Watched more than 1.3 million times since it was posted by Russian comedy group “Plyushki” to YouTube last month, the video comes with a disclaimer. “Some of the jokes are based on wordplay and do not ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General," originally published in 1836, is a comedy classic and a masterpiece of political satire.

Exiled Russian journalist Vladimir Raevsky has used a well-known Russian fairy tale as the basis for his stand-up comedy. It’s called “the realm that never smiled” and it encourages Russian speaking ...

I was recently party to the world premiere of Russian stand-up comedian Sasha Nezlobin’s show I’m Фine (spelt with a Cyrillic “ф”, pronounced “f”), previewing ahead of a month-long run at the ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...