Now, I haven’t heard of or thought that name in quite a while, and suddenly associations flooded back: The Horshack-esque laugh. Moscow on the Hudson. Night Court. The whole relieved Russian exile wet ...

At the peak of his powers, David Letterman did a Top 10 list about things that will change with the fall of the Soviet empire, with the No. 1 answer being "Yakov Smirnoff will be out of work." "I ...

WHO IS HE: Yakov Smirnoff is a comedian who was born and raised in the former Soviet Union and emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s. His career took off in the 1980s and he began appearing in films ...

Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (Russian: Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff (Russian: Яков Смирнов ...

“What a country!” Soviet-born comic Yakov Smirnoff used to proclaim when pondering the good life in his adopted land. The familiar catchphrase from his ‘80s sitcoms and standup routines, uttered in ...

OMAHA — Omaha Performing Arts will present an online comedy special by comedian Yakov Smirnoff, “United We Laugh” at 8 p.m. on Aug. 29. Yakov Naumovich Kokhis, known as Yakov Smirnoff is a Russian ...