KVN Major League
Высшая лига КВН (1986 — present)
Seasons: 40,
episodes: 432
Episode runtime: 115 min
Average rating:
8.1/10
94 700
Status
Returning Series
Country
Network
Channel One, Central Television USSR
Production
Website
Actors
Alexander Maslyakov, Albert Akselrod, Svetlana Zhiltsova, Alla Mikheeva, Sergey Zhilin, Konstantin Ernst, Valdis Pelšs, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Yana Churikova, Aleksey Krivenya
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Vyacheslav Murugov
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Editing
Short description
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1986-04-01 | — | |
| 7 | 1987-10-17 | — | |
| 5 | 1989-04-29 | — | |
| 7 | 1990-01-10 | — | |
| 8 | 1991-01-10 | — | |
| 10 | 1992-10-02 | — | |
| 9 | 1993-01-01 | — | |
| 10 | 1994-01-01 | — | |
| 10 | 1995-01-01 | — | |
| 13 | 1996-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 1997-01-01 | — | |
| 13 | 1998-01-01 | — | |
| 13 | 1999-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2000-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2001-02-18 | — | |
| 12 | 2002-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2003-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2004-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2005-01-24 | — | |
| 12 | 2006-01-12 | — | |
| 12 | 2007-01-24 | — | |
| 12 | 2008-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2009-01-01 | — | |
| 12 | 2010-02-07 | — | |
| 13 | 2011-02-13 | — | |
| 13 | 2012-02-12 | — | |
| 14 | 2013-02-17 | — | |
| 13 | 2014-02-08 | — | |
| 15 | 2015-02-08 | — | |
| 15 | 2016-03-18 | — | |
| 14 | 2017-02-12 | — | |
| 15 | 2018-02-12 | — | |
| 15 | 2019-02-16 | — | |
| 14 | 2020-02-12 | — | |
| 17 | 2021-04-11 | — | |
| 16 | 2022-02-16 | — | |
| 15 | 2023-02-18 | — | |
| 15 | 2024-02-16 | — | |
| 16 | 2025-02-27 | — | |
| 8 | 2026-02-26 | — |
What's left behind the scenes
- In 1972, KVN was shut down due to 'hints' directed at the government. In 1986, its broadcasting was resumed.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
