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Open microphone guy without a hand. What Ukrainian stand-up comedians laugh at. Would you like to take the place of one of the jury members

realist talked with three comedians and found out if there are forbidden topics for jokes, is it possible to make money on laughter in Ukraine, and why stand-up is the most honest genre

Sergey Detkov, 24 years old, Kyiv

Anton Timoshenko, 22 years old, Kyiv

Nikita Nalivkin, 25 years old, Zaporozhye

About joke topics

Sergey Detkov

Some comedians think that if they say the word "f.a", everyone will immediately become funny. But actually it is not. Black humor is a very complex genre. Although, of course, there are people who have enough of “f ... s” or the series “Vitalka”.

Anton Timoshenko

We often joke about the same topics: sex, everyday life, gopniks. Some kind of silly joke. Of course, this can be made funny, but I did not notice any talented moves in creating jokes on such topics. I recently watched stand-up comedian Steven Wright. He has a joke that I remember for a long time. It's very original and one of my favorites. I have always admired such an extraordinary presentation of thought. The joke goes like this: “Somehow I came to the key master, gave him the key and said: This is a copy. I want the original."

Nikita Nalivkin

I like to joke on a variety of topics. In the course are extraordinary stories about homeless people, mass hysteria about likes on social networks. Every joke has relevance. It would seem that jokes about "Pokemon Go" were only fashionable, and today they are already an utter "button accordion" that causes irritation.

About forbidden topics

Sergey Detkov

Humor should not be taboo. About everything - about sex, death, about religion - you can joke subtly and funny. But such jokes must be verified, they have no right to fail. It's hard to do.

From birth, I don’t have one hand - I immediately realized that this would become my main topic. When you talk about your life, the viewer feels that you are not deceiving him. He's not stupid.

My first stand-up was very successful. People just didn't expect this. Every second comedian then talked about how a girl left him, or how he went for bread. What I said was very unexpected. I received a standing ovation. There has never been a better feeling in my life.

Thanks to stand-up, I finally got rid of the complexes. Before, when people came up to me and asked directly: “What’s wrong with your hand?” I didn’t answer anything, I got angry, nervous. But recently, in a bar in Odessa, a drunk dude approached me, asked for a cigarette and asked about my hand. I replied, "I just smoked a lot." He did not lag behind. Then I came up with a story: “I am a surfer, I participate in the Ukrainian surfing team. We were recently at a competition in New Zealand and a shark bit off my arm.” In general, I learned to respond to unceremonious people.

About the first steps

Anton Timoshenko

I also liked to joke at school. I often made fun of the teachers, and it was funny to everyone, of course, except for the teachers themselves. Thanks to school, I realized how cool it is when people laugh at your jokes. And I carried this love to the university, where I started playing KVN. Together with our classmates, we decided to assemble our team at the faculty. In the third year, we won the Rector's Cup. For the sake of this victory, I even sacrificed my work - and was not upset.

I decided to go further and came to stand-up. I came to the comic show "Make the Comedian Laugh" three times, the most successful was the third one, where I won 50 thousand hryvnias. Before that, I also went to the shooting, spoke to Vladimir Zelensky, but they didn’t show me on the air, because I “burned out” in the first minute - I was very worried and could not make me laugh.

Nikita Nalivkin

It all started from childhood. I was very fond of humor - from films with Jim Carrey to the program "Gorodok". Therefore, in his student years, he gladly responded to the predatory call of KVN. He pulled me in for seven years.

The biggest pride of the KVN past is the performance of my team in the second round of the International Festival of KVN teams in Sochi in 2013. We spoke to the guru himself - Alexander Maslyakov. It was exciting and awesome.

Two years ago, my friends at KVN and I decided that we needed to keep up with the times and start instilling the stand-up genre popular in the West and in the CIS in our native city. This is how the California comedy project appeared. The main difficulty was that all of us, both comedians and spectators, were absolutely not ready for this type of humor. Little was said about stand-up, and no one showed it.

It so happened that I was one of the first to stand up in Zaporozhye. The audience accustomed to KVN waited for the show, songs and dances, but received the revelations of one comedian without any third-party accompaniment. They needed to rebuild, as, indeed, did the comedian himself, who now had no teammates, music, props, cheerful scenery. On stage there is only him and his humor. Everything is honest and cool.

