Entertainment & Arts
Yakov Smirnoff keeps fighting the Cold War at ACME Comedy Theater
Sept. 14, 2013
Our Comedy Radar is going off because … Who: Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff.
Politics
Comedian Yakov Smirnoff of Hollywood and business executive Hriar Nadjarian of Studio City were selected by Gov.
June 24, 1986
When John Kennedy was killed, Vaughn Meader died.
March 2, 1993
Celebrities: Yakov Smirnoff dreamed as a boy in the Ukraine of living in the U.S. But he had no idea that he would eventually own a theater and live in Branson, Mo.
Nov. 23, 1997
It almost doesn’t matter that Yakov Smirnoff is a marginal comedian with thin material largely engineered off one basic premise.
March 11, 1989
Travel & Experiences
Care Packages: Yakov Smirnoff, the Soviet-born comedian who built his career on jokes about his homeland, doesn’t think the Soviet Union’s current food shortage is a laughing matter.
Dec. 17, 1990
World & Nation
Yakov Smirnoff, the Soviet-born comedian who built his career on jokes about his homeland, is serious about doing what he can to ease the food shortage gripping the Soviet Union.
Dec. 14, 1990
Comedians Yakov Smirnoff, Paula Poundstone, Ray Combs (of TV’s “Family Feud”), Jay Johnson and Dick Hardwick will be among the performers appearing at the Ice House in Pasadena on Feb. 10, to celebrate the club’s 31st anniversary.
Jan. 31, 1992
Sporting fluorescent-Hawaiian-flowered swim trunks, black-framed sunglasses on cords, blue sun-block and a plastic fluorescent orange peaked cap, Yakov Smirnoff does not look like a man on a mission.
April 8, 1990