Yakov Smirnoff - What A Country 1994

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Yakov Smirnoff	Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (Russian: Яков Наумович Похис, Ukrainian: Яків Наумович Похис)	Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Jan 24 1951 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Yakov Smirnoff 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. He has a theatre in Branson, Missouri, where he performs year-round. Yakov is also a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University where he teaches "The Business of Laughter."

Smirnoff was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He is of Jewish descent. He was an art teacher in Odessa and continues to paint. He came to the United States in 1977 and became an American citizen on 4 July 1986. Smirnoff spent a portion of his early days in the United States working as a bartender at Grossingers Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York and living in the employee dormitory. Source: Wikipedia (excerpts)

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