About the birth of jokes

Sergey Detkov

I wrote my first stand-up on the subway on the way home. He was about me. I threw out what was sitting in me, and about which I could not tell anyone. There are some things that you can’t confess to one person, but during stand-up you say them to the whole room. It's so weird, but so cool.

Anton Timoshenko

I'm often asked if it's hard to come up with jokes on your own. In fact, it is both difficult and easy. If you work in the mode “the muse came - wrote a joke, if it didn’t come - well, okay”, then you won’t go far with such a regime. For a long time I could not find my style. Therefore, he turned to specialized books for help, where professional comedians talk about the mechanisms for writing jokes using their own example.

Over time, I realized that there is no single formula for writing jokes. I can say for sure that you need to be an attentive person, notice some oddities in society, stereotypes and read a lot. Comedians are smart people, really. When you write often, there is a kind of intuitive ability to quickly find words with double meanings, jokes, puns or casus situations.

Nikita Nalivkin

There is nothing fun in the process of writing jokes. I write in a variety of places, the main thing is to switch to the wave of writing, to abstract from everything that is happening around. It is best written at night, although in the daytime the reprise is no, no, and it will come.

I read my “raw” monologues to my project colleagues, with whom we work in the mode of reading and editing. Then their final birth takes place: someone will correct, someone will supplement. Telling a girl, a mirror, cats is not my format.

A successful stand-up artist has four secrets: good writing, charisma, public relations skills, and experience. All this just allows you to put the puzzle together: therefore, some performances cause delight in the public, while others yawn.

About failures

Sergey Detkov

It is impossible to know in advance which jokes will work and which will not. Sometimes you read your stand-up to your friends and they say it's funny. And on the stage it turns out that not at all. But even the most unfunny material can be "sold" through presentation and your emotions.

Twice I had unsuccessful performances. The monologues were almost empty. In such cases, I always look for the cause in myself. So I was tense on stage. I was nervous and did not get high from the performance.

When you leave a pause for laughter, but it doesn’t happen, you want to quickly leave the stage, go home and say to yourself: “All this is sh... but. I will never do this again." But then you drink and think, “Well, nothing terrible happened. You can go back."

Nikita Nalivkin

I got a lot of cones. For example, the most elementary: it is not clear how to behave alone on stage, it is difficult to remember the amount of text, you get lost in the reaction from the audience. This already with experience comes the ability to witty and in the "topic" to respond to cries from the crowd, and then there was a stupor. It's good that my debut was difficult. This prompted me to move forward. He would have performed brilliantly - and rested on his laurels to this day.

Probably the most “inconvenient” thing for an artist is to forget the lyrics. But this is a stand-up - an honest genre, so you can not invent anything special and just take a few seconds from the audience to remember the forgotten reprise. But it is better, of course, to bring down without hesitation.

The reaction of the audience to the number is always a mystery. But I know one thing: if the audience is silent, then the comedian is not joking. Apparently, he has a bad day for a performance, he needs to go home and drink tea with cookies.

About money

Sergey Detkov

You can't make money with stand-up in Ukraine. Although in the West and even in Russia it is possible. We still rarely call stand-up artists for corporate parties or weddings. Although I don’t know how I would speak at a corporate party. It's one thing, corporate intellectuals. But some bank clerks would listen and think, “What is this? Let's go have a drink."

Anton Timoshenko

Everyone who begins to get involved in humor in our country understands that you won’t make much money on this. For example, in stand-up only a few can live on this. Approximately 3-4 stand-up artists can receive a salary of 7000 UAH. Others still have to work in parallel. Unfortunately, we still do not have demand for high-quality jokes, we are not ready to pay for them. Therefore, this is a rather risky road. You never know what to expect.

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Cartoons are an art form in which the author's hands are completely free, because you can depict absolutely anything and at the same time add a charming story. We invite you to watch them right now and get great pleasure.

Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov,

Producer of the show "Open Mic"

On January 27, a new original humorous talent show, Open Microphone, will begin on TNT. The participants of the project will be young (and not so young), unknown stand-up comedians who will fight for the opportunity to get into the main cast of one of the most popular comedy shows in Russia - Stand Up on TNT.

Elena Novikova, a 46-year-old woman with a wealth of life experience:

“My son is 16. And he is an elf. The elves are some kind of youth organization that is against the system ... and deodorant».

