeltsin.

- If a star refuses to come to you, what threatens her?
Participation in the show is on a voluntary basis only. But in fact, no one has yet refused, which is why the relatives of the stars who participated in the program have all the fingers on their hands.

- Can we find any incriminating evidence on you similar to what you find on your guests?
In fact, it’s very easy to find incriminating evidence on me - just type into a search engine the phrase: “Uncle Vitya sat on a journalist’s face,” however, this video will appear online only in an hour.

- Who is the best comedian on modern TV?
This is a stupid question. It's like asking Putin who is the best president. By the way, the answer to both questions is “Uncle Vitya.”

- Is your pension enough to live on?
What does pension have to do with it? I'm long past retirement age.

-Have you had problems with the law?
Yes, I once escaped from Shawshank through a sewer pipe. But in our country lying is not punishable.

- Thank you, Uncle Vit! Any wishes for your viewers?
Watch “Money or Shame” on TNT4 channel. There's a lot of money, improvisation and shame - in general, my show is like the Russian national football team.

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Uncle Vitya is a shocking character in humorous shows that air on the TNT channel. Viewers are sure that under his mask there is a young comedian, whose name is still kept secret. The funny old man became the star of the show “Comedy Battle”, “Laughter without Rules”, and then created his own project.

Character history

When Uncle Vitya first appeared on the stage of Slaughter League, people wondered who played him. Some had no doubt that this was a real person. After all, the actor transforming into him cleverly hid under professional makeup and did not give himself away.

Uncle Vitya always has the same image. Old worn trousers, plaid shirts worn over a turtleneck, and a vest or jacket. And the movement around the stage, characteristic of an elderly person, casts even greater doubts. The man came up with the name Uncle Vitya, or rather his pseudonym, himself, which further emphasizes the created image.

A comedian is good at the conversational genre, when he has to quickly come up with a funny answer to the questions of the jury members and improvise. However, the man was not seen in other directions. It is not known for certain who is hiding behind the mask of a grumpy old man. The organizers of the shows in which he participates assure that the man communicates with them in the same way as on stage.

Although Uncle Vitya tries to keep the intrigue to the last and does not reveal his true face, attentive viewers have drawn conclusions for themselves. The main version is that he is hiding under the mask of a rollicking pensioner. This is a comedian on the TNT channel and a former member of the KVN team, who has a reputation as a cheerful guy who performs in miniatures in stand-up style.

Viewers of humorous programs made such conclusions after carefully comparing photos of Sobolev and Uncle Vitya. Despite the applied makeup, users found similarities in the facial features of these two people. Moreover, as “experts” assure, the image of the old man is not accidental. It is partially copied from the film “Man on the Moon”, Sobolev’s favorite film.

Those who carefully watched “Laughter Without Rules” also made their own conclusions. Uncle Vitya’s voice, rude and harsh, broke during the broadcast of the program, and the phrase “He is no longer a defender” was uttered in Sobolev’s voice.

The main distinguishing feature of this character is his jokes. More precisely, in the translation of any questions addressed to him on the topic of the love affairs of an elderly man. The boorish, unbridled Don Juan seems repulsive and outrageous to the audience. However, his wit allows him to quickly come up with a suitable answer and make the whole room laugh.

No matter how much journalists and simply lovers of TNT’s humorous projects tried to get to the bottom of the truth, the attempts were in vain. Sobolev and the channel’s management claim that these are two different people, Ilya has no relation to Uncle Vita.

In May 2018, in an interview for the Talking Heads Youtube channel, Sobolev personally answered an exciting question, assuring the host that Uncle Vitya was not him. Therefore, everyone is left to continue to wonder whether this character is real, or whether he is skillfully played by a professional actor.

Humor and TV shows

For the first time, viewers saw Uncle Vitya on the stage of the humorous show “Laughter without Rules” in 2007. He turned his speech into a dialogue with the jury. The jokes were directed at the girls who sat in the judge's chairs. The man “flirted” with, and. Nobody took him seriously, although the mysterious character's approach to humor and charisma captivated thousands of viewers. So other television programs began to appear in his biography.

In the show “Killer League”, the purpose of which was to select comedians to advance to the next stages and fight for the place of the best, Uncle Vitya was seen again. The man performed on par with other participants and captivated everyone with his jokes, from young people to the elderly.

Uncle Vitya appeared more than once in Comedy Battle. More precisely, he became a full-fledged participant in the project, along with other performers in three seasons. While on stage, the man improvises; he does not prepare for his appearances, but tries to get the jury to talk. Moreover, he always has the same image - a grumpy old man who doesn’t love anyone.

During the entire time Uncle Vitya participated in this project, he even managed to reach the finals. In the 7th season of the project, which took place under the slogan “Experience vs. Youth,” the man took 4th place and received the right to open his own project on the TNT channel.

He also competed in Season 8, again finishing in 4th place, but this time the cash prize was only for the sole finalist. However, he was not upset, because he began promoting his own program called “Money or Shame.”

