Yakov: Live From Branson

Yakov: Live From Branson DVD VIDEO COMEDY classic russian comic stand-up culture Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Yakov Smirnoff Media: DVD YAKOV: LIVE FROM BRANSON"The comrade funny!" -Los Angeles TimesYakov Naumovich Pokhis (Russian: Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff (/ˈsmɪərnɒf/), is a Soviet-born American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Ukraine, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle What a Country!. His comic persona was of a naive immigrant from the Soviet Union who was perpetually confused and delighted by life in the United States. His humor combined a mockery of life under communism and of consumerism in the United States, as well as word play caused by misunderstanding of American phr