Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov (russian: Геннадий Викторович Хазанов; born 1 December 1945) is a Russian

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

and part-time actor. His work includes parodies of Russian and Soviet politicians, and mockery of various sub-cultural groups in modern Russia. After graduating from the Moscow Circus School in 1969, Khazanov worked as a master of ceremonies in Leonid Utyosov Orchestra. He began his solo career in 1973 at Moscontsert, a Moscow state concert organization. He gained early success with monologues of a culinary school student written by Lion Izmailov and Iurii Volovich, and of a brave parrot who cannot stop telling the truth written by Arkady Khait. In 1997, he became artistic director of the Moscow Variety Theatre. In 1999, he was president of the Security Foundation of the Russian Jewish Community, which was set up to coordinate action against antisemitism in Moscow. He is an acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of Putin's position on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.

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* * 1945 births Living people Activists against antisemitism Jewish Russian comedians Male actors from Moscow People's Artists of Russia Russian male film actors Russian male television actors Russian satirists Russian male comedians Full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Russian humorists Russian parodists Jewish Russian actors Russian stand-up comedians {{Russia-actor-stub