Andrey Knyshev: creativity and biography

Andrey Knyshev is a well-known satirist writer, one of the greatest and most talented humorist contemporaries. He got wide recognition after he became one of the very first members of the jury in the humorous KVN program, beloved by millions of viewers. Fame writer at one time added and work on the cycle of programs called "Cheerful guys", as Andrei Knyshev - one of its founders. The author is a laureate of many international television awards.

Brief biographical data

Knyshev Andrey Haroldovich was born in Moscow in November 1956. Initially, the young man decided to devote himself to town planning and after graduating from high school he decided to get a higher education in the Moscow Institute of Information Technology. Kuibyshev. Andrei was a very smart young man and a successful student, which is confirmed by the Lenin scholarship, which Knyshev won during his studies.

At the university there was a student team of KVN, for which Andrei with pleasure and ease wrote scripts. Thanks to his witty and really funny lyrics, the team almost always took prizes. Such success led to a rethinking of life and its main purpose. Andrey Knyshev (whose biography was largely determined precisely by this moment) decides to enter the Higher Directing Courses, which he successfully does after graduating from the Moscow City University.

Recognition of talent

Being a student, in 1978, as a participant of the KVN, Andrei Knyshev got on shooting a well-known at that time television quiz called "Salute, Festival!". He even managed to win on it and win a ticket to Havana. According to the fateful coincidence of circumstances, this program was watched by the deputy of the State Broadcaster. After viewing, she dropped that they have in the Gosteleradio should work exactly such guys as the winners of this program. The members of the youth editorial board heard the wish of the deputy chairman and took them into account. Andrei received an offer from them for cooperation and a year later, when graduates were distributed at his university, he received it officially.

"Funny boys"

Having come to the Central Television of the USSR in the 1980s, Andrei Knyshev began to work on the program "Funny Guys". Prior to him, the leading project was the legendary Alexander Maslyakov, and the program was conducted in the format of a contest of impromptu. Its winners received tours to the festival of satire and humor in Bulgaria. Coming to the helm, the young and ambitious Knyshev completely changes the format of "Jolly Fellows". He became the leading and main author of the scripts, thus creating a program that really did not have analogs on domestic television. The transfer of "Funny Guys" was a humorous, and sometimes ironic, reasoning on topical issues occurring in the state. In it there were parodies of other famous programs and popular pop stars.

Innovative introduction to television broadcasts

On the airs of "Jolly Fellows" you could see episodes shot in completely new genres of the time (for example, a video clip or video art). In the program showed a variety of funny drawings, which were often shot by a hidden camera. For Soviet television, this format was completely innovative and very quickly became popular among a wide audience.

Guests of this program at different times were such celebrities as Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Leonid Sergeyev, Igor Ugolnikov, Mikhail Lesin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Rodion Shchedrin, Andrey Makarevich, Andrei Voznesensky, Zhanna Aguzarova, Konstantin Kinchev.

The transfer in a similar format was appreciated by the audience not only in the home of Knyshev. He was noticed by his foreign colleagues, constantly flooding with proposals for cooperation. From the particularly profitable and interesting Andrew did not refuse. In his life he had experience working with foreign television companies like PBS and TBS. For the film, created in conjunction with the first company, Andrey Knyshev was even nominated for the prestigious Emmy Award.

Having a colossal experience of overseas work, Knyshev returned to Russia, where he continued to pursue his creative work. In just a couple of years, he managed to develop several TV projects, among them "Shou-godno", "200 pleasures" and "Duplkich, or growl of lambs".

Written work: author's books

In addition, that this man became famous as a screenwriter, in literary circles he is known as a strong humorist writer. Andrei Knyshev, whose books can now be easily accessed without any problems, became the author of many aphorisms and metaphors that have long gone to the people and become humorous expressions of national use.

At the moment in his bibliography there are several books published, among them:

• "The 100th calendar for 100 years";
• "The same book";
• "Pricks of the Pen."