Humor is an indispensable component of our lives. The smile that others give us can be warm and inspiring. There are people who can do this. They invent various jokes, interesting images and are able to arrange holidays. But is it easy to understand what’s funny and what’s not? Is it easy to be constantly fun? Zhytonmyr.Travel’s answers were sought, along with actor Andriy Rybak
«In terms of profession, most likely I’m a comedian. At least, I tend to think so. Everything I do is united in the name of this profession. It may not be quite a profession, but in general, this word most accurately describes what I do»
«As a kid, I dreamed of becoming a football player and even played football for a while. But one day I watched the movie «Richie Rich» starring Macaulay Kalkin and realized that it was much more convenient to be just a very rich boy. I don’t know, well, I’m probably not very rich yet. However, let it be so far»
«I remember when we had a VCR and I was surprised by the large number of Hollywood fighters, rented tapes… And still I went to acting circles, pantomimes, it interested me. I will not say that I regret going there»
«I studied at the Zhytomyr Lyceum number 25, and so it turned out that it was in a class with advanced study of mathematics. I do not know if my parents arranged me there, whether it happened by accident. But I studied and knew math pretty well. It seems that even before the eighth grade I was an excellent student, I had all the «fives» or «tens», «eleven», to be honest, I no longer remember what the system was. But when numbers began to disappear from mathematics and letters, formulas, cosines, sines, tangents, cotangents began to appear, a lot of tabular values had to be kept in my head in order to be able to somehow solve the set tasks, then I began to lose interest. . In foreign and Ukrainian literature, I easily memorized poems by heart and recited them. But I don’t why it didn’t work out with formulas»
«When I was entering the university, I paid tribute to having studied for 11 years in mathematics class and applied for a Physics degree at the ZhSU. Named after I.Franko. In addition, I was accepted into the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Management. But I chose the most promising of these areas, as it seemed to me at the time: it was connected with computers, and humanity is constantly evolving. So I thought I would need it, and really it is. Maybe I did not become a great programmer, but in general with computers we are «friends». My choice was quite pragmatic, especially since a lot of my classmates also went for the Physics. And I didn’t want to leave the comfort zone very sharply. And yet, stay in a more familiar environment. By the way, when I applied for university in physics, there were several queues to different departments, but there was the smallest one for computer science. That is why I stood into the shorter one»
«I worked as a system administrator for several years: from the second half of the fifth year and one and a half years after graduation. I worked in the specialty, parallel to KVN, the Laugh League. And when it was time to run out, I quit»
«I have absolutely no regrets, but on the contrary, I am satisfied with the fact that I entered this computer science, this university. In general, I think that you should not regret anything in your life: any choice you make is right, based on the life experience that you have at that moment … I think I would say the same about any other school, or a situation that happened to me during my life. I’m not inclined to regret anything»
«At school and university I used to make up jokes, so self-affirmed and gained authority. In the course of time, I realized that girls can like it and solve many problems that arise in life. When I entered the university, I was spotted and offered to play in KVN at the freshmen festival. This idea intrigued me, and when I first came on stage, I realized that I really liked it. And so it has been spinning up to the present moment. I would not say that at some point in my life I realized that humor is what I want to do. On the contrary, I constantly doubted, I thought that we should do something more serious, and even now I have such thoughts. But I think it is a standard component of any creative person: you constantly doubt, analyze and come to some definite conclusion. Actually, that’s what I’m doing now. I analyze and conclude that I like it. So, I will continue to do this»
«My KVN game was parallel to my studies, so my parents did not make this great tragedy, even though my mother talked to me about it. She said: «Andriy, it is enough to do these jokes already, let’s do something serious. We must take the mind.» But I think this is a standard KVN player conversation with parents. In general, the parents were quite loyal. Although my mother often worried about this one, it seems to me that I doubted my choice but accepted it. My parents supported me morally, and it helped a lot. Later, somewhere in the third to fourth course, my creative activity began to bear some fruit. I was very fond of the dean’s office because I performed and organized all the concerts; at some point I began to speak at corporate events. I remember going to the New Year for the first time to perform, earning about half a scholarship for one evening. That’s when my mom realized that I was going to feed myself this and calmed down. Well, now such questions do not arise at all. I am a creative artist and make a living for myself»
