Comedy Club Host

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Performances from the stage by everyone's favorite folk artists like Zadornov, Petrosyan, Khazanov have long become history. As a logical outcome of the development of domestic pop humor, or maybe just a transitional link to something more interesting, a new entertainment appeared in 2003.

Russian viewers, fed up with their own stage and Western attractions, literally pounced on a new project - "Comedy Club", the creators and participants of which were former KVN players. Soon this enterprise turned into a business with a turnover of tens of millions of very significant and significant monetary units.

Definitely, a considerable share of the merit in the successful development of the project belongs to the artist, endowed with the status of "leading "Comedy Club".

How it all began

It's hard to imagine modern Russian humor without them. This can be compared, for example, with an attempt to present the famous Boyarsky without a mustache and a hat. Who would want to do this? Residents of the Comedy Club - Kharlamov, Martirosyan, Slepakov,Batrutdinov and Volya - told reporters about their success story.

The main ideologists of the creation of the project were the natives of the Kaveen team "New Armenians". Tash Sargsyan, Garik Martirosyan, Artur Janibekyan and Artak Gasparyan came up with a new comedy project that got off to a good start from the very beginning. It happened in Kasbara on September 12, 2003. Eminent guests attended their first party: Kirkorov, Yudashkin, well-known representatives of show business. It was a resounding success. That evening the good old Comedy Club was born.

Business

So they began to call him five years later, after many updates, looking back from the height of the past to a distant history, to the origins. In 2004, the entire enterprise was relocated to the Maner cafe. The success of the project largely depended on the entrepreneurial spirit of Janibekyan, who created a solid business. A certain aura of elitism surrounding the Comedy artists allowed them to ask for places in the Manner up to 2-3 thousand rubles per evening. In addition, the significant income of the company was brought by participation in corporate parties. Soon the general producer of TNT D. Troitsky offered them a place on the channel.

Brand Promotion

Every Russian knows what happened next. Then there was tireless work, marked by the recognition of the public. Today, the Comedy Club brand is very popular. General Director A. Dzhanibekyan plans to release several similar projects over the next few years, united by the SS brand.

In addition to the head office in Moscow, there are subsidiaries. Basic Incomethe company receives from television (about 30%), the rest is given by parties in clubs and tours, including foreign ones. The earnings of the actors, as conceived by the CEO, are the basis of a strong unity of the company. They range from 25 to 50 thousand dollars.

Entertainment industry

They created a production company Comedy Club Production on NTN, special issues and festivals of humor are released on Channel One. In 2008, the Comedy TV channel was created. Animation studio Toonbox created an animated series based on their script. In April 2010, an update of the project was presented, in which a new director (Sergey Shirokov), music and design appeared, the artists began to be called "residents".

About criticism

Yes, they are criticized. For excessive, according to some, the commercialization of the project. For vulgarity and profanity. For shocking and "toilet" humor, unacceptable in a civilized society.

Mission Impossible

Fans of the same project believe that the most fertile material for "Comedy" were and are people who behave like idiots, and have completely ceased to be aware of it. In one of the publications, the idea was expressed that the Comedy Club performs a certain sanitary function in Russian society: it ridicules drug addicts, adherents of non-traditional sex, and so on. The author even tried to make an assumption that special clay machine guns are built into the brains of these guys, which shoot down the dull Russian reality. Here you can immediately answer winged: "mission impossible." But that doesn't mean it shouldn't beexercise.

Comedy Club Host

As with any show, the role of the host in Comedy is very responsible. An artist appointed to this role must have charm, outstanding acting skills, humor, a talent for improvisation, communication skills and the ability to charge the audience and actors with a positive, cheerful mood. This is by no means an entertainer in the traditional sense. This is an active participant in numbers, obliged to be ready for anything. At various times, this status - the host of the Comedy Club - obliged Artashes Sargsyan, Garik Kharlamov, Pavel Volya, Timur Batrutdinov, Garik Martirosyan to meet the increased requirements.

How do programs usually run? Any appearance on the stage of the group - let it be USB (United Sexy Boys), parodying pop music - begins with a verbal skirmish between the participants and the presenter, which flares up and lasts until the Comedy Club host relents and allows the participants show the clip, “if only they would leave quickly.”

A member of the Turbo group (S. Gorelikov), addressing the presenter, compares him with the most incompatible things and phenomena. In this case, as a rule, uses profanity. To which he must respond witty.

Next Dyusha Metelkin, another member of the group, also practices choosing mocking nicknames for the presenter: he calls Martirosyan "black-browed", "50 shades of black", "popular shawarma" Martirosyan, makes fun of Batrutdinov's Tatar origin, Volya's slender physique, etc. e. The leader is obligedimprovise in response to the attacks of the participants or respond according to the preparation, but in such a way that the viewer perceives the skirmish as improvisation, otherwise the atmosphere of fun in the hall will be disturbed.