Despite the fact that many of the Open Mic participants have recently been doing stand-up, their performances will turn out to be unexpectedly funny, fresh and unlike the monologues of Stand Up comedians. Already after the qualifying round, it will become clear that newcomers can easily compete with masters in the stand-up genre and even pull the blanket of popularity over themselves. How real this threat is is for the Open Mic viewers to judge.

Creative producers of the show “Open Mic”: “All participants are ordinary people. Different age, sex, wealth. We have a lot of bright characters that the viewer is not used to seeing on TV. In each issue, we will show the stories of these people, their fate, tell the viewer how and why they do stand-up.”

Milo Edwards, an Englishman from London:

"Ifrom London, but a year ago he moved to live in Russia. Because I don't read the news».

Stand-up, in fact, is a “humorous striptease of the soul”, and in the “Open Microphone” their souls will be bared: a 46-year-old participant with a rich life experience; the guy who's been trying to get on TNT for the past five years; a real Englishman who moved to Russia; a former participant in the reality show "Dom-2", who met with Olga Buzova, and hundreds of talented comedians from all over the country.

In recent years, the stand-up genre has become very popular in Russia, each city has its own “open microphones” - parties where anyone can take the stage (with or without experience). Many novice comedians of this direction have long dreamed of performing in the “Open Microphone” section of the Stand Up show, but it is simply impossible to fit everyone into it. The new Open Microphone project will solve this problem: it will help novice comedians get on the air of TNT, gain vast experience in performing on a large television stage, become popular, successful and professional stand-up artists and, most importantly, make the whole country laugh!

Arsen Harutinyan, doctor:

“At the medical university, in my first year after a month of study, I went to the morgue, where I was asked to saw off the head of a woman’s corpse. And you knowit’s not that hard if you imagine that she was a bad person…”

The show will be hosted by the winner of the Comedy Battle, a resident of the Comedy Club, charming and cynical, daring and witty - Andrey Beburishvili.

Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov, producer of the Open Microphone show: “Andrey Beburishvili is one of the brightest representatives of the young generation of stand-up comedians. He is handsome, damn charming and good at improvisation. Why shouldn’t he become the new idol of TNT viewers?”

To be in the final and compete for a place in the ranks of the coolest comedians in the country, the participants of the Open Microphone show will have to overcome several stages:

Maxim Elombila, black stand-up comedian:

“Despite popular belief, where I come from, people don’t climb trees and wear normal clothes like you and me. It’s just that Krasnodar is a developed city.”

  • Team Selection

Aspiring comedians will perform in front of the jury with their stand-up. The participant goes to the team if he was chosen by at least one of the mentors. By the end of the stage, four teams of eight people will be formed, which will begin the fight for the main prize of the project.

  • duels

Participants will have to work with their mentors and write one new speech. In each program, two participants from each team will take the stage. As a result of the performance, the mentor will have to leave only one of them in the project.

  • Concerts

Each team is preparing a concert with the participation of all comedians. One issue - one concert of each team. At the end of the program, the mentor will choose who will leave the show.

  • semi-final

Comedians are fighting for the right to get into the finals of the Open Mic. As always, mentors help them prepare their performances. Two participants from each team advance to the final.

  • The final

Eight finalists will take to the legendary stage of the Stand Up project on TNT! Each comedian will perform their final performance. The jury members will jointly select the winner of the first season of the Open Microphone show and the new permanent comedian of the Stand Up project on TNT!

Sergey Detkov, a guy born with one arm:

“People want to know what’s wrong with me, but I put them on the wrong track - I tell them different versions, they say, a shark, a sawmill, I just didn’t like it».

Open Mic is not just another entertainment project, it is a social lift for comedians working in the most complex and frank humorous genre. Everything these guys talk about is based on their real life and experiences. And here there can be no forbidden topics or third-party editing - only the truth, only sharp jokes, only stand-up in the Open Microphone on TNT.

INTERVIEW WITH VYACHESLAV DUSMUKHAMETOV,

PRODUCER OF THE SHOW "OPEN MICROPHONE" ON TNT

Why did you decide to create an Open Mic show?

Open Mic is a show about the stand-up generation. Now this genre has become so popular that we do not fit in one program. The Stand Up show is on TNT with huge TV ratings, so it was decided to make another program. The TNT channel is famous for projects that seek talents in various genres across the country and beyond. And for that, a special thanks to him. Open Mic is another such project. Last year we held a Stand Up festival, which was attended by more than 600 people - and this is an impressive figure. There will be even more this year. It's inspiring.