Uncle Vitya's new show started in the summer of 2017. He invites famous guests to the studio and does not change the created image when communicating with them. The stars of Russian show business experience sophisticated “set-ups”, sharp facts and scandalous details of their lives from Uncle Vitya.

The audience appreciated the show of the outrageous old man, so filming did not stop after the release of the first filmed episodes. In January 2018, the 2nd season of the show was released, and in the summer of the same year, viewers saw the 3rd. The man continues to look for new “victims” for his show, shoots new episodes and remains afloat for now.

Uncle Vitya now

On November 5, 2018, the 4th season of Uncle Vitya’s show “Money or Shame” started, where the participants, represented by eminent guests, will have to answer the host’s tricky questions. For completing all stages of the program, the guest star receives a cash prize.

Other actors, comedians and singers have already come to visit Uncle Vita in previous episodes. The largest sum of money was earned by a businesswoman and former participant in the television project “Dom-2”.

• The fact that Uncle Vitya and Sobolev are one person has not yet been proven. Attentive viewers noticed an important detail in one of the episodes of “Slaughter League”. After the next performance, when the comedian went down the steps from the stage, Ilya Sobolev, or a guy similar to him, appeared in the same frame for 10 seconds. This video is freely available on the Internet.

• The interviews that Uncle Vitya gives for online publications are conducted in the same style as communication on stage during performances. The comedian turns questions from journalists into jokes and does not answer any questions seriously.
• In the program “Money or Shame,” where the invited guest was an actor, Uncle Vitya paid most attention to the latter. Moreover, the jokes were daring and arrogant. Although they made the audience laugh, Ruslan did not like such attention. He even went up on stage to “deal” with the man, but everything ended well.

Projects

• 2007 – “Laughter without rules”
• 2009 – “Slaughter League”
• 2015 – “Comedy Battle. Last season"
• 2016 – “Comedy Battle. Experience vs. Youth"
• 2017-2018 – “Money or shame”
• 2018 – “Comedy Battle. Stand-up vs. Miniatures"

The essence of which is that the presenter is desperately rude to the stars, discussing with them various sharp edges of their lives, offering them a million for it. The show is hosted by “Uncle Vitya” - a guy in his grandfather’s makeup, known from the shows “Laughter without Rules” and “Comedy Battle”. His real name is hidden.

Many initially perceived the program friendly, testing their nerves to the limit. After all, the amount of the prize if you can discuss all the unpleasant topics is equal to a million rubles. But recently Ekaterina Varnava stormed out of the studio, yelling at the presenter. And before that, just recently the presenter heartily trampled on the guys from the MBand group. Artem Pindyura, Nikita Kiosse and Anatoly Tsoi, who were not even guests of the program, heard real rudeness addressed to them, which is not easy to explain even by the format of the program.

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Money or shame MBAND.

After watching the program, Pindyura, having conducted his own investigation, decided to record a video message to the host:

“Not so long ago a project was released on one TV channel called “Money or Shame.” A certain Uncle Vitya leads and waters everyone there as best he can, thinking it’s funny. I’m sure that everyone already understands that under the beard and glasses of this Uncle Vitya is comedian Ilya Sobolev. I came across two episodes of this show, in which he “joked” at our group, and, accordingly, at me personally. "Okay, what's wrong? It's just humor!" - many will say, and I, in principle, agree with them! But not with everything. To phrases from the series “blue trailer, blue oyster”, etc. , hinting at our supposedly non-traditional sexual orientation, I’m already used to it and don’t pay attention to them! But! Dude, you are a media personality, and this time you are talking about it openly on a TV channel that the whole country has access to, which is subject to censorship. You are not sitting at home in the kitchen, and not at an 18+ stand-up show, and not even on the Internet. You talk about it on TV! And there is no need to say that you were forced, I’m sure you write such “jokes” yourself! What originality...Well, that’s nothing! In another episode you say that “all the worms will come out when the chorus of the MBAND song starts, because this is their favorite band!” I perceive this as a direct insult to all our fans and admirers, and there are quite a few of them, and this is a rather serious statement and insult that irritates me! Accordingly, I reserve the right to express all this here! In the Internet! Because you've gone beyond personal insults! I am quite self-ironic and like to laugh, whether at myself or not! But when is it really funny! Here it’s not funny, it’s not sharp, it’s humiliating! If there are any complaints against me, I am ready to talk personally! Apologies are still accepted!

Comedian Ilya Sobolev, whom Artem mentioned, began to deny that it was he who was hosting the scandalous show. Like, I have nothing to apologize for. But then he deleted the video with the comment from his page, and posted another one - directly addressed to Pindyura, in no way apologetic in nature. We have no doubt that the story will continue - it’s not for nothing that Pindyura doesn’t get out of the gym, he may well challenge Sobolev to a battle, but not a verbal one, but a real fist fight.

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