About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Episode 1
Aired 1 January 2009 • 115 min
2. Episode 2
Aired 25 February 2009 • 113 min
3. Episode 3
Aired 2 March 2009 • 11 min
4. Episode 4
Aired 12 March 2009 • 114 min
5. Episode 5
Aired 8 March 2009 • 112 min
6. Episode 6
Aired 15 April 2009 • 118 min
7. Episode 7
Aired 24 July 2009 • 145 min
8. Episode 8
Aired 24 August 2009 • 117 min
9. Episode 9
Aired 30 September 2009 • 113 min
10. Episode 10
Aired 20 October 2009 • 117 min
11. Episode 11
Aired 20 November 2009 • 126 min
12. Episode 12
Aired 19 December 2009 • 116 min