Were you looking for participants for the first season at the festival?

Yes, there was an all-Russian festival, which was attended by a huge number of guys from Russia, and from the CIS countries, and from abroad. For example, a guy from the UK.

And the guy from the UK performs in English?

He specifically learned Russian to perform. Not perfect, of course, but it has a twist. In fact, a person from the homeland of stand-up came to us - this is very cool.

In the show "DANCES", the participants must not only be technical in choreography, but also have the charisma necessary for a television show. How are things going with Open Mic?

Ivan Ivanovich, English teacher:

“At the beginning of the school year, I was told that I had a mentally retarded student in my group. A year has passed - I still don't know who it is».

The most important thing in the DANCES project is that people dance well. Nobody talks about TV charisma, it's a competition of professional dancers. Of course, there are stories of participants, but first of all, I tell you, as the producer of the show "DANCES", we select participants in terms of dancing qualities. This is not a commercial project where you can come to the fore due to a strong story or a pretty appearance. The dancers would not understand us - and we respect the professional world very much. Accordingly, it’s the same in “Open Microphone”: if you have at least some kind of appearance, at least some kind of story - if you’re not funny, you don’t know how to bring down stand-up, competently own this genre, you won’t succeed in this show.

Roman Tretyakov, former participant in the reality show "Dom-2":

“I decided to get a second higher education in order to get rid of the stereotype that only stupid ones are filmed in Dom-2. Entered Moscow State University. And, you know, I really like to study there - there is a camera in every classroom.

What topics can comedians joke about at Open Mic? What is allowed, what is prohibited?

Nothing is forbidden, this is an open microphone - people, mostly young people, come here to speak out. This is what makes our project interesting - you can listen to what modern youth thinks about, hear a huge number of opinions.

How strong is the competitive element in the Open Mic show?

He is at the forefront.

Will it interfere with the comedians? Still, the stand-up genre does not imply competition ...

This is a millstone. You are mistaken that stand-up is not a competition. All comedians implicitly compete with each other - everyone wants to perform funnier, more relevant, sharper than others. The competitive moment is obligatory, because there will be a winner, there will be the main prize - participation in the main composition of the comedians of the Stand Up program on TNT. Some will say that this is wrong, but for me it is completely normal. This is an express training, you need to overcome all the trials very quickly and become the best.

Will there be some competitive element between coaches?

They are already such good, kind comrades and friends that their competitive moment is expressed only in joking with each other. But every coach cares about his team, and everyone wants to win – otherwise what is the competition for?

Should the residents of Russian cities hope that at the end of the project, the participants of the Open Microphone will come to them with concerts?

Alexander Golovko, who tried to get on the air of TNT for five years:

“I recently realized that all homeless people became homeless in winter. Otherwise, where do they get only warm clothes?”

I always hope that young stand-up comedians become experienced comedians and start making money with their work. But it seems to me that the audience themselves should come to our Stand Up festival, perform and get into the second season of the Open Microphone show. This is a faster way to see all the comedians in your immediate area than waiting for them in your city for a concert.

What is your personal attitude towards the Open Microphone project?

I'm enjoying this show. This amount of communication, different people and opinions is always interesting for me. The TNT channel is famous for discovering the stars. And we sit and watch it with great pleasure. It's creative, it's interesting, it's history. It's cool, no doubt!

MEMBERS OF THE JURY (THEY ARE TEAM MENTORS AND COACHES)

RUSLAN BELIY

- a clear, strict, fair member of the jury and a very tough mentor. The main thing in Ruslan's work is discipline.

YULIA AKHMEDOVA

- the only girl on the jury. He is very worried and supports all the speakers without exception. As a mentor, he cares for each of the team.

TIMUR KARGINOV

- he does not have a team, he has a party, as Timur himself says. Completely trusts his team. Leaves the final decision on the performance to the participants.

SLAVA KOMISSARENKO

- positive and open member of the jury. Fully immersed in team work.

What exactly is the role of a mentor? How do you help the participants - give a review of their material, break up jokes together, suggest topics for a speech?

