KVN Major League

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

Seasons

Season 1

Episodes: 8

Season 2

Episodes: 7

Season 3

Episodes: 5

Season 4

Episodes: 7

Season 5

Episodes: 8

Season 6

Episodes: 10

Season 7

Episodes: 9

Season 8

Episodes: 10

Season 9

Episodes: 10

Season 10

Episodes: 13

Season 11

Episodes: 12

Season 12

Episodes: 13

Season 13

Episodes: 13

Season 14

Episodes: 11

Season 15

Episodes: 12

Season 16

Episodes: 12

Season 17

Episodes: 11

Season 18

Episodes: 1

Season 19

Episodes: 1

Season 20

Episodes: 1

Season 21

Episodes: 1

Season 22

Episodes: 12

Season 23

Episodes: 12

Season 24

Episodes: 12

Season 25

Episodes: 12

Season 26

Episodes: 13

Season 27

Episodes: 14

Season 28

Episodes: 13

Season 29

Episodes: 15

Season 30

Episodes: 4

Season 31

Episodes: 9

Season 32

Episodes: 15

Season 33

Episodes: 14

Season 34

Episodes: 14

Season 35

Episodes: 17

Season 36

Episodes: 16

Season 37

Episodes: 15

Season 38

Episodes: 15

Season 39

Episodes: 16

Season 40

Episodes: 4