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Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
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| Birth: | 24th January, 1951 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Comedian |
About
Yakov "Soviet Russia" Smirnoff is a comedian who emigrated to America from the USSR. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States, delivered in heavily accented English.
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