Ruslan: For the most part, we just share our experience with the participants, nothing more. We don’t practice like at school, for example, because there is not a single person who could teach the stand-up genre. Each participant goes to the goal in a thorny way, by trial and error. And we, the mentors, just from the height of the experience that we have accumulated over five years of work, give some hints.

Julia: For me, stand-up is something deeply personal, so I try not to interfere too much in their work. But if you need advice, I'm always there. Sometimes participants need moral support much more than any "reviews".

Timur: In this show, for me, the status of a mentor has more than some nominal value. I, of course, suggest something to the participants, but with the proviso that they can listen, but it is their choice to do so or not to do so. I still try to have the last word with the guys. I don't play jokes with them. I try to inspire and encourage them.

Slava: I think that each mentor chose his own role. I tried not to indicate what to do, but to advise. That is, I did not say categorically: “Leave this, but remove this! You have to start with this joke, and finish with this one!” No, it was important for me not just to help, but to convey the idea that you need to take full responsibility for your performance as soon as possible. We sat down with a comedian and wrote jokes together, finished off already written dispersal, and then he himself collected his performance.

Have you ever helped your stand-up colleagues come up with speeches, give advice? How comfortable do you feel as a mentor?

Ruslan: When we just started doing the Stand Up show on TNT by our company, we all wrote material together. It was a very big job. But you can't say that we write jokes for each other. We disperse them with someone - yes. Moreover, this someone is constantly changing, because it is useful and interesting to work and write with different people. There is such a concept as comedy buddy (“gum comrade”), here it works well. As for the role of a mentor, this is my first experience. And I can't say that I'm very comfortable. After all, the main thing here is not to harm, not to interfere with your ideas, worldview. Each stand-up comedian should be individual in his work. And if I impose my comic matrix on everyone, then everyone will simply look alike. So our main task is not to push with experience, because young participants can just listen blindly. And I encourage my team members to be themselves.

Julia: Of course, my colleagues and I help each other, because we are not only colleagues, but also friends. And as a mentor, I don’t feel very comfortable, because I myself am still just a beginner comedian.

Timur: Yes, I had to. We have excellent humorous communication with colleagues. But it is in the role of a mentor, with the use of this word, that I do not feel very comfortable.

Slava: I really like to write with different people, because it always works better together. You suggested a call, they beat it off for you, you picked it up, and it turns out something that would be difficult to write alone. In addition, each comedian has his own view of the world and humor in general, so when you write with different people, you are sure to adopt something. I think that working together is useful for everyone: both for young comedians and for the mentors themselves.

Suppose one of the participants speaks smoothly - a few average jokes, good command of the material, and the second - with obvious failures, stammering, but with one killer joke that will tear the audience apart. Who do you prefer and why?

Ruslan: Of course, I will give preference to the first participant. Because one joke is not as valuable as an average but overall good performance. No stand-up comedian needs one good joke. There should be a lot of jokes, and performances should be good in general.

Julia: Stand-up is not measured by the number of jokes. It is personality, thought, drama and humour. And stammering or something like that doesn't qualify a stand-up comedian.

Timur: In fact, the hall decides everything. And his reaction is immediately visible. It doesn't matter here whether he stumbled or not. Personally, I prefer perspective.

Slava: Stand-up differs from all other humor in that, going on stage, the comedian already roughly understands what kind of material he has. Because first you write it, then you show it on open microphones, you remove what didn’t work out, what happened, you leave it and add on. The main work takes place not at the performance itself, but before it. It is difficult to imagine a situation when a comedian spoke unfunny at all open microphones, and then suddenly broke up on the set. But personally, I prefer comedians who are willing to work hard and hard than lazy geniuses with fleeting insights.

What is unique about the Open Microphone project? How is it different from the Stand Up show?

Ruslan: I think the audience should answer this question after the release of the project. And we, in turn, must see if the winner of the project can develop at a distance and work in such a difficult regime in which we work. And the main difference between the Open Microphone and the Stand Up show is the presence of a competitive motive. Although I do not welcome competition in humor. Because humor should be evaluated not by experts, but by the viewer, for whom this humor is designed.

Yuliya: "Open mic" is a competitive project in which stand-up comedians compete with each other to determine the strongest. The uniqueness of the project is that it will open new names and faces in this genre to the mass audience.

Timur: It is unique in that you can see new stand-up comedians in it. In addition, this is a competitive project, and this is its main difference from the Stand Up show, where comedians just perform.