Tash Sargsyan

When the words “our permanent leader” are uttered in the “Comedy Club”, they mean, of course, Artashes Sargsyan, despite the fact that his tenure in this role refers to the period called “the old “Comedy Club "".

Charming and smiling, with beautiful intelligent eyes, looking somewhere much deeper than the eyes of the audience, with inner warmth emanating from him and a special charisma inherent only to him, Tash (his "comedy" nickname), stood like they say, at the origins and really was the permanent leader of the project from its first day. Until the moment when, for personal reasons, he decided to change his artistic activity to another one.

About the fate of the beloved presenter ("ex-…")

Fans online often share information about their favorite artists, ask about those they have lost sight of. They are also interested in the fate of the permanent host of the Comedy Club. What is known about Tasha?

Artashes Gagikovich Sargsyan, born in 1974 (Yerevan), is a professional actor, TV producer, TV presenter (directions: KVN, humor, satire, Comedy Club, sports), champion of the Higher League of KVN (1997), winner of the Summer KVN Cup (1998), Big KiViN in light (1996, 1997). Since 2015, he has been working as the editor-in-chief of the Directorate of Sports Broadcasts of the Match-TV channel, owns restaurants in Moscow.

About the biography and family of Sargsyan

Tash was born and raisedin an ordinary family. At school he was an exemplary student, about whom teachers spoke very warmly. He loved to speak to the public - parents, grandparents, neighbors. It was clear to those around him that an artist would grow out of the boy.

I have always dreamed of an acting career. But after school, he decided to get a more practical profession and entered the Agricultural Academy in Yerevan at the Faculty of Winemaking. During his student years, performances in KVN brought him extraordinary joy. As part of the New Armenians team, he performed until 2003. In the same year, he became the host of the Comedy Club.

Private life

By his own admission, Artashes always dreamed of a Russian wife. She had to be beautiful, faithful, economic. In 2012, he met his ideal. At a party with friends, he met a clever and beautiful woman, besides a blonde, Olga. Since then they have been husband and wife. But so far only civilians. His other half is a former MGIMO graduate and an employee of one of the major international companies. Now she is the keeper of the hearth in her family nest with Tash.

Career

In 2007, Sargsyan opened his own establishment called ТМ Cafe. The project has fully justified itself and for several years now continues to bring profit to the owner. In 2010, Artashes opened another institution - Cafe 54. In addition, for some time Tash worked as the editor-in-chief of Total Football magazine. Sargsyan has recently been working on the Match-TV channel

Intellectual and connoisseur of beauty

And they also call him - “the conscience of the Comedy Club”. Garik Martirosyan, like many other residents, went through the KVN school. In the New Armenians team, he was the captain. By education he is a neuropathologist-psychotherapist. In the Comedy Club, Garik Martirosyan, with his patience, artistry and subtle humor, successfully complements and balances the tough performances of the participants.

He is the host, co-producer, artistic director, resident of the project, producer of TV programs from the Comedy Club (“Our Russia”, “Laughter without rules”), as well as the author of many interesting ideas on TV, the host of the show. Since March 2016, she has been acting as a host on the Dancing with the Stars project.

Biography

Garik Martirosyan was born into a family of Yerevan intellectuals. He has to celebrate his birthday for two days in a row, since the parents considered the real date - February 13, 1974 - unsuccessful and asked her to change it to the fourteenth. Owns several musical instruments (piano, guitar, drum), writes music.

After graduating from Yerevan Medical University, he worked as a doctor for three years. During the period from 1993 to 2002, he was a player and captain of the New Armenians KVN team, took part in the work of the SSR National Team. Garik is a participant in the host of many television shows, a producer and author of successful projects. Since 2005 - one of the authors, participant and host of the Comedy Club project. Pavel Volya and Martirosyan recorded the album Respect and Respect in 2007.

Personal

Married with two children. All free timespends with family. He is fond of football. Favorite team is Lokomotiv Moscow.

Snowball

This is Pavel Volya's stage nickname. To the question "why?" the artist replies that this is what American blacks call a white guy who is not like them. The resident and presenter Volya really differs from the hot and hard composition of Comedy in its sophistication. Although his role is a “glamorous bastard”, building his performances on a harsh ridicule of all kinds of vices and shortcomings of others.

Born in Penza, studied at the Pedagogical University, preparing to become a teacher of Russian language and literature. Not judged. Pavel Volya is known for the fact that at one of his speeches he addressed the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin with criticism of the quality of Russian goods. He said that the Russians "hands grow out of the wrong place." And before relying on domestic goods, refusing to import (the Russian government's response to European sanctions), you should first learn from Europe how to work.

