Who is Yuri Khovansky? A blogger, musician, stand-up comedian, a violent liberal, who at one time clashed in a dispute even with National Socialist Maxim Martsinkevich, is only a small part of the description of the character’s activity and work. Russian-speaking users of the YouTube service are still blown up by his sharp blogs and sketches, and more recently, his Russian Stand-up was considered almost the only noteworthy show on YouTube among young people who consider themselves the most intellectually developed part of the country's population.
Biography of Yuri Khovansky
Those who rarely visit the YouTube resource, but want to keep abreast of modern Internet trends, should definitely find out who Yuri Khovansky really is. The biography of the character, unfortunately, is not covered by such well-known resources as Wikipedia, so you have to turn to his profile on the social network Vkontakte. The account says that Yuri “lives in Petersburg” and was born on January 19, 1990. The turning point in the life of Yuri Khovansky came in September 2011, until that moment he had not uploaded videos to the Internet and led the ordinary life of a student at an economic university. From that day, Yuri began to upload videos where he in a sincere and somewhat hooligan manner performed songs of his own composition with a guitar, naming the newly made show “That Guy with a Guitar”. In the future, Yuri came up with a fresh idea for a channel on Youtube - the first Russian "standup".
Channel development Russian Stand-up
The first season of the Internet show, which was presented to the audience by Yuri Khovansky, was a resounding success. Against the background of a brick wall, a chubby guy shared his thoughts on a wide variety of everyday and social topics, often transgressing the line of generally accepted values and taboos. He was convincing, emotional and quite eloquent, so the youth responded very positively to the first season of Russian Stand-up. Despite the fact that before that no one knew this name - Yuri Khovansky, the “stand-up” to a hitherto unknown guy became so in demand that Yuri not only decided to shoot the second season, but also began to perform live. At the peak of his success, Khovansky realized that it was time for a real “bomb”, and decided to shoot the third season of RSU, but at a higher level, improving the quality of the picture, sound and production as a whole.
The third season of Russian Stand-up
Of course, such high-quality surveys are expensive. Yuri Khovansky resorted to the idea of crowdfunding - fans of his work and just sympathizers, as well as colleagues on the floor, were able to collect more than 400,000 rubles on time for filming the new season of the show. Everyone expected that his investments would be justified, that the stand-up of Yuri Khovansky would reach a new level, but this time Yuri was expected to be a resounding failure. The third season consisted of six parts of twenty minutes each: Religion, Politics, Personal Life, Health, Income, and Age. However, already the first part plunged the audience into a state of shock - the sound quality was worse than in previous seasons, the jokes were flat and poorly played, Yuri himself tried to appear before the audience in different images, but the level of acting left much to be desired. Even short cartoons drawn specifically for RSU did not extend the season - in critical reviews, among other things, it was noted that the cartoons did not carry either humor, satire, or any kind of intelligible meaning. Yuri Khovansky himself was very annoyed by the reaction of the audience, but he brought the season to the end and even tried to joke about his failure. After some time, Yuri also released the fourth season of RSU, however, it was not so easy to regain its former popularity - it was affected by the lack of confidence of the audience, as well as the increasing level of competition in the genre of Russian "stand-up".
Where can I find a video of Yuri Khovansky and how to subscribe to updates?
At the moment, Yuri shoots acutely social life blogs, as well as experimenting with various formats besides the “stand-up”, for example, parody videos and reviews. Also, Yuri Khovansky is open for business offers - just write him a personal message on VKontakte or contact “Private Messages” on YouTube.