Biography
Actor and Comedy Club resident Dmitry Grachev says that he needs to thank his mother: it was from his female relatives that he received the appearance that made him popular. The resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin misleads even border guards. Foreigners often make requests or start conversations about politics. In Russia, people invite you to corporate events and ask you to play pranks on your friends. Grachev does not refuse: after 10 years of combining concerts with work at a bank, he finally devoted himself entirely to creativity.
“I said no to Putin himself!”: Kharlamov and Batrutdinov ridiculed the direct line with the president
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19 December 2020, 12:35 | Author: Ivan Rutov
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Users discuss the production of popular comedians, published on the day of Putin’s press conference.
On the day of Vladimir Putin’s big press conference in the Kremlin, the Instagram authors of the popular show Comedy Club published a rather old skit, which presents a parody of the direct line with the president.
The issue was attended by comedians Garik Kharlamov and Timur Batrutdinov, whose characters were nominated to talk to the leader of the country, performed by Dmitry Grachev, from the city of Syrovarsk. The delegates are determined to have a conversation. In particular, they intend to complain to the leader about the state of the roads, the closure of museums, pensions, and voice many other problems.
However, at the first turn on, Garik Kharlamov, sitting alone, seemed to be speechless. He opened his mouth slightly and was unable to utter a word.
As a result, “Putin” asked to contact another city, establish contact with Syrovarsk and return to it a little later.
Then Batrutdinov swoops down on Kharlamov. He criticizes him for being “nuts.”
“Your mouth was so open that you could see the asphalt!” - Batrutdinov is indignant.
In response, Kharlamov invites his friend to talk to the president himself, and Batrutdinov agrees. However, during the conversation, he is also unable to squeeze out a word.
“Tell me what the problems are. Maybe with roads, housing and communal services, pensions? - asks Dmitry Grachev.
To this Bartutdinov replies: “No.”
After this, “Putin” offers to return to Syrovarsk again later, and during the break, Kharlamov attacks Batrutdinov with accusations.
“By the way, I said no to Putin himself! And we don’t have many people who can say “no” to Putin!” - says Batrutdinov.
“Yes, all the other people live in London who told him no,” Kharlamov answers.
As a result, Garik decides to drink for courage, and when he turns on he can no longer put two words together due to intoxication.
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Subscribers were philosophical about the artists’ production.
“This is how all the people drink themselves to death”, “By the way, yes, servility is a very characteristic feature of most people”, “This is sad and right to the point”, “Super idea!!! In fact, people, of course, get lost in the face of the president himself, and sometimes talk nonsense. And all cities have problems through the roof,” followers write.
Earlier, TopNews wrote that Kharlamov, disgraced by Laysan Utyasheva, showed his “genital organ.”
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Grachev was born on December 23, 1977 in Kerch. The family lived in the Chernyakhovsky district, and later moved to the Seven Winds district. After graduating from an eight-year secondary school, Dmitry entered a vocational school to major in cabinetmaker and graduated with the third category. By his own admission, he can still make a piece of furniture.
Dmitry Grachev
Then I wanted more. The proposal to enter the capital’s university was made by his father - school grades allowed the parents to be proud of their son. However, the wife and Dmitry himself were skeptical at first about the idea, but later agreed. When he was 20 years old, the young man left Kerch. Grachev tried to enter MGIMO for three years in a row, and it was the third attempt that turned out to be successful - in 1999 he became a student at the Faculty of Journalism (specialty “International Journalism”).
Childhood and adolescence
Dmitry was born and raised in Kerch, on the shores of the Black Sea, and from childhood he was distinguished by seriousness and prudence. Few people could have thought then that an ordinary Crimean boy would soon be parodying Putin himself on stage.
Dmitry Grachev in his youth and now
At school, Dima was a diligent student, read a lot, actively participated in various school events, and came up with scripts for children's plays. The parents were proud of their smart son and predicted a great bright future for him. After graduating from the eight-year school, Dmitry took the documents to a vocational school, where he successfully mastered the profession of a cabinetmaker, received a third grade and learned to make furniture. But this seemed not enough to the ambitious young man, and at the age of twenty he left to conquer Moscow.
