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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

Yakov Smirnoff

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
Comedian
Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
Wasn
Funny
Thought
People
Collapsed
Soviet
Union
Unions
Anymore

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