«Laughter League» gave me a lot of new and useful acquaintances, an interesting experience and some media that is easier to monetize in monetary terms. Because the project itself is quite popular, so many people want to see the participants of this project at their corporate events, they want to come to them for concerts»
«There are, of course, certain worryings before going on stage, before starting a corporate event or a public event. But this is excitement for the result. I feel responsible for the reaction of the public because I perceive my performances from a professional point of view. I just go on stage to get out. I go out to get a certain result, a certain return from the audience, from the audience that surrounds me. Apparently, it is this responsibility that presses a little before leaving. However, when you go on stage and get the first feed back from the viewer, you immediately forget about everything and continue to do what you can»
«Long ago there was such a desire to work on radio, though it is not such an important media as television but there is also much experience to be gained … And as soon as I saw the casting announcement, it immediately took effect. I needed to record small audio on some random topic. After sending the audio recording, directly to the studio, and later I was invited to work – to show»
«I had many friends, friends of whom I follow in different fields. You can say, I organize their actions. For example, I like some of their traits, reactions, emotions, openness. And I try to mix it in myself, work out their actions and find for myself what I would like to learn»
«Any trait in a person can annoy me if it is too hyperbolized or, conversely, not sufficiently expressed. When a person likes to talk too much, he is too open and tells you about his intimate details, although you did not ask him about it … Just as when a person is too silent, closed, it is also unlikely to be very attractive. Therefore, in general, I really like the balance myself, I try to keep it»
«I like the constant movement and the opportunities that can be obtained there in Kyiv. And Zhytomyr – because many of my memories are here. They are more related to people, because remembering the first kiss, you think not of the bench on which you sat, but of the girl with whom you were on it. Zhytomyr evokes warm memories. There are less of them in Kyiv»
«Now I have exceptionally free time, like many people. I like to watch movies, sometimes I play computer games, but now I’m probably less and do sports, at least I did before quarantine. There are gyms near my house that I go to after work. I like it – quite a good emotional discharge. I make friends, but sometimes I like to be alone, think about something, read»
«It was very difficult to separate what was funny to me and what was funny to me and the environment. The sense of humor is a little atrophied when you work in this field … I am «amused» by the people who at first say that they follow our team and love each participant and then ask: «Well, what about Khmelnitsky? How is it in general?» And specify where I live in Khmelnitsky, the notion that I am not really from Zhytomyr»
«There are times when you do not want to have fun, or to make others happy. But if it’s a job, some corporate events or performances, you have to deal with it. In everyday life, I used to try to always be fun, always joke. And then I heard the interesting idea that when you invite to a football player’s meeting, you do not expect them to juggle the ball right in front of you, that they will come in leggings and in a sports uniform. You expect to see a person who can tell you something, including football. I think so with the comedian. In general, this can be said about any other profession … When I do not want to communicate at all and there is no joke, I try to avoid people, not to spoil their mood. But in general, it’s a matter of time, because we learn to adjust ourselves and understand when to be fun and when not»
«It is difficult to understand whether I consider myself successful. I have certainly been able to achieve a lot during all this time, but for self-development it is more convenient for me to think that I am not doing enough. Not to humiliate yourself, just to keep a balance. To push it to do more and become better. Success for me is an opportunity to express myself because of what I do»
«I’m not inclined to run ahead. Now I’m trying to remember what I thought about ten years ago: I had no plans to do anything I was doing now. So I just do what I like, using the experience … It will be seen later. How not to stop and get better internally. External changes will come in parallel»
