Host Anatoly Gryadunov

“Say a few words about the guest of honor” five minutes before going on stage — that’s what half of the hosts do. Then the evening follows a script into which someone else’s name was simply inserted.

Then the evening follows a script into which someone else’s name was simply inserted.

That’s why the jokes land on specific people, not on an abstract “tight-knit team.”

Such blocks get people up from their chairs without persuasion and work equally well in an intimate room and on a large venue.