This time he set his sights on MGIMO, choosing the Faculty of International Journalism, and on the third attempt he entered a prestigious university. KVN players from the student team immediately drew attention to his resemblance to Putin and offered to say a few phrases from the stage in the image of the president.
Dmitry Grachev in KVN
Dmitry's first performance produced a deafening effect. From the audience, he looked even more like Vladimir Vladimirovich, and his characteristic facial expressions, quiet speech and correctly noticed “Putin” intonations turned an ordinary Crimean boy into a real double of the Russian leader. From that moment on, KVN firmly entered the life of the future international journalist and radically influenced his future fate.
Humor and creativity
The “presidential” role found itself in Grachev. Not interested in either STEM or KVN, the future impersonator of the head of state accidentally ended up at a rehearsal of the “cheerful and resourceful” - he came for a friend. The team was just trying to determine who should play the role of Vladimir Putin in one of the miniatures, and then someone noticed the similarity of the hero with the appearance of Grachev. Dmitry was persuaded to come to the performance.
“They let me say 7-8 phrases that didn’t seem funny to me at all,” Grachev told reporters. “But I came out, said these phrases and, as they say, “teared up the hall.”
The KVN player first played for the “MAMI” team, and later, when it merged with the team of the Moscow State University Law Faculty, for the “Ungolden Youth”. This group was popular in the early 2000s and opened the way to the stage for many comedians, primarily residents of the Comedy Club.
Dmitry Grachev and Vladimir Putin
Among them: Garik Kharlamov, Dmitry Sorokin, Timur Batrutdinov, Anatoly Burnosov. The latter invited Grachev to perform in a new comedy show after graduating from university in 2005.
The real test for Grachev was the game of the 2004 KVN season, which was watched from the audience by the object of his constant parodies. “Ungolden Youth” showed a miniature “Meeting of two Putins,” in which St. Petersburg national team player Dmitry Khrustalev also participated. The President laughed and applauded the jokes along with the rest of the audience and has since attended KVN games several times.
Dmitry Grachev in KVN
According to Grachev, the similarity of temperaments helps to get used to the character. However, the artist continues to monitor how the head of state behaves, capturing the details of facial expressions, gestures, and intonations. If, after moving to the Comedy Club, Grachev only wrote jokes to the others, then later he began to act as a resident. Solo numbers required more careful work on the image.
Dmitry calls himself a conservative, talking about how for many years he combined stage performances with regular work. After receiving his diploma, he served for six months in the Ministry of Transport. After that, he was invited to work in the press service of Rosbank, where he stayed for 10 years before completely going into show business.
Comedy Club resident Dmitry Grachev
Off stage, Grachev tries to neutralize the resemblance to the head of state: he does not wear suits or ties, and chooses things in a casual style. Nevertheless, those around him periodically strive to take a photo of him or at least say hello. And even loved ones do not stay away.
“It happens that I prove something to my girlfriend,” the artist admits to journalists, “and she suddenly says: “Stop, stop, stop. Wait, now you are absolutely like Putin.” - Do you understand? I don’t even have to do anything.”
Dmitry Grachev as Vladimir Putin
Now Grachev has a number of projects behind him. He was one of the authors of the Comedy Woman project. Then it was called “Made in woman” and had not yet been broadcast on TV. Over the past decade, his biography has been replenished with a list of films and TV series in which he, of course, got roles related to his appearance.
Creative biography of Dmitry Grachev
Dmitry Grachev, who is known to our viewers for his participation in humorous programs, was born in 1977 in the Crimea, in the glorious city of Kerch. From childhood, the boy amazed his family with incredibly smart reasoning and thoughts that are more characteristic of an adult. His biography as a creative person began to show clear outlines back in his school years. The boy actively took part in all school performances, wrote scripts for performances and helped stage them.
After school, in 1990, Dmitry goes to Moscow, where he successfully enrolls in the Faculty of International Journalism at MGIMO. The young man has a light and sociable character, natural kindness and optimism, which makes him the soul of every company. It was during his studies at the institute that Dmitry discovered KVN, and as a result, journalism faded into the background. The talent of a comedic actor, whose photo has common features with the head of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, is clearly demonstrated in the MAMI team. After some time, Grachev begins performing with the “Ungolden Youth” team.