Glory: "Open mic" allows young stand-up comedians to express themselves. Get broadcasts, start touring, make contacts with the same young and promising comedians from other cities, be in touch, help each other. In addition, participation in such projects perfectly keeps you in good shape, because you have specific deadlines for which you need to prepare a new performance. Nothing discourages a creative person like the lack of deadlines and intermediate tasks. The Open Mic has these tasks.

How will this show attract the attention of a sophisticated viewer?

Ruslan: New faces. Participants of the show "Open Microphone" have not yet appeared on television. And the new is always better than the good old.

Yuliya: "Open Mic" has replaced "Comedy Battle". Therefore, everyone who was interested in watching the competitions of comedians will also be interested in the new project. And for those who love the stand-up genre, it will be just interesting to see new faces.

Timur: Fresh humor and, of course, new faces, of which there are many in the Open Microphone show. The viewer will be tempted by humor.

Slava: This is a show where you can see not only a good, funny stand-up, but also a real struggle and everything connected with it. In the Stand Up show on TNT, the viewer sees the finished product, all our preparation remains behind the scenes. In the Open Mic show, the preparation process is given much more attention. There will be recordings from open microphones, rehearsals and analysis of performances with mentors.

Is it easy to determine when the material is based on the comedian's personal experience and when the situation is completely invented by the author? What is the difference?

Ruslan: It all depends on the professionalism of the comedian. Even a fictional situation can be told with such sincerity and one's own pain that it will be impossible to distinguish it from reality. But from experience I can say that good comedians do not invent a situation, but describe what happened to them. Or happened to their friends.

Julia: The stand-up genre involves performances based on the personal experiences of a comedian.

Timur: Yes, of course, this is immediately evident. In a fictional situation, somehow everything turns out to be funny by itself. I admit, I had a couple of such jokes.

Slava: Material based on personal experience will always look better. Of course, there are comedians with good, funny made-up jokes, but when you say some frank things that are backed up with humor, it catches you much more. And there will be some very outspoken comedians this season.

Is there a competitive spirit between mentors? How important is it to you whose comedian wins?

Ruslan: There is no competitive spirit. All mentors, as well as the participants themselves, are interested in seeing new faces appear in stand-up. To some extent, this will help us, the "oldies", to relax a bit and write a little less material. And this is important, because 5 years of writing material for the Stand Up show is a big race. I already want to take a breath. Of course, it's nice if your comedian performs better than others. But it is important for us that the winner is a really good comedian, and that we, the mentors, do not make a mistake in our choice.

Julia: It doesn't matter at all, because the show "Open Microphone" is not about mentors, but about comedians.

Timur: Personally, I do not compete with anyone. Maybe other mentors compete, I don't know. It is important for me that everything works out for those guys who are nice to me. At the same time, I sincerely root not only for the guys from my team, but also from the teams of Yulia, Ruslan and Slava.

Slava: Of course, every mentor wants a comedian from his team to win, but in the end the winner will get into our show - Stand Up on TNT, so every mentor is interested in the objectively best winner.

Interestingly, the participants competing with each other will be united in teams. How will the competitive principle get along with the team?

Ruslan: Stand-up is an individual genre, and this just wins. This is not a team competition, and our rules do not even provide for any sacrifices of individual performance for the sake of the team. So here everyone is fighting only for themselves. And that's the meaning of Open Mic. But at the same time, during the filming, the guys became friends, someone works together, even being members of different teams. This is also important, because the victory, as such, is not very important here, the "Open Microphone" gives the participants the opportunity to work in strict conditions of a compressed framework, to see who prepares their performances how.

Julia: It's hard to say. Stand-up is an individual genre, here it's every man for himself, so teaming up is rather arbitrary. Everyone has their own goals, objectives and path. So, of course, there is competition, but I think everyone competes with themselves.

Timur: I am generally against uniting in stand-up teams. Perhaps these are some creative coalitions. In general, teamwork in this genre loses its exclusivity, one might say, the personality of performances. Stand-up is still an individual genre.

Slava: It is better to ask the participants themselves. I advise my guys to work more together, help to finish each other jokes, or at least just consult. In the end, stand-up is a very long journey that does not end after one season of a TV show, so getting friends and like-minded people in the project is a very good idea.

