Russian comedy and humour Russian comedy and humour Chastushka (часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme. Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment. The rigid, short structure (and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor used) parallels limericks in British culture. The name originates from the Russian word части́ть, to speak fast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chastushka"
Heart of a Dog ( Russian: Со`бачье `сердце, pronounced 'so-bah-tchye ser-tse') is a 1925 story by Mikhail Bulgakov. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heart of a Dog"
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg, 1897- 1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev or Katayev, 1903- 1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They became extremely popular for two their satirical novels: The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев) (1928) and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf (Золотой теленок) (1931). The two texts are connected by their main character, a con man Ostap Bender out in pursuit of elusive riches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ilf and Petrov"
Krokodil (i.e., Crocodile) was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At these times a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza, Prozhektor. Nearly all of them eventually diappeared. ...more on Wikipedia about "Krokodil"
KVN ( , an abbreviation of , Klub Vesyolykh i Nakhodchivykh", "Club of the cheerful and sharp-witted" people) is a Russian humor TV show where Russian student teams fight by funny answering to questions, improvisations, prepared sketches. The program has been aired by Channel One since 1961. Seven years later, when a few programs were being translated live, Soviet censors found student impromptu jokes offensively anti-Soviet and banned the KVN for fourteen years. The show was revived during the Perestroika, in 1988, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running programs on Russian TV. ...more on Wikipedia about "KVN"
Moscow-Petushki, or Moscow to the End of the Line, is a semi-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev ( Венедикт Ерофеев). Written between 1969 and 1970 and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in 1973 in Israel and later, in 1977, in Paris. Because of the book's obvious political and social satire, it was published in the Soviet Union only in 1989, during the perestroika era of Russian history, in a literary almanac Vest' and in the magazine Abstinence and Culture (Trezvost i Kultura), slightly abridged. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moscow-Petushki"
Ostap Bender ( Russian: Остап Бендер) is a misanthropic con man and comic hero in the novel The Twelve Chairs (January 1928 - Russian: "Двенадцать стульев"), written by Russian writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Ostap Bender searches in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy era in order to find a diamond treasure which was hidden into one of twelve chairs. He was killed at the end of the novel because his partner, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobianinov, did not want to share the treasure which seemed within reach. The name "Ostap Bender" became an archetypal name for a con man in Russian language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ostap Bender"
Radio Yerevan, or Armenian Radio jokes were very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex- Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Radio Yerevan"
Rayok literally means "small paradise" in Russian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rayok"
Rayok (opus 78B, also known as Anti-formalist Rayok, Little Paradise, The Peep-show (see rayok), The Gods and A Learner's Manual) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. Its title derives from Mussorgsky's work of the same name. It ridicules the Zhdanov decree of 1948 and the anti-formalism campaign in Soviet arts which followed it, and includes quotations from speeches by Zhdanov and a quotation from Suliko ( Stalin's favourite song). ...more on Wikipedia about "Rayok (Shostakovich)"
Russian humour gains much of its wit from the great flexibility and richness of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. As with any other nation, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and silly wordplay to political satire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russian humour"
Russian jokes or anekdoty ( Russian: анекдо́ты), the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots. Russians love jokes on topics found everywhere in the world, be it sex, politics, spouse relations, or mothers-in-law. This article discusses Russian joke subjects that are peculiar to Russian or Soviet culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Russian jokes"
The Little Golden Calf ( ) (1931) is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov q.v. Its hero, Ostap Bender appeared in the previous novel of the authors, The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the " Golden calf" expression. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Little Golden Calf"
The Master and Margarita ( ) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Many people consider the book to be one of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century – and one of the most humorous. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Master and Margarita" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia
The Twelve Chairs ( ) (1928) is a famous satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. Its hero, Ostap Bender reappears in the book's sequel, The Little Golden Calf. The original book was made into a Mel Brooks film titled, The Twelve Chairs ( 1970), and also provided the basis for the film The Thirteen Chairs ( 1969). Shortly after that, it was filmed in the USSR twice: first time in 1971 by Leonid Gaidai and then in 1976 by Mark Zakharov, featuring Andrei Mironov as Bender. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Twelve Chairs"
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