KVN Major League
6.7/ 10 18 votes 1986 115m / ep 14 popularity
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Network: Central Television USSR, Channel One
Seasons
40
Episodes
432
Status
Returning Series
Alexander Maslyakov
Self - Host
Yuli Gusman
Self - Judge
Konstantin Ernst
Self - Judge
Valdis Pelšs
Self - Judge
Leonid Yarmolnik
Self - Judge
Igor Vernik
Self - Judge
Mikhail Galustyan
Self - Judge
Pelageya Khanova
Self - Judge