What members would you like to see on your team? What qualities should a promising stand-up comedian dream of getting into the Stand Up show have? And who are you most interested in working with?

Ruslan: The main quality for a stand-up comedian is efficiency. He must write all the time, perform, have a desire to improve his material. Because writing five jokes and then performing with them for two years is not about a good comedian. Although this approach to stand-up also has the right to exist, but considering that we are doing a television show, and TV dictates certain rules (a lot of writing and giving out material for each release), it is more important a person who can work in such a rhythm.

Julia: There are no special qualities. We look at whether the comedian has a funny performance and whether the audience likes it. This is enough for us.

Timur: To be honest, I am guided by the sensations of "hooked" or not. That's all. My team consists of guys with very different humor - from non-standard to banal. But each of them has something to offer. I always immediately see whether this person is mine or not, on an intuitive level.

Slava: I don't think there is any ready-made recipe for how to become a good stand-up comedian. It seems to me that not only in stand-up, but in any other field, the components of success are approximately the same. The more you work, try, don't give up, look for something new, the more you will be rewarded for it. Personally, I prefer to work with enthusiastic people who are “burning” with stand-up, to some extent even a little turned on it. In such people, the inner fire may never go out.

In the Open Mic show, both beginners in the stand-up genre and comedians who have long been involved in this art will converge on the same arena. How important is the accumulated experience of speaking? Is there a chance for those who started doing stand-up quite recently?

Ruslan: Experience is certainly important. Each performance in front of the audience is a certain stress. And even with me, although I now feel more confident on stage, there is excitement. And when there is little experience, then there is a billion times more excitement. And this can play a cruel joke: you can forget the material, present it in the wrong way, give a joke in the wrong way. And the level of funny in this case may fall. An experienced comedian with average jokes will beat a young and inexperienced stand-up comedian with very funny jokes.

Julia: Of course, everyone always has a chance. But stage experience - the ability to stay on stage and own the audience - is very important.

Timur: Experience, of course, is important. The more experience, the more honed skills. Such people behave differently even on the stage. But everyone has a chance.

Slava: I would not say that there is such a big gap in skill or experience between the participants, everyone has a chance. Of course, for those who have just started stand-up, it will not be easy, but on the other hand, who knows what will happen.

The participant who wins the Open Microphone show will be included in the main cast of the Stand Up show on TNT. What will mentors get?

Ruslan: In general, we do not receive anything, and we should not receive anything, because this is a show for new comedians. And we, the mentors, are a kind of “wedding generals”. But in general, together with the Stand Up show, we win because we get new talented participants.

Julia: It is important for us that a new talented comedian comes to the Stand Up show. These are the mentors and they will receive in the end, this is the goal of the project and the personal goal of each of us.

Timur: Personally, I enjoy watching talented stand-up comedians perform.

Glory: I think the mentor of the winning comedian will at least get a sense of pride that it was the participant from his team who won the show. And so we all get the pleasure of good, high-quality humor.

LEADING SHOW "OPEN MICROPHONE"

ANDREY BEBURISHVILI - winner of the Comedy Battle show, resident of the Comedy Club, debutant as a host.

How did it happen that you became the host of the Open Microphone project on TNT?

They just called me and asked: “Do you want to host a show?” I said, "Yes, with pleasure." At first, of course, I was scared, because before that I had never led anything. I thought that the lead was not mine. And now I tried it and realized that this is a new interesting experience.

Did you enjoy being the leader? Are you used to performing...

Yes, but it's a completely different world. I used to be a little dismissive about dribble, I thought it was very easy. In fact, everything is not at all like that, because you have to lead people, set the tone for a concert, party, event. To set a good standard for quality, you must be cheerful, feel the crowd, people, their mood. If it doesn't exist, you must create it. And it's very difficult. When you perform in the stand-up genre, you know where it will be funny, you go from joke to joke - here you know that it will not be funny. As a leader, you most often announce the rules, then explain them for a long time. At first, it was very difficult and unusual for me not to hear laughter. But then you gradually pour in, you understand how it works.

Were there any difficulties with creating this mood, atmosphere on the show? Let's say you're having a bad day yourself.

Yes, definitely. Sometimes you have to push yourself. This is the moment of professionalism of any artist, no matter - a stand-up artist, a singer, a magician. You should go on stage - and people should not know about your problems. This is work that needs to be done.

