From Russia with Laughs, Yakov Smirnoff at Dangerfield’s (1984)

[@legmaker50]

He was on the Tonight Show years ago and he did a joke that really poked fun at the KGB. When he sat with Carson, Johnny asked him if he could tell that joke on stage in Russia. His reply was yes......one time.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

you’d go out with a bang…from a gun

[@abc-gi3oj]

He was making silly jokes about people in Russia. Idiot!

[@utvpoop]

"For once, all of the mushrooms are edible", we say in Russia

[@darringardiner9066]

@@utvpoop Actually it translates to something more like "all mushrooms are edible, but some only once".

[@jeanninem8227]

I was living in [West]Germany, before and during the Wall getting knocked down. But I had found this book at a Grmn store in English and it was Yakov Smirnoff... at ugh laying in bed reading 1st 2 chapters and I was trying to not laugh so hard, my husband finally says...get out of bed and go read that in the Living Room. I was up ALL night Laughing SO hard...the book was really funny 🤣. Especially when he's seeing all the sanitary napkins, New Freedom, Maximum Freedom, Stay Free...Ohhh man, I lost it!!! 😂😂😂 When we got back to the States I saw how popular he had become. I was Really surprised and impressed with him. I loved this guys since 1988.❤

[@not.supermario]

He's definitely a funny guy. And also a very patriotic one. I remember when he was featured in Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy and he showed a huge painting he did shortly after 9/11. He is proud to be an American. "What a country!"

[@netfalsifikaciiistorii]

Смотрю и пересматриваю все эти немногочисленные кинофильмы с Родни...

[@thehighhopes5336]

He's still in Vegas doing the same jokes. What a country.

[@ianrocco8453]

I'd still pay to see him live.

[@92GreyBlue]

GOOD FOR HIM I'M GLAD THAT THE NEW GENERATIONS GET TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY THAT PREVIOUS GENERATIONS GOT TO

[@HariSeldon913]

I thought he was in Branson, MO.

[@MJW238]

No, he was in Branson, Missouri doing it. And stopped in 2015.

[@daniilzadorozhnyy8950]

@@HariSeldon913 no thats Bronson Missouri

[@FerretPirate]

35 years later and his stuff's still funny.

[@Bikewithlove]

Because it’s happening here. 1:56

[@ivog443]

This video is dedicated to Bobby Hill

[@ROGER2095]

I'll tell you what.

[@allexojeda91]

That boy ain't right

[@ianpavelko3827]

In America, you put "In God We Trust" on your money. In Russia, we have no money.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

THAT'S MY PURSE!!! I DON'T KNOW YOU!!!

[@mr.intensity2685]

This Dangerfield special had it all! First time I saw any of these people, including Sam Kinison. In the opening credits, Sam rolls up in a taxi, gets out and screams, "Why me? AHHHHH!" Also the first time I saw Bob Saget from Full House.

[@naturesfinest4871]

Bob Saget's standup was phenomenal.

[@richardgalli7262]

I use to have the whole special on VHS but lost it long ago. I never laughed so hard!

[@HariSeldon913]

He did some charity show I saw a while back and one of the other comedians was Henny Youngman. Youngman did his signature, "Take my wife.....please" jokes and Smirnov followed right behind with the, "In Russia if you say Take my wife please, you get home and she's gone."

[@thedivineenergy]

*I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.* *Therefore laughter is the shortest distance between two people.* *- Yakov Smirnoff*

[@nelsontoondrawer7618]

divineenergy ... Divine Energy is Heavenly love. 😀 💝

[@thedivineenergy]

😘

[@RuiChui]

Excellent quote! And I believe it to be true.

[@AndrewParente09]

2019! this guys funny! never seen his standup before

[@gabe_s_videos]

"Russian Express: Don't Leave Home." XD

[@bazcuda]

When I was boy in Russia we had two TV channels: Channel 1 was state propaganda channel; Channel 2 was public broadcast channel. You turn to Channel 2 and was just KGB officer saying, "Turn back to Channel 1". - Yakov Smirnoff 40 years I've remembered that joke😂

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Nice delivery 👌 👏 terrific comedian

[@stormydavis8546]

Yakov is still one of my favorites, I go see his show in Branson, still very funny!

[@allexojeda91]

Is that a king of the hill reference?

[@arthurshmukler4868]

Seinfeld with an accent.

