Kirill Lopatkin: "Sense of humor is a way of life"

KVN - a game that is extremely popular in Russia, many are familiar and beloved.

In KVN play in universities, colleges, schools, camps. He still gathers complete rooms in big and small cities. For the vicissitudes of the game of favorite teams, viewers continue to observe with interest - despite the fact that the program is already 55 years old.

The fans of KVN have their favorite artists, which are not just pleasant to see and hear - about which you want to know everything.

Kirill Lopatkin is a humorist, well known to many at his young age. He is the owner of a remarkable wit and a charming velvet voice, thanks to which he gained popularity and love for a large audience.

"A man with a beautiful voice and beautiful thoughts"

"I will take up this matter," he raised an eyebrow and played with baritoneal intonations, he would respond to a proposal to hold an event-action, a wedding or corporate event, if, of course, it would interest him.

Leading with great experience, working towards "KAMYUI" ("Beauty, Artistry, Youth, Humor, Intelligence"), a columnist, in 2014 - a torchbearer at the Olympic Games in Sochi, the "face" of the popular brand Henderson, "concurrently" Director and captain of the KVN team "Saratov", Kirill Lopatkin is known for his irrepressible energy and activity.

After talking with Cyril and making an interview with him, one of the journalists called him "a man with a beautiful voice and beautiful thoughts." With this it is difficult not to agree, especially if you read the credo of the showman, in which the most important quality of the artist proclaims "a big and broad soul."

Kirill Lopatkin, KVN: The Beginning

The team of KVN "Saratov" headed by Lopatkin (in 2013 - the Premier League champion, starting in 2014 - twice the winner of the semifinal of the Higher League) is considered one of the most interesting bands whose sparkling, witty humor promises to conquer new heights in the future. Not the least role in the team's success is played by the participation in its fate of the captain. How it all began?

His friendship with KVN began at school, with a defeat that was remembered for a long time.

After school in the Saratov Technical University Kirill Lopatkin played in the faculty team and soon became a captain. By this time, he had discovered the abilities of a parodist: he was good at copying images, voices, intonations. The debut of the parodist brought success: the role of "Mickey Mouse - cattle" brought the first letter for the best acting game.

Then there was an uneasy path of ups and downs, when an understanding of the importance of KVN in his life was formed.

And in 2008 came the first major success - the team won at the festival "KVN on the Volga" and received universal recognition.

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In 2010, at the game in Sochi, the hall laughed and slapped Lopatkin and his voice, which later, for the sake of the team's victory, had to be forgotten for a while: they had to work out their own style, learn how to come up with smart jokes containing useful information for the viewer , Which makes him think. It was their principle: from the SSTU team - only useful information!

About his voice, he then tells reporters, in each interview, calling this distinctive feature of the humorist's talent his "calling card": "This is a collective image of parodies for different people."

When a young artist realized that he possesses certain "oratorical" abilities and increasingly began to use them during his speeches, it's time to take special exercises to preserve and develop the voice. But he did not try to improve the timbre by eating raw eggs in the morning ...

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Then, in 2010, the team won in the regional league and got money from the government to participate in the game "Sochi-2011".

By this time, Kirill Lopatkin graduated from the university and began to work in the major Saratov gas company, combining work with intense rehearsals.

The team already had a new form, but the skill still required improvement.

And at the 2011 Moscow and Moscow Region League Festival the team "Saratov" "broke" the hall! The team was taken in the season, and this was the beginning of the story of their success.

Captain Cyril calls the duties very difficult, and this indicates a high level of awareness of his responsibility to the guys. In disputes, the captain must objectively weigh the arguments of each member of the team. In addition, his duties include organizing the process of preparing for the game, informing about the news, communicating with management, sponsors. But he can always rely on the support of the guys.

"I'll stop humorting in 80 years!"

Like any professional humorist, Kirill Lopatkin answers questions of journalists about humor very seriously. In his opinion, a sense of humor should be an inalienable quality of every man. It is given with birth, but it is developing in the process of upbringing. He is grateful to his father for his sense of humor: in his childhood he listened with rapture to his talented, original jokes and "absorbed" them into himself. Now humor is his "way of life", and more recently, a means of earning.

The joke, according to Cyril, begins with the observation that gives birth to the idea. The information is collected, processed through a prism of humor and fed in a funny way.

They do not have a specific joke creation algorithm in the team. It is born in a collective brainstorming session, the collection of ideas takes place bit by bit, all members of the team take part in this. During a general discussion (in disputes, overplaying), they approach the result, which is satisfied by the whole group.

Sense of humor, of course, helps in everyday life: sometimes a successful joke manages to smooth out the conflict, put a man to himself ...

For any kavenschika (athlete, dancer) at a certain age, the career comes to an end. In the future plans - work on television and in the cinema.

"I think that in 80 years I will cease to humor!" - Kirill Lopatkin jokes about this, whose biography is just beginning.