Do you prefer to watch performances by experienced comedians or beginners who are clearly talented?

I like the performances of all participants. I don't know why, but I'm starting to worry about them. Probably because he was often in their shoes. I myself am still not a seasoned comedian, I know what an experience, excitement is ... when, because of one joke that has not gone down, the whole performance is pouring. Therefore, when they succeed, I am only glad, whoever they are.

Do you interact with them backstage? Do you give advice?

Yes, we communicate very well. All the same people. Sometimes they consult, but there is no such thing that I am their mentor, teacher, patron and deity. It happens, and I ask them something - we all work in different styles, each is good in a certain area. There is no such thing that someone is a guru, and the other is nobody, we all share our experience.

Do you make up your own jokes on this show? Or use the help of scriptwriters?

We have a group of writers, but since I have a disgusting memory, more often than not something gets out of my head during the filming - and an absolute bacchanalia begins. As a result, we either rewrite or leave my impromptu. So this is our joint work.

Would you like to take the place of one of the jury members?

No, absolutely. As a host, I can say what I want, we can tease each other with the members of the jury - I like it. I wouldn't want to take the responsibility of teaching someone. This is a huge excitement. Everyone thinks it's easy to be a mentor - here you are sitting in a chair, and you absolutely do not care what happens. No, they care about the participants. I wouldn’t be able to watch the one with whom I wrote at all - I would sob and tear my eyebrows from excitement.

You obviously prefer ironic jokes. Why?

They are sharp, very well remembered. They have a certain amount of negativity, but it is very small. Apparently, because of my upbringing and medical education. I just see how people are hooked by more ironic jokes - they not only laugh, but also think: “Yes, indeed, I behaved the same way wrong then.” It gives more response, you are more memorable.

Do comedians always rely on personal experience in their performances?

Most often noticeable when from life, and when invented. Personal experience is important in any case. If you just sat in the office for three weeks and wrote some fictional thoughts, most likely it will not arouse interest. I had such a problem - I somehow sat down in an apartment for several weeks and wrote out nothing. And then I went, for example, to the cinema, and I had a monologue even at the moment when I threw out the remnants of popcorn. You need to experience strong emotions, live different situations and have your own view on them. But stand-up is still an embellishment of reality, and not an accurate retelling, not a presentation. When you convey your emotions, impressions, views, which are certainly interesting to the viewer, then you get a fascinating, funny story.

What do you expect from the Open Microphone project? What will he give the guys who decided to take part in it?

Many Open Mic participants mistakenly believe that the winner takes all and the rest take nothing. In no case do I want people who participated and did not win to get upset and quit stand-up. I am sure that this will not happen, because they are all great professionals and adequate people. You can't measure everything by one performance - you're cool, you're not cool. Every comedian, and every person, understands that there are always more bad performances than good ones. You can't be funny every time. I was at the performances of very seasoned, eminent comedians, when 30-40 minutes were frankly not funny. It happens. This is fine. This is the human factor. Our guys are now starting a big stand-up life thanks to the Open Microphone project.

Did you have any favorites among the participants?

Yes, but I wouldn't like to say who. Because I know that they will read this interview. Unless, of course, you are deceiving me by deciding to just chat with me and publish it.

What qualities, in your opinion, should a participant in the Open Microphone show dream of winning?

He must understand that in case of victory, one should not rejoice too much. When I won the Comedy Battle, I was very upset, because I understood that in a week I had to write a new monologue, instead of going with everyone to celebrate, play tricks, go crazy, indulge in bacchanalia and the apotheosis of moral horror, decompose and have fun . I had a huge job ahead of me. But I think they are all great fellows - and each of them will be ready for this. They will be delighted, but this will not blind them - they will continue to plow. And they will all succeed.

Why should TNT viewers watch Open Mic? How is it different from the Stand Up show?

There is a major difference that we all really dislike. I don't like it when humor is made into a competition. Naturally, this is a plus, because the level in the face of strong competition increases greatly. You put more golden bolts into the performance, you want to make you laugh more often than to immerse yourself in your atmosphere and just please the audience. You start to worry more, and people who sit in the hall and watch the competition also begin to appreciate the humor, although this should not be. But within the framework of the show, apparently, it is necessary. But after winning this show, it lets you go. You go to the open hall of the Stand Up show on TNT, where no one evaluates you, but people just want to have fun.

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