Talk:Yakov Smirnoff

message: This sounds more like gossip than an entry.  Should it be removed?  Maxim isn't noted for its scholarly reviews.  
:In a fall 2006 issue of Maxim magazine, Smirnoff was selected as #4 in the list of the twelve worst comedians of all time: "We get it—life in Russia was difficult. You had to wait in line for everything (even toilet paper!). But you know what's worse than life in Russia? Having a schtick that only plays to 75-year-olds in Missouri who still think Communism is the enemy."  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.132.27.200 (talk) 19:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion vs Objectivity 

message: Someone needs to tell Yakov Smirnov that Ali G is ripping off all his schtick. --M.Neko 00:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borat vs. Yakov 

message: I suggest we split off the Russian reversal section to make it easier to email the link to people. We can always use transclusion to make the section appear to still be here. What do you all think? --unforgettableid | talk to me 17:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: 1947 Rand HUAC transcript of possible interest:
...Mr. Taylor is an American who came there apparently voluntarily to conduct concerts for the Soviets. He meets a little Russian girl [...] He asks her to show him Moscow. She says she has never seen it. He says, "I will show it to YOU."
http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/texts/huac.html—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.223.242.38 (talk • contribs) 
*How is this relevant?  Not all sentences ending in "you" are Russian reversals.--M@rēino 16:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian Reversal 

message: Lollerpedia is dead. Not only that, but the cache is dead, too. Should we get rid of it? -- 04:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lollerpedia who? 

message: In Crimes of the Hot Fry cites Yakov Smirnoff's phrase "That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crashes you.". Leela claim that he didn't say that. --Yuriy Lapitskiy 21:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, yes. I found it here Russian reversal. --Yuriy Lapitskiy 21:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futurama 

message: Someone added, someone removed... Why is that? I liked that idea and added that numbers to the russian interwiki page, what should I do with them know? --Yuriy Lapitskiy 22:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's up with his telephone numbers? 

message: Part of this article is from here. It says nothing about the text as far as I could find, but I'd just like to bring this up. TέΉ ѕΡίɗΣR ( ŢάḶκ | ÇόηṬŕĺβs ) 06:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: The first sentence of this article says that Smirnoff is "according to his own description, a Ukrainian-born American comedian and painter". Why the "according to his own description"? Is there doubt about whether he is actually Ukrainian-born? Actually, I question whether his own description is that he is Ukrainian-born, since his official site refers to him as "famous Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff".  --Metropolitan90 05:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubt? 

message: The Russian reversal page should be redirected to Yakov Smirnoff, at that page the only content there is a definition and a trivia section. There is already a definition at the Yakov Smirnoff article, and the addition of a trivia section does not make a good article. The manual of style also suggests avoiding trivia sections, and without that the only content there is pretty much redundant to what is here. Also the entire russian reversal page is solely sourced to two wikis, one of which is a satire and comedy site Uncyclopedia,while being funny, it also becomes inimical to reliable sourcing. --MichaelLinnear 19:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is heavily in the context of "some comedian my readers aren't interested in" - he's mentioned in every paragraph, and his creation of the joke is the only real encyclopaedic fact about it. I don't see how it's any different to linking to a sub-section of a comedian's article, or how the description of the joke would be any less enlightening. --McGeddon 17:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The redirect can be section-specific.  And the article has readers, not anonymous users.  Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 05:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't get it.  This discussion page has a dozen people voting to give "Russian Reversal" it's own article last year, and when it's suggested again, people object to it - yet somehow it gets merged back, without even a vote that I can see.   Could someone explain to this novice what happened? 24.105.133.184 18:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All I have to say about this is; In Soviet Russia, articles merges you! –xeno (talk) 20:26, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In Sovte Russia, my ass kisses YOU!!--Baruch ben Alexander - ☠☢☣ 03:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge back 

message: Under Russian reversal only examples of online communities using russian reversal are shown, no examples of TV shows or movies are given although it is stated that russian reversal appears in "television parodies", perhaps some examples should be added? The only one I can think of is when Family Guy made a reference to it in the episode "There's something about Paulie" from season 2, Peter's new car says such things as "In Soviet Russia, car drives you" "In Soviet Russia, road forks you" etc. Some feedback on this would be appreciated, I'm unsure of whether this kind of information is worth a mention.
--Marshmellis (talk) 06:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of Russian reversal 

message: 'nuff said. I'm off to suggest this become policy. --66.129.135.114 (talk) 21:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not every article needs a blow-by-blow account of the subject being mentioned once on "Family Guy."  

message: I can't seem to fix the image size and formatting.  Can someone look at the code and fix it? Bearian (talk) 13:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image formatting 

message: was it also on family guy that it said:
* In America, you assasinate president (l.h. oswald)
* In Russian, president assasinate you! (putin) Mallerd (talk) 12:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that in the episode mentioned earlier, that Peter says Boris Yeltsin rather than Yakov Smirnoff, but either way, somebody just deleted that whole paragraph anyway unless they're just trying to reformat it as mentioned in an earlier post Parcanman (talk) 13:30, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  family guy 

message: It is a bit jarring to see Yakov Smirnoff's nationality referred to as "Ukrainian Jew". His national origin is Ukrainian; his ancestry is Jewish. This is like claiming that the nationality of Barack Obama is "African-American". He is black, but that doesn't mean that's a property of the country he comes from. I can understand that Nationality: Ukrainian; Race: Jewish would be even more bizarre and objectionable by current standards, and perhaps changing "Race" to "Ancestry" or even "Ethnicity" wouldn't fix it entirely.
Of course, this is a general question, and does not apply to only this one article. 75.158.3.244 (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: --Confession0791 talk 08:06, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Now at the other extreme after what must have been one or more edits, I'm struck now that there is zero mention in the article anywhere of his being Jewish. I absolutely agree with the original comment in this section, but it's also odd that nowhere (but the categories) -- not in Early life or Personal life -- does it mention that he is Jewish, or at least of Jewish heritage (not sure if he was raised as religiously Jewish). This is also odd. Soviet Jews were treated in distinct ways, both inside the USSR and for US immigration purposes in the 1970s, so his historical Judaism is a relevant fact to mention in passing. Moncrief (talk) 21:23, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality 

message: Does anybody else think that this guy looks like a Russian version of Ray Stevens? Jdaniels15 (talk) 19:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ray Stevens 

message: Nice article ya wrote Yakov. (By party?) Now can someone else write it instead?Tapered (talk) 02:50, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Nice article...

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