Grischuk: "I might need a psychiatric test." (Andrey trying not to laugh)

Alexander Grischuk makes Andrey Esipenko laugh with his comedy lines during a chess interview, inferring that he might need psychiatric testing after that game. Grischuk does it again. And Andrey's attempts to conceal his laughter is priceless. Two chess kings in their element entertaining us all.

[@RandomChessTalk]

I wish Grischuk and Dubov run a chess podcast together.

[@kotenkonikita]

It only exists for Russian

[@pvjyash3563]

Grischuk and Giri

[@strawmoon9963]

Yeah they actually did on some Russian streams

[@drpuneetuyalimath5731]

Yessssss we need it 😂

[@kamilasominka9567]

Me too🫨

[@jal2550]

Andrey is ridiculously adorable In every possible way

[@Philippecastro427]

He's oddly handsome

[@zogzog1063]

Yes! There is a lot of attention on Indian Wunderkinds but Andrey for me!

[@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos]

@@zogzog1063 neither him or indians really matter as abdusattarov is going to be the next WC

[@pritamdas5439]

India gonna dominate the chess world 🔥. LoL soon the broke virgin haters of India will stop watching chess. Reply and let me know you are a broke virgin.

[@v.k.sharma9240]

​@@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideoslol he has lot to improve yet, alireza and gukesh are in their way to championship

[@NJC2874]

Grischuk is really funny when he talks english. In Russia, telling a Russian that he needs a psychiatre is like degrading him into an abnormal person. So when Grischuk says that he himself needs a psychiatre, it means that he wanted to make fun of himself, on purpose, just to spread positive vibes. Even Andrey Esipenko couldn't hold himself from laughing 🤣

[@tessalexander4569]

just to be clear, in most contexts telling an english speaker that they need a psychiatrist is also an insult 😅

[@ikkarezlet1922]

​@@tessalexander4569lol I was wondering the same

[@johnbowman3630]

Dunno what you're on about, Russian humor (and Russians in general) are _very_ self-deprecating.

[@unfixablegop]

With Esipenko as audience, Grischuk is motivated to answer well.

[@bn3121]

One interesting thing about this joke is that it is funnier from a Russian persepctive. In Russian, both "ПЦР тест" [PCR covid test] and "психиатрический" [psychiatric] have a hard, spoken "p" sound at the beginning. Whereas in English, the "p" in "psychiatric" is silent, so Grischuk is technically mispronouncing the English word, but he is doing it in a way that makes the joke better :) Note: I am not a Russian speaker so please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this!!!

[@rokizo]

Yeah, you got the point. You are correct.

[@SaintD382]

If this person is not a Russian speaker, I wonder how they are explaining about the pronunciation of Russian words.

[@vestre9619]

​@@SaintD382because all slavic languages pronounce the "p"

[@artennsa6899]

Wow, you are very good at russian

[@YogaMusicChessAcademy_YMCA]

For some weird reason, I have a fascination to watch videos where people are trying to hold their outburst and laughter! LOL.

[@niagra898]

Grischuk is a madman 😂

[@shantiswaroopgupta4936]

with him you know something is coming , but you don't fucking expect it.

[@MChess288]

gotta love's Grischuk's accent. Sounds almost like Levy's when he's winning 😂

[@martathequeenbm3196]

hahahhahahahahaha that's why we love Grischuk

[@teachPeace2-sx8gr]

This was funny 😂😂😂, in real-time

[@martinwatson4659]

Grischuk is a really funny bloke.

[@sergeymaslow9403]

He reminds me of Jim from Office series :)))

[@BazzoMusic]

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[@srikrishnarr6553]

*good*

[@FM-ft8pe]

😁😂

[@Corteum]

Thug lyfe!

[@sergeyilyukhin1570]

Mr Mutko from the world of chess

[@ttul-vy7ns]

Except can speak good English

[@wolfgangwiesinger9502]

They still need pcr tests?

[@foobar5809]

it was last year, this is a repost at least a good repost :)

[@wolfgangwiesinger9502]

@@foobar5809 ok 🌞

[@stepanhrbek8151]

:D

[@nazarovolgert6635]

А что у Грищука волосы как у бомжа?

[@sikasyan]

Да он почти всегда выглядит как бомж посреди запоя. Такой вот человек) А Дубов вон в половине случаев как будто накуренный.

[@neville-mladen9393]

so good

[@kristofs8893]

Without you we wouldn't be able to read facial expressions and identify "human" social interactions.