about KVN

To lift our spirits, we watched the 2009 KVN Premier League final. We somehow endured the first half of the show, but by the second half we had no energy left, so we switched to dinner, conversation, and tea. Today we finished downloading the “KVN Super Games” — the anniversary edition matches. We watched the most recent one, the 48th anniversary game from 2009. As it turned out, it featured the teams that hadn’t made it into the final we had already seen. I spent a long time trying to figure out what the audience in the hall found so funny, especially during the performances of the team “Fyodor Dvinyatin” — the captain of which personally makes my teeth ache, so repulsive, disgusting, and dim-witted he is, and the jokes so dull. And now, as I write this, a performance by the KVN team from NSU is playing in the background on YouTube — the one that gave the world Alexander Pushnoy, among many wonderful acts — and I think: the show is from 1997, a round of 16, yet it’s so funny that the entire 2009 final doesn’t even come close. I’d rather not think that I’ve grown old enough that even KVN has stopped being funny.