Zhvanetsky Mikhail Mikhailovich! He was far, far ahead of time. Time for short videos, clip thinking, speaking aphoristic, short and capacious. “Share your smile, and you will remember it more than once …” In March 2018, the famous satirist turned 84, he retained his clarity of mind, humor. Zhvanetsky does not like to give interviews. He believes that he can write better than say.
Zhvanetsky M. M. in various interviews speaks about age with his quote: “What is sixty? It is a fright in her eyes, everything else is the same. ” And it doesn’t matter - 60, 75 or 84 years.
With age, you become better, calmer, wiser. “I’m older than you not by age, but by years” - one of Zhvanetsky’s quotes.
A distinctive feature of satirical monologues is that they are so vitally true that each viewer and listener finds a piece of himself in these performances. He writes to himself, but it turns out about everyone. Writing a text takes 3-4 hours, but to complete this text it takes about a year, it is honed at different audiences.
Humor is thinking!
It is difficult to translate jokes and phrases into foreign languages. Once, the poet Joseph Brodsky, at the birthday party of Mikhail Baryshnikov, where Zhvanetsky was also present, amazingly translated "Crayfish 5, Crayfish 3" for Americans, the latter laughed. Probably Brodsky managed to convey the meaning of the monologue, since he worked as a simultaneous interpreter at the UN. Prior to this, no one, according to Zhvanetsky, was able to translate this monologue for the Americans to make it funny.
Conservative or reformer?
“There is a lot of humor, a little irony, and in general there is practically nothing — it’s self-irony, ” Zhvanetsky said in an interview on the radio about modern humorous programs.
It was often said about him at the beginning of his career that he introduces new directions in pop business. Mikhail Mikhailovich himself believes that he did it involuntarily, it is rather a question of talent. And after he introduced this new direction, he became a conservative.
Zhvanetsky Boulevard
There are only two people in our country, our contemporaries, after whom the streets are named. In the city of Grozny there is Putin Avenue, and the name of the famous Russian writer and satirist, who has the title of "People's Artist of the Russian Federation", "People's Artist of Ukraine" and is the performer of his own works, was called the pedestrian boulevard in Odessa! The houses face the boulevard, they have no addresses, so no one had to change passports and make changes to the registration. Zhvanetsky spoke about it on the Silver Rain radio station - the main thing is that "there is a sea and a port, and let there be no house numbers."
Books
Zhvanetsky’s statements about women were often in his speeches, as well as in the book “Aphorisms, Thoughts and Jokes of Famous Men”.
"A woman is the only gift in the world that packs itself."
There is a book by Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky “Women”, in which you can fully enjoy his statements, quotes and trace his attitude towards women.
Deputy Zhvanetsky M. M ?!
The right-liberal political party, Democratic Choice of Russia, proposed M. M. Zhvanetsky to become a deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He recalls this with a smile. “I called all my friends, all the girls I knew, informed me that they were calling me to the Duma. And … refused. But he informed everyone. ” Of course, he was very flattered, but he perfectly understood that this work was not by his nature.
Mikhail Mikhailovich does not like to lie and does not tolerate insults that turn to the person from others. He does not represent himself in the program “Towards a Barrier”, just as he does not represent Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, his beloved author, in politics. The writer is great, but not a politician.
Politics and Satire
According to a statement by V.V. Zhvanetsky in an interview with Pozner V.V. on Channel One: “Stalin was the most effective leader for Soviet people. A simple Soviet person never before Stalin came to understand or see the result of his actions in governing the country. Here he wrote a denunciation in the morning, in the evening they’re already leading to whom he wrote, and it doesn’t matter: academician, deputy minister, shop manager or ordinary worker. This is an incredibly fast return on action. It is clear that they often wrote because of the position, the apartment. ”
There is Zhvanetsky’s best statement on this subject: “Conservatory, graduate school, fraud, swindling, court, Siberia. Conservatory, private lessons, one more private lessons, dentures, gold, furniture, court, Siberia. Conservatory, accompanist, technical school, factory production, caviar, crabs, currency, gold, court, Siberia. Maybe something in the conservatory to fix? ”
At these events, Zhvanetsky did not leave the country, as many did. There was too much that connected him with the country - the great Russian literature, success! Even the departure from the country of his beloved woman, who called him with her, did not convince him to leave. Zhvanetsky stayed in Russia!
“Not the ropes, but the threads! This is what connected me with my country! ” - another statement of M. Zhvanetsky. In those years, many Soviet scientists left Russia from "redneck" - rudeness, nationality - they will not take you anywhere! Everywhere you go, every enterprise, every institution — they everywhere judge you — the party district committee, the housing office, etc. For Zhvanetsky, this was not enough.
