Collection of the 80s. Volume 3. Zhvanetsky M.M.

returned to Odessa, and Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko returned with me. In Odessa, we created the Miniature Theater. In those years, everywhere Satire was suspicious, and in Kyiv the source of all troubles and crop failures was seen in it, and we fled through the competition to the Moscow Theater of Miniatures. And the Komsomol, the astronauts, all whom I read, who had cheerful, who did not support me did not support me helped me, but joined my soul.

And humor is life. This is a state. This is not a joke. This is a spark in the eyes, this is a love of the interlocutor and the willingness to laugh to tears.

I love to go out to the audience that is already laughing.