Vokrug Smekha

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A popular entertainment program for Soviet and Russian television (1978-1991 and 2017). The name of the program is an allusion to the name of the magazine «Around the World», popular at that time. The program was conceived as a joint project of the entertainment and humorous programs department of the Central Television USSR and the «Club 12 Chairs» humorous department of the «Literary Newspaper, and many famous comedians became authors of the program, including Viktor Veselovskiy, the head of the humor department of «Club 12 Chairs», the author of many sketches and scripts for comedy films Arkadiy Inyin, writer Arkadiy Arkanov, and so on, Igor Makarov, who worked and repeatedly published in the humorous department of «Literary Newspaper», became a graphic designer.