[@InkaPley]

Классно. ❤❤ всегда рада видеть своего человека 😊

[@kennycybertron1]

He's not dead...he has a huge dinner comedy theater in Branson Missouri, opened in 1992. He has had more than 4 million dinner guests come see his shows. He was hilarious on the comedy tv show NIGHT COURT.

[@vinyltapelover]

kennycybertron1 Just binged watch Night Court, including the episodes he was in. Great seeing him again, even in reruns. Then I thought to see if he had any vids on y.t.

[@ThreeOfKlubs]

This is a nice tape here.

[@kevinmcdonald951]

Rodney was a saint.

[@vestibulate]

He was always headed for Branson. What a country!

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Sascha baron cohen owes yakov a massive debt of gratitude bc he basically took yakovs real life personality and tweaked it a tiny bit to create borat...who was hilarious for sure...but an obvious ripoff and affectation of yakovs act.

[@RayRae559]

Well that's a bold claim

[@horsthorstens3056]

I thought the same, but let‘s see it as a hommage

[@mikecagle984]

This guy is truly funny!

[@jeffmiller9798]

I remember when I watched this on HBO.

[@davidjames1684]

Very good act.

[@RedCommando1084]

I like how with the joke at 1:26 you can tell it took a while for the audience to get the punchline.

[@jacksagrafsky4936]

Was very popular before the USSR split up. Haven't heard Yakov in several decades. He is funny and can do his act without being BLUE.

[@jamesd.6979]

You don't like comics that work blue?

[@opaljk4835]

Ugh you’re one of those people

[@nickgoldring1446]

​@@jamesd.6979 S'matter with that? Blue is so played by now.

[@jamesd.6979]

@@nickgoldring1446 Never said there was anything wrong with it. I was just surprised as you don't hear many people express that opinion these days.

[@nickgoldring1446]

@@jamesd.6979 Sorry, I missed your point.

[@ewilliamson488]

That was cute: New Freedom in a box.

[@marcianpetrescu]

exceptional

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

There was an actual department of jokes.

[@BLAB-it5un]

Saw this back when it first aired when Russia and USSR meant the same thing even though this wasn't ever really true. Sadly this guy is from Ukraine and not only had to say Russia back then but of course his homeland was a soviet satellite that Russia is trying to take back. Also sad to realize in 1984 most Americans would not have known Ukraine existed at all much less should have been an independent country. And of course he took a recognizable Russian stage name - Smirnoff - rather than use his family name. But hats off to him - he earned a PhD in psychology in his 60s.

[@lights6833]

Great comedian. Clean comedy, funny stuff.

[@mikroskosmos5315]

Yakov is kind of like an OG Borat.

[@zach415]

If anything those napkins are super absorbent 😂

[@joshdyer7850]

Childhood memories 😂😂

[@KairuHakubi]

"i want to explain you what happened to that airplane" funny how that never stops being relevant.

[@voidofbeeswax]

In Russia we used to make fun of Cleveland.

[@bull419]

Very funny.!!!

[@nelsontoondrawer7618]

I lived in Brighton Beach for a while. Place is full of Russians. I was waxing my car on the street. Guy walks up yelling in Russian waving his arms. I felt like a gringo in Hialeah. "Sorry, but I don't speak your language,"I said. "You make car look brand new." Now, I felt I was in a TV commercial as I held the product to my face, I exclaim: "It's Turtle Wax!" 😀

[@Rebar77_real]

He must have thought you were pretty mean for crushing up all those poor turtles, haha!

[@Jabberwockybird]

In Mother Russia, misunderstanding about maxi pads purchases you

[@skylineXpert]

Started thinking of him nowadays. 2022 need jokes

[@gamernoe]

Check out a new your moms house interview with him so amazing

[@alevtinaalevtina8156]

Never saw his show on Tv in USSR

[@oemca1919]

I don’t think he had a show in Russia. I heard he worked as a comedian on a cruise ship.

[@alevtinaalevtina8156]

@@oemca1919 Maybe because I haven't even heard such a name. We in the USSR knew all our artists.

[@alevtinaalevtina8156]

"Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Ukraine, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 ." Well, now it's clear. He was not a star, he just performed somewhere in Ukraine. Jewish with Russian " Smirnov" as a pseudonym.

[@BLURby84]

Funny guy

[@Jch79]

I didn't watch the entire series of "The Americans", but if they didn't show Elizabeth and Phillip reacting to this guy on TV in the 80's then they missed a huge opportunity for a joke on that show.

