"""Ia ne sobiralsia byt' pisatelem i, vidimo, im ne stal. Pravda, v molodosti byla kakaia-to veselost', privychka k smekhu vokrug sebia. My smeemsia vmeste. Vy smeshite menia, potom etim zhe ia smeshu vas. Priiatno, chto moi rasskazy stali privlekat' publiku, dlia chego bol'shoe znachenie imeet intonatsiia. My tak i zhili vse eti govorili odno, dumali drugoe, peli tret'e. Oprovergali slova zhestom, pridavali drugoi smysl intonatsiei, i samomu khotelos' utselet' i sokhranit' skazannoe. Razbiv napisannoe na neskol'ko glav, priglashaiu vas k chteniiu. Esli budet trudno chitat', moi golos pomozhet vam, kak vy pomogali mne vse moi trudnye gody.."" Mikhail Zhvanetskii ... .. "
(Russian: Михаил Михайлович Жванецкий) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian writer, satirist and performer best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.