Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special Taped at his nightclub in New York City, Rodney Dangerfield performs and acts as host while he introduces several young comedians who are given the opportunity to perform.

Ben Stiller's Yakov Smirnoff

Television commercial for Miller Lite featuring the Cold War Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff - 1985

Progressive Trance

Yakov Smirnoff Career highlights

when he was starting out. big star now in Branson.

All the components of Yakov Yavno's art, beginning with his imperious intonations, the stunning sight of his stylized Jewish costumes (which intentionally mix historical periods) and the tambourine of this "born-again shaman'--everything, everything borders on the magical. The miracle which is Yakov Yavno is in that he unites and solidly combines t...

Yakov Shwekey at the Israel Solidarity Concert Sunday Febuary 18 2007 Queens College - colden Center For more about Jewish Music Visit Jewish Music Review at http://www.jewishmusicreview.blogspot .com

Yakov Yavno is an internationally renowned, Russian born singer-actor. He moved to the United States in 1990 and began touring the world, presenting his glorious bass-baritone at show-cases ranging in size from intimate cabaret-style acts to large scale events. He has performed on stage at The Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Ce...

Yakov Shwekey Motzai Shabbos Nachmu at the Raceway 2007

Having made his debut in 1935, he rose to prominence when he won First Prize and the Mazurka Prize at the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1937. From 1935 Zak taught at the Moscow Conservatory, becoming a professor in 1947 and being granted a chair in 1965. His pupils include Nikolai Petrov, Valery Afanassiev, Youri Egorov. Eliso...

For once, we had an actual celebrity on The Mystery Hour. This is part 1 of the interview with comedian Yakov Smirnoff, from the February 3rd show.

Yakov Smirnoff performs his one-man Broadway Show "As Long As We Both Shall Laugh"

Yakov Sverdlov, Bolshevik activist. *** http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1925/03/sverdlov.htm "AN IMPERIOUS CHAIRMAN Sverdlov had to preside a great deal. He was Chairman of many bodies and at many meetings. He was an imperious Chairman. Not in the sense that he shut off discussion, or curbed the speakers, and so on. Not at all. On the con...

Yakov Smirnoff gives relationship advice.

entirety yakov shweky

Yakov Yavno is an internationally renowned, Russian born singer-actor. He is an acclaimed iconic figure now based in New York City. Yakov performs his signature programs, ideas of which lie not only in preserving Jewish musical traditions, but their integration into world culture. His performances are characterized by originality, subtlet...

Suite Bergamasque No. 3 "Clair de lune"

Yakov Smirnoff is a Ukrainian-born American comedian and painter, popular with American audiences for his use of irony and word play to contrast life in the former Soviet Union with life in the United States, delivered in a heavy accent. Here, he expresses his high regard for colleague Dr. Pat Allen. Communication and Relationship Expert Dr. Pat A...

Yakov Sverdlov was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1885. When he was a student he became involved in radical politics and in 1902 joined the Social Democratic Party. He quickly became a supporter of the Bolshevik faction led by Vladimir Lenin. Sverdlov took part in the 1905 Revolution and developed a reputation as one of the party's leading orators. A...

Yakov Yavno is an internationally renowned, Russian born singer-actor. He is an acclaimed iconic figure now based in New York City. Yakov performs his signature programs, ideas of which lie not only in preserving Jewish musical traditions, but their integration into world culture. His performances are characterized by originality, subtlety, brillia...

Kabalevsky Prelude no. 14 a rare treat

All the components of Yakov Yavno's art, beginning with his imperious intonations, the stunning sight of his stylized Jewish costumes (which intentionally mix historical periods) and the tambourine of this "born-again shaman'--everything, everything borders on the magical. The miracle which is Yakov Yavno is in that he unites and solidly combines t...

For once, we had an actual celebrity on The Mystery Hour. This is part 2 of the interview with comedian Yakov Smirnoff, from the February 3rd show.

Yakov Yavno is an internationally renowned, Russian born singer-actor. He moved to the United States in 1990 and began touring the world, presenting his glorious bass-baritone at show-cases ranging in size from intimate cabaret-style acts to large scale events. He has performed on stage at The Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Ce...

Remember Yakov Smirnoff? Check him (and his parents?) out in the quality vintage commercial for Best Western.

All the components of Yakov Yavno's art, beginning with his imperious intonations, the stunning sight of his stylized Jewish costumes (which intentionally mix historical periods) and the tambourine of this "born-again shaman'--everything, everything borders on the magical. The miracle which is Yakov Yavno is in that he unites and solidly combines ...

Rumanye, Yiddish song, performed by Anna, Katia and Yakov Kazyansky Lyrics and music - A.Lebedeff Arrangement - Yakov Kazyansky Yaroslavl, Russia, 2003 www.kazyansky.com

Yakov Yavno's deep and powerful baritone, lush with its palette of rich overtones is a new and noteworthy example of modern performing arts, where musical drama and comedy are organically merged with choreography--where opera, Broadway musical and folklore form not a simple concert-mosaic, but rather a tightly cohesive, almost incendiary performanc...

Jazz-funky version of Flight of Bumblee-bee by N/Rimsky-Korsakov - Yakov Chashnikov