[@whiteninjaplus5]

Good shit

[@20alphabet]

Not so sure about the "good" part.

[@whiteninjaplus5]

@@20alphabet where any of the jokes too complicated for you I can try my best to explain them if you need help

[@20alphabet]

@@whiteninjaplus5 What's to explain? Here, you brush your teeth... In Russia your teeth brush you. Here, you hunt for bear... In Russia the bear hunts you. Blah-blah-blah... blah-blah-blah. Among the most unfunny guys on the planet.

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

@@20alphabet Apparently, we now know why you should know.

[@nickgoldring1446]

Brings Victor Borge to mind. (Parallel)

[@ranchurdhimster4955]

This is funny

[@RichardGoldwaterMD]

waddever happin' to him?

[@motownstickman8959]

I feel like Seth Mcfarlane watched this show at the same time I did. And ALSO memorized it.

[@BobbySacamano]

Ben Stiller nailed it.

[@SeifertToddM]

I sure miss comedy.

[@caesar349]

Me too. Comedy as we knew it is dead.

[@JakiCurevi]

Heard of him in family guy

[@avisco01]

I prefer Yakoff Ciroc.

[@lblst-kv5ii]

Why this sound like what Germany doing now to protests or any free anti establishment BS

[@stevennajar5368]

😂😂😂😂

[@doctorbohr1585]

Bro predicted cancel-culture 40 years early.

[@tmc200527]

I'm not a lawyer but that seems like a verbal contractual agreement Chelsea Handler just made. I hope she has someone to help her move her stuff. I couldn't remember her name so I searched white female comedian. Still didn't get anything. Took me awhile.

[@jessejimenez5605]

So this is how Borat was developed. His estate should sue.

[@russell2952]

He hired other comedians to write for him

[@xpkareem]

In Soviet Russia, you make the jokes laugh.

[@Centermass762]

Sha sha shaaaa! Save your "sweet guy" act for the tourists, Nikolai. The CIA will be here momentarily. I called them during the Statue of Liberty dance number.

[@mil-fpv4931]

35 years later and everybody is wearing a sanitary napkin on their face.

[@Jabberwockybird]

They all think that's what freedom of speech is

[@krankyjsmith9780]

How things change. In Russia American leftists come to Soviet Union, now Soviet Union come to American leftists.

[@ColonelStraker]

4:52 Yaakov would be very said in the US now, 2021, with the miscreants who are steering it into the ground.

[@sajiddadabhoy1251]

Sounds like freedom - Russia, that is.

[@yell0wberry]

I still think that Ivan Drago would have brought the house down

[@Mario_N64]

By the late 80s, he was exaggerating his Russian accent way too much.

[@markc7841]

Borats dad

[@anthonyhorner4023]

6:03 Ahhh s***

[@LocalVeteransOnlyNoShoobies]

giving Borat

[@Firzj]

Как его не шотнули в совке после таких шуток 🤔

[@massapower]

This is comedy BaBy 😁👍🏻 I swear the majority of comedy has no substance, just BLAH, BLAH, BLAH or crowd work !😏👎

[@jekblom123]

I bet he learned English and just saw all these funny inconsistencies and made a bunch of jokes about them. A lot of these just write themselves.

[@BLURAPTORBRO]

Today’s PC culture would utterly destroy this guys career... then laugh laugh laugh...

[@whiskeycan529]

For what? I didn't hear anything in this act that would bother anyone. The red scare stuff is kinda dumb but I don't think anyone would really care. He's funny.

[@opaljk4835]

Zxy Abc yeah, people just say this under every Stand up video even if it came out last year

[@hamasaken]

funny guy but he uses that coldturkey joke

[@walterspence4370]

Why don't you get off stage...

[@chefpaul7518]

Professor Dumbledore has a comedy routine??

[@davidbell8794]

Trump

[@bobodean1]

I cant believe anyobe thinks this guy was even a little funny

[@KarlHamilton]

Tell us a joke then.

[@JD-jc8gp]

His accent is so fake, lol.

[@ekklesiast]

really? i don't think you realize how hard it is for a foreigner to speak without an accent

[@JD-jc8gp]

@@ekklesiast as an immigrant, I would know better than anyone else. i'm sure that sminoff had an accent, but he clearly invented the accent used in his act to fit a certain Western stereotype.