It was not his discography that played a big role in the comedian’s popularity, but his sparkling parody of Putin. The actor perfectly conveyed the image of the Russian president; his amazing acting, diction and facial expressions caused a storm of applause from the audience.
After graduating from the institute, Grachev worked for some time at the Ministry of Transport, but the stage remained in first place. At the end of the 2000s, Dmitry made solo performances outside the team of cheerful and resourceful people, and over time he came to the Comedy Club, for which he became not only just a resident, but a real ideological inspirer. It was with the support of Grachev that the project “Made in woman” was developed, which today is known as “Comedy woman”.
Dmitry Grachev has experience working in cinema, and who knows, maybe in the future the comedian will be able to please us with his MP3 compositions. So let's wish him good luck and look forward to his new projects.
Personal life
In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Dmitry Grachev said that he has a girlfriend named Zhanna. They had known each other for a long time, but started dating recently. In July 2020, the publication “7 days” reported that Dmitry and Zhanna were married.
Dmitry Grachev sometimes comes to his hometown in Crimea. When he has time, he looks into schools and colleges. He admits that there are almost no acquaintances left in Kerch - everyone, like him, moved to Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Dmitry Grachev and his wife Zhanna
In his free time, Grachev travels. He emphasizes: recently people have begun to be recognized abroad more often. In October 2017, on the “Evening Urgant” program, he spoke about his recent trip to Germany for a friend’s birthday. When he went through passport control, the border guard asked him about the purpose of the visit. Grachev, as expected, replied that he was going to see a friend.
“Tell your friend,” the service employee said, handing over his passport, “so that she can finally solve the problem with migrants.”
Dmitry Grachev in the show “Evening Urgant”
Dmitry Grachev, who cut off his wife's hands, was sentenced to 14 years in a maximum security colony
The high-profile and terrible case of inhuman jealousy has been put to rest. Dmitry Grachev, who cut off his wife’s hands, received 14 years in a maximum security colony. About a year has passed, but the details of this terrible incident are simply impossible to forget. A young and beautiful woman, a mother of two children, was taken by her husband to the forest for brutal reprisals. I planned everything in advance. Simply because she wanted a divorce.
He goes to the announcement of the verdict calmly, looks calmly into the camera lenses, does not hide his eyes either in front of his ex-wife, whose life he suddenly ruined, or in front of her parents. He carried with him a notebook already familiar to all participants in the trial - from it the defendant Dmitry Grachev read poetry instead of the last word. Today, listening to the court verdict, he did not utter a single word. Still the same confident look. There was no reaction either to the deadline or to the shouts of journalists, whom the meeting room could barely accommodate.
A terrible story happened last December in Serpukhov near Moscow. The husband, suspecting his wife of treason, cut off her hands.
“I would like the maximum possible and for life, but I understand that under these articles there is no such term. The prosecutor asked for 17 years and with mitigating factors - this is an objectively possible punishment. But I say - no punishment will return my hands,” said Margarita Gracheva.
They met more than ten years ago, while still schoolchildren. In photographs from a past life, Margarita glows with happiness. Wedding, birth of two sons. At first glance, a strong family. But one day Dmitry began to torment her with scenes of jealousy. He beat him up in front of the children, threatened him with a knife, and forced him to take a lie detector test. It is not surprising that the couple was on the verge of divorce.
The investigation proved that Grachev planned the crime in advance in the smallest detail. The goal was not to kill the former love, but to cripple her. At the same time, he himself brought Rita to the hospital, and then surrendered to the police. Turning in, as is known, mitigates guilt.
“He studied medical literature, in part, how to properly provide first aid to victims with traumatic amputation. And at the same time, he studied the Criminal Code, especially in terms of mitigating circumstances. At the stage of the preliminary investigation, Grachev did not repent of what he had done,” said Olga Vradiy, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region.
Whether it was a miracle or high professionalism, the doctors managed to save Margarita’s left hand. Instead of the right one there is now a prosthesis.
“It was a terrible moment when she was transferred from intensive care in the hospital. Naturally, a person cannot do anything at all without hands. And when she started telling some details, it was also scary. Now I’m scared thinking about how to tell this to children,” said Inna Sheikina, Margarita Gracheva’s mother.
