Immigrant of the Day: Yakov Smirnoff (Ukraine)

July 14, 2011

Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born comedian. He was popular in the 1980s for comedic use of irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist Soviet Union with life in the United States. He has a theatre in Branson, Missouri, where he performs regularly.

Yakov has taught a class at Missouri State on “The Business of Laughter.”