History
Comedy Club was created in 2003 by the KVN team "New Armenians", which included Artur Janibekyan, Artak Gasparyan, Artur Tumasyan, Artashes Sargsyan, Garik Martirosyan and many others. The idea of the club appeared in 2001.
On television, Comedy Club made its debut on the eve of 2004 on MTV, but the cooperation with the channel did not advance beyond the filming of the New Year party, in June 2004, with the assistance of STS channel, producer Alexander Tsekalo, a pilot release of the show was filmed for $22,000, but the general director of the channel Alexander Rodnyansky considered that the show does not fit into the concept of STS channel, which was later perceived by the shareholders of the channel as a mistake Rodnyansky. April 23, 2005 Comedy Club first appeared on the air of the channel TNT. In 2007, the production company Comedy Club Production was created, which produces the same-name program.
Over time, new members and winners from the TV show Comedy Battle (2010-2016) began to appear in the club, from 2005 to 2014, residents appeared from KVN.
On April 15, 2007, the 100th issue of the program was shown on TNT. Regularly there are some special projects - for example, from 2006 to 2007 there were issues on Channel one, from 2011 summer humorous festivals from Sochi "Week of High Humor." In 2014, special issues were issued from Sochi, dedicated to the holding of the Russian stage of Formula 1 in this city, and in 2015 from Kazan, dedicated to the holding of the World Aquatics Championships in this city. In 2008, the television channel Comedy TV was created (later TNT-Comedy, then TNT4), which broadcast various programs of the television production company Comedy Club Production. In 2008, the animated studio Toonbox released the animated series The Real Adventures of Squirrels and Arrows according to the script of the participants of Comedy Club.
April 8, 2010, the presentation of the updated Comedy Club with the new director Sergey Shirokov, music and design took place. On a new stage, a permanent place was occupied by musical instruments - the piano and the drum set. In the center of the stage there is a blue sofa and two armchairs (in 2010-2014). The background is a large screen (in 2010-2011 it was a green background, in 2011-2014 it was light red, and since 2014 it has been dark red), which showed videos with the headings "Good evening, Mars!", "Preliminary caresses with Sergey Gorelikov", "Welcome to Russia with Yunusov and Likhnitsky", "Learning foreign languages with Demis Karibov", "Le Havre Upgrade", "Egor Batrudov's propaganda videos" and the "Mitrich" TV series. At the moment, only "USB" clips and some video clips are shown on the screen. From 2010 to 2014, artists, called "residents", went on stage, descending from the second floor on the escalator. Now they come out of the street, where people and stars meet them on stage. The musical accompaniment of the numbers, as well as paddles and jingles, is played live.
Roman Petrenko, CEO of TNT from 2002 to 2013, said about the new Comedy Club:
As you know, car companies every three to four years produce a new model, longer and sexier, which has a more powerful engine and a more beautiful exhaust pipe, and every five years, companies create a concept car. Comedy Club this year five years, we decided to keep up with the advanced car manufacturers and release our own concept car - the new Comedy Club.
April 1, 2011 - on the Day of Laughter - residents of the Comedy Club Andrei Averin, Timur Batrutdinov, Pavel Volya, Mikhail Galustyan, Garik Martirosyan, Alexander Nezlobin, Sergei Svetlakov, Semyon Slepakov and Garik Kharlamov were invited to a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in his residence in Gorki.
In 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 in the New Year, the "Star of TNT in the Comedy Club" award was awarded, at which the best projects and actors of the TNT channel were awarded.
In 2012, a controlling stake in Comedy Club Production was sold to TNT for a record amount of $350 million. [2]
