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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

Yakov Smirnoff

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
Comedian
Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
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Everybody

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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.
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In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads this is the reason we stop laughing.
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Russian men have a saying: Women are like buses... That's it.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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