Garik, aka Igor, aka Andrey, aka Bulldog

One of the brightest characters of Comedy Club is Garik Kharlamov. Talented, smart and creative, with excellent artistry and a sense of humor. Stands out as the brightest comedian on the stage of the Russian Federation.

Born in Moscow in 1980. At first he was named Andrew. Three months later, the parents changed their son's name, naming him in honor of the deceased grandfather Igor. So someone has two dates of birth, and Garik Kharlamov responds to two names, about which all his friends are warned. Although there are stilland two pseudonyms: from school, the nickname "Garik" stuck to him, and in "Comedy" he was also called "Bulldog". Why - no one knows, but everyone likes it. A cheerful disposition and exceptional artistry of character contributed to the fact that in childhood the boy changed more than one school.

America

Besides, after the divorce of his parents, his father took him with him to Chicago. At the age of 16, Garik entered the famous Harend acting school. The famous American actor Billy Zane was the first stage teacher of the future resident and host of the Comedy Club. Garik Kharlamov returned to Russia after five years.

Russia. Climbing to Success

He was used to earning his living on his own back in America, where he worked at McDonald's and sold cell phones. At home, a young man with a friend walked the subway cars, telling jokes, and also sang songs with a guitar on the Arbat. At the State University of Management, in addition to the profession of a personnel manager, he gained experience in performing in KVN (teams "Ungold Youth", "Team of Moscow" in the Major League). It was a serious school, where Garik established himself in the awareness of his talent and leadership inclinations.

The further life of Garik Kharlamov is a path that can be called an ascent to success and popularity. He received his first real success and recognition by acting as a resident and presenter at the Comedy Club.

About popularity

For about four years, Kharlamov performed in a duet with friend and colleague Timur Batrutdinov, then returned to the comedy program. Its really bright, sparklingperformances have become the hallmark of the club.

Garik Kharlamov performs outside the Comedy Club project as a film actor. In his filmography, there are already a dozen paintings that brought the artist wide fame. Married. With his wife, actress Kristina Asmus, he has a daughter.

Damn good-looking, picky and incredulous

Timur Batrutdinov is the only Comedy Club host who has never been married. This egregious fact of his biography has long been a cause for concern for his friends and fans. Timur himself admits that this topic is no longer at the level of the Adam's apple, but rests on the back of the head. Therefore, for several years on New Year's Eve, he annually vows to marry. But so far, even the role of the hero in the show "The Bachelor" on TNT, where numerous contenders for his hand and heart explained to Timur how handsome he is (see the quote in the sub title), did not help him overcome the phobia of family life.

From biography

Timur Batrutdinov was born in the small village of Voronovo, Moscow Region, in 1978. With his birth, too, not everything is fine. The city of Podolsk is erroneously recorded as the place of his birth. Since the father of the future comedian was a military man, the family often moved to different cities, which, as it turned out, only favored the development of the boy's humorous talent.

Since childhood, Timur has been very successful at school matinees. Then he began to "star" in the KVN team of the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, where, like Kharlamov, he received the speci alty of a personnel manager. With hisWith the help (Timur wrote bright, funny scripts), the team "Team of St. Petersburg" twice reached the final of the Major League of KVN. A good way to earn money was toastmasters at weddings and corporate parties.

One of the most promising Russian pop comedians

After serving in the army, he was offered to join the "Ungold Youth" team. Here Timur Batrutdinov finally decided to reach the heights in his comedy career. For many years he has a strong friendship with Garik Kharlamov. For a long time, their duet at the Comedy Club was a kind of symbol of the program.

Bright, original performances helped the artist become a real star. In addition to "Comedy", Batrutdinov participates in many interesting projects: "Hello, Kukuyevo!", "Happy Together", etc. The actor successfully played the main roles in feature films: "Two Antons", "The Best Film-2". Spectators and critics call Timur Batrutdinov one of the brightest promising comedians of the Russian stage. While he is certainly talented, smart and quick-witted, his jokes remain in memory for a long time, causing a sincere warm smile.

Humor "on the verge of a nervous breakdown"

Comedy Club hosts are the most popular and in-demand artists of the comic genre in Russia. Witty intellectuals, battle-hardened KVN officers, today they perform on the club stage, act in films, produce the most incredible projects. Of course, they also work as hosts of various events, where their participation is a 100% guaranteebrilliant success. In general, viewers and participants are ready for the perception of their killer charisma, spontaneous improvisations and sparkling, uncompromising humor “on the verge of a nervous breakdown”…