For the children, the mother had an accident. A year later they don’t even remember their father. Margarita received neither an apology nor repentance from her now ex-husband. Only threats that he conveyed to her through mutual friends after his arrest.
“When he took me to the hospital, he repeated that if you don’t wait for me, I will kill you and your relatives. Afraid. And this term gives me at least some kind of protection, if he was given three years, it would be even worse, this term gives me at least some kind of reliability,” says Margarita.
The doctors considered the defendant absolutely sane, noting only that Grachev was touchy and vulnerable. His lawyer is preparing to appeal the verdict. And his ex-wife, a young 26-year-old woman, is learning to live from scratch. There is a long rehabilitation ahead. The functions of the left hand are unlikely to be fully restored. Afterwards, Margarita plans to improve her personal life and dreams of female happiness. No evidence of her adultery was discovered during the investigation.
Dmitry Grachev now
Grachev remains a resident of the Comedy Club. In 2020, one of the most striking videos was released - a number that depicts a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The role of the American president was played by Garik Kharlamov.
Dmitry Grachev and Garik Kharlamov as Putin and Trump
In October 2020, another striking parody appeared - “Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un and Angela Merkel.”
In 2020, a comedy starring Dmitry Grachev was released. The film directed by Ilya Sherstobitov is called “President’s Vacation.”
Dmitry Grachev in 2018
According to the plot, while the real head of state is traveling around the country incognito, his place is accidentally taken by a double named Valery (Grachev), who has to quickly learn the basics of government. Along with Grachev, the film stars Evgeny Sidikhin, Oleg Vasilkov, Anna Tsukanova-Kott, Dmitry Dibrov and others.
Career
Soon he began to play for the MAMI team, and then moved to the “Non-Golden Youth”. The most terrible test for Dmitry was the first appearance in the image of Putin in front of the president himself. Fortunately, Vladimir Vladimirovich himself has a wonderful sense of humor and appreciated Grachev’s parody.
After graduating from MGIMO, Dmitry worked for six months at the Ministry of Transport, and then moved to the press service of a large bank. At that time, the Comedy Club had just appeared on the TNT channel and one of the authors of this project was Anatoly Burnosov, a close friend of Grachev from KVN. He advised Dmitry to try his hand at a new show.
At first, the banker-comedian wrote jokes and humorous tales for the Comedy Club in the company of Garik Martirosyan, and soon became a full-fledged resident of the popular TV show. With his direct participation, the “Made in Woman” project was born, later renamed Comedy Woman.
Filmmakers couldn't help but notice the unusual actor. In the company of former KVN players, he starred in the comedy “Mugs”, and also played Putin in the sketch show on the NTV channel “Yes, Mr. President” and the 5th season of the series “Real Boys”.
Grachev’s participation in the cult film “Duhless” with Danila Kozlovsky in the title role did not go unnoticed.
Comedy club Putin, Merkel and Kim Jong-un
Text and words of the comedy parody: “Kim, Merkel and Putin”
— Dear viewers, let’s move on to the next international summit
[ Kim Jong-un ]: *inaudible* - in pseudo-Korean.
[ Putin ]: Yes, that's enough, thank you. We would like to be left alone with Mr. Kim Jong-un.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: *inaudible* - in pseudo-Korean. / *spits* / Vladimir Vladimirovich, I can’t do this anymore! Well, it’s true, I understand that the Russian special services are the best in the world and everything is going on, that we are everywhere and that we are on a special mission, that I must be the leader of North Korea, this is my duty to Russia, I understand all this! But listen, I'm a grown man, I'm 62 years old, and I have to play a 33-year-old. With this idiotic hairstyle, in this idiotic jacket. Well, the whole world is laughing at the blast furnace, Vladimir Vladimirovich, do you understand? Well, change my assignment, please, can I go to some other country, I don’t know, Cambodia or South Africa?
[ Putin ]: Yuri Borisovich, just be patient. This is in the interests of our country, what are you talking about?!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Vladimir Vladimirovich, it’s boring there, you understand, it’s very boring there. There you turn on the TV, there they only show me around the clock.
[ Putin ]: Yes, I understand about TV...
