![]() “It paid off - about twenty people came to the show and some of them even performed on stage,” said Yavits. He then hooked up with Antonov and the two comedy fans went round Moscow hostels looking for people to come and hear them tell jokes in English. ![]() Soon I found myself alone, literally talking to chairs.” ![]() But after a month interest dwindled since I was the only performer. Yavits started off doing comedy on his own in a bar: “My friends and students came to support me and it was really nice of them. “I wanted to make a place where expats and Russians meet and have a cultural exchange in the form of comedy,” said Ivan Yavits, 25, an English teacher at Moscow State Linguistic University, who came up with the idea after doing research on British comedy. Jokes about expat life are common at open mic, jokes about Putin less so.
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