[ Kim Jong-un ]: And this language: *inaudible* - in pseudo-Korean. / This is just some nonsense, I say this nonsense myself. They learned what I say, understand?! I’m just talking nonsense: *inaudible*, and they: *inaudible*. It's just some kind of nonsense. And then they say: “North Korea is a backward country” - this is because I don’t know the language!
Yesterday, then, I went out and at the meeting I said: *inaudible* - in pseudo-Korean, and they all: *inaudible* - in pseudo-Korean, I see that they are already sending missiles towards the United States.
Why me at all?! Vladimir Vladimirovich, why me?! I come from a good family, Moscow. I graduated from MGIMO, well, look what I’m doing there: I’m shooting at a tank with a bazooka, here I’m shooting at an armored personnel carrier with a bazooka, here I’m shooting at a bicycle with a bazooka. Well, send me a new bazooka or something new to shoot at. I don’t know, I really have nothing to do...
[ Putin ]: Yuri Borisovich, dear, just be patient, pull yourself together. Our summit continues, now we have a meeting with Angela Merkel.
*exit Angela Merkel*
[Merkel
]: Guten tag har Eun! Guten tag Mr. Putin.
[ Putin ]: Okay, Grigory Pavlovich, leave it, everyone is here.
[Merkel
]: Vladimir Vladimirovich, of course I understand everything, but this is too much, really. You understand, I’m an adult, after all, I’m a man.
[ Putin ]: Yes, you never managed to hide it.
[Merkel
]: I’m a GRU colonel, and I have to wear *ostentatiously* this is all. You see, this is the edge, this is already the edge!
[ Putin ]: No! Germany is not our region yet, so you need to work on it.
[Merkel
]: You understand, well, this is impossible, well, simply impossible...
*Kim Jong-un intervenes*
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Is it impossible for you? Is it impossible in Germany?! Live in North Korea! It’s impossible for her.. Do you know what I’m eating there?! Burgers, steaks, tiramisu, carpaccio...
[Merkel
]: This is good food!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: It's all made from rice!
[Merkel
]: Life is bad for him in Korea... You just haven’t been to Germany yet, I have Arabs there, I have Trump’s wiretapping everywhere, I tore all my tights on his bugs under the table.. And gays?! And gays?! Can you imagine how they infuriate me, these gays! They change into women's clothes and walk as if this is how it should be... Okay, I'm on work! Do you understand how difficult it is to walk around Germany with sour bread on May 9th?
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Hah, look at my slurp!
My real wife, Tamara, comes to see me once every year and a half, you know?! Under the guise of a journalist! One little interview in my mouth and that’s it, I went home, you know?! One little interview! For a mature man, is this normal in your opinion?!
[ Putin ]: That’s it, Grigory Pavlovich, Yuri Borisovich, you don’t understand at all that the work of Angela Merkel and Kim Jong-un is not the worst in the world. We have one agent in the Congo running around naked and saying that he is a leader and a happy man.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Listen, well, Atosh Karapetovich at least in his own environment.
[Merkel
]: Vladimir Vladimirovich, please tell us, just tell us where, in what countries, instead of presidents, our agents sit, so that we know.
[ Putin ]: Well, look, this is ours and this one, this one is also ours, and this one.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: It turns out that we have a majority in the G7?
[ Putin ]: Well, yes. That's why I don't go there. Oh, this one, by the way, is also ours.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Come on?!
[ Putin ]: Seriously.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: What in the Vatican is also ours?
[ Putin ]: Yes, but you don’t recognize it?! We studied together in our third year at intelligence school. This is Tolik, we also teased him “Tolik the Catholic”, it came true...
In general, colleagues, I heard you, but let us return to the most important thing - why I gathered you here. We need to do something that the United States of America does not expect at all, to knock the ground out from under our feet. You two need to get married.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: That is. How is it to get married?!
[ Putin ]: Yes, just like that... Have you watched “Game of Thrones”?
[Merkel
]: Wait, I can't marry him. Firstly, I’m married, Secondly, I’m married!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Excuse me, but where will we live?! If in Germany, I agree.
[Merkel
]: What do you agree with, huh?!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Shut up woman!
[Merkel
]: I am not a woman!
[ Putin ]: Listen, not in sports, we may create a new country for you.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: *Huh* And what will it be called?! - Pocket?! - Northern Hermea?!
[Merkel
]: No, of course I understand everything, but how do we tell the public about this? How could such a relationship even begin?
[ Putin ]: Listen, what is there to explain?! Summit - our eyes met, a spark appeared...
[Merkel
]: Well, everything can’t be abrupt and unexpected.
[ Putin ]: This is another important point. In what case do a man and a woman suddenly get married?!
[Merkel
]: No!
[ Putin ]: Yes, Grigory Pavlovich.
[Merkel
]: I don't want a child from this doughy dictator!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: That is, twenty-five million six hundred forty-five thousand two hundred thirty-two people want a child from me, but this one doesn’t want it.. Well done!
I don’t know, it’s still somehow strange. From the outside it will seem that I am caring for my grandmother so that she can write Germany back to me.
[Merkel
]: No, no, no, I don’t want to marry him, you know, Asian men have small pussies, you know?! It is so small that even some German women have larger pussies.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: And I don't want to marry her. Marry a woman who has more pussies than me. Vladimir Vladimirovich, please, this is somehow not Christian or something.
[ Putin ]: Okay, okay, agreed. In this case, you will have to remain in your positions for one more term.
[Merkel
]: Yes, at least two!
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Yes, at least two!
[ Putin ]: *addressing Merkel* then you continue to pretend that you rule Europe, and you *addressing Kim Jong-un* continue to scare the United States with your bomb. Only Yuri Borisovich, you cover it from the rain, the cardboard swells from the water.
[ Kim Jong-un ]: Yes, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Fine!
*voice from behind the scenes*
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“When Medvedev comes to Putin”: After the scandal with the Cossacks, we remember what was cut from Comedy
officially apologized to the Supreme Ataman of the Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and Abroad (SKVRiZ) Nikolai Dyakonov for the impudent joke of one of its members about the Cossacks.
We are talking about a monologue in which daring words about “father and mother” were heard. These words were spoken by stand-up comedian Andrei Beburishvili, widely known among television viewers, performing in the image of the “glamorous handsome man” Paco.
As the Supreme Ataman himself explained in a conversation with Constantinople, he could not attribute what the young man said to humor. Tsargrad previously talked with KVN players and members of the Comedy Club, clarifying whether there were incidents with censorship in the show. It turned out that this happened, but comedians are completely calm about this. After all, Comedy Club is a private show. So why not dictate your own rules? On the other hand, according to one of our interlocutors, KVN turned out to be a freer format for him, where there were no prohibitions.
The captain of the team “Team of St. Petersburg”, Russian TV presenter and actor Viktor Vasiliev, gave a comment to Constantinople. We asked if their time on television was any different from today - was there something in KVN that was possible then, but is banned now?
“No, that doesn’t happen. In KVN, everything that was possible is always possible now. Nothing changes. If you mean TV. Another thing is that now there is as much uncensored Internet as you want,” Vasiliev noted.
In the case of their team, offhand he could not remember the jokes that they asked him not to say. However, he noted that sometimes something is heard from the stage, but then does not go on air. Moreover, it is unclear at what stage exactly what was said is cut off. Vasiliev doubts that “they are calling from above.” There is probably some kind of internal censorship of channels.
“At Comedy, numbers used to go straight away, but, as I understand it, they had their own censorship - not something that reached the top. In general, I think that he doesn’t see anything and doesn’t know, if we’re talking about Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin - Ed.), it doesn’t reach him.”
In conclusion, Vasiliev still remembered the number cut out in his career. It was a sketch on the New Year's broadcast at the Comedy Club.
“New Year’s Eve... When Medvedev comes to Putin. I think we even showed it on stage, but it wasn’t on air. It seemed to me that it was funny, funny... clowning. There was a whole room there. Timur Batrutdinov played Putin, I played Medvedev. Funny. When Santa Claus comes, there is Red Square, blast furnace lights, apartment number two, he came to Medvedev or to Putin...”
We assumed that perhaps the act remained on the Internet, since it was allowed on stage. Vasiliev replied that he did not know whether he remained. He also added that perhaps the scene simply did not pass the final editing by Garik Martirosyan. This might be an option...
