Ilya Axelrod Biography

I was the Team leader of the team consisting of seven orthodox girls. I must say that at that time I learned a lot about the life of orthodox Jews - it was an interesting experience. We tested various programs, management of radio systems, and it was very interesting to observe how they combine the absolute faith in Gd and what they do at work-in fact, physics. Between the countries and jokes, Ilya Axelrod was born in the year, at the age of 6, along with his parents, he left for Israel.

He plays in KVN: the captain of the Israeli national team and the leader of the local major league. Comedy Club's Israeli Co -Organizer. The finalist of the third season of Comedy Battla. Of the famous jokes of the authorship of Axelrod: “Do you know that Moses was the first provider? True, the speed in those days was not yet very-about 20 kilo -evers per hour ... But in 40 years he still pumped everyone.

" For some time we sat with girls in the same office. Since religious women worked in the building, he had his own rabbi. And at a certain moment, there was a need to solve something-I could not constantly be with women in the same room. It was necessary either to rent a separate office for me, or invent something else. Having decided that there was no money for the office, they puzzled the rabbi with the question.

He, in turn, came to a very original solution: he allowed me to stay in the same room with women, but on condition that I would replace a personal computer with a laptop because the laptop symbolizes temporary stay, and not constant. And with a laptop, I continued to sit in the same office. Jewish ingenuity in practice. As the effect of Pygmalion to Comedy, Battle brought to 29 years, changing several projects, I began to realize that I was not doing what I wanted.

At the same time, I studied humor from the age of 15 - I played in KVN, was the champion of Israel, the captain of the Israeli team, leading the Israeli league. All this did not turn me into a professional - I did not really believe that humor could turn into a profession, but this thought did not leave me. The class in the 10th on one educational project was told about the effect of Pygmalion.

Its essence is that if you are constantly talking about your dream, if as many people can learn about it as possible, then she eventually begins to come true. And so I decided to check this theory. While I was experiencing the effect of Pygmalion, many people began to tell me about Slepakov’s seeds, it turned out that we have common friends. Once, after another game in KVN, a certain businessman addressed me with a proposal to bring some artist to Israel.

I decided to offer Slepakov's candidacy. We agreed that he invests the project, I am carrying it out, and we share profit in half. We started the organization, agreed with Semyon. And at a certain moment, my investor did not grow together, and I was faced with a choice: either to cancel this concert, or to invest my personal money, which, I must say, there were few.

With the unconditional support of the wife, who was already in the ninth month of pregnancy, I went to V-Bank. For some reason, I was not afraid to lose all my savings. Probably, when you live a dream, you do irrational acts. Before the concert, when we met with Slepakov, I told him that all this was organized by me and brought to the end only in order to meet him. And he suddenly invited me to speak during a pause at his concert.

He said, they say, I will still pause for 10 minutes, at the same time I will see how you perform. In general, he looked at my performance right in the hall at his Israeli concert. After the concert, he gave me a phone number and told me to call him to become a member of Comedy Battle. So I got to the project. It was a year. We can say that everything really turned out in my favor. At first there were difficulties with my design on Comedy Battle, I could not have time for the next season.

And on March 20, they called me early in the morning and reported that bureaucratic issues were resolved and waiting for me.

I replied that this news would take an accounting second place in today's news rating - five hours ago I had a son. So on this one day my life has changed dramatically. And about the effect of Pygmalion, I can say that he is probably working. Why you need to go to Duty Free at the airport, this happened as if not with me. I felt personal responsibility to Slepakov, because it was he who believed in me that brought without a casting.

After the first round, I was terribly dissatisfied with myself and even sent him SMS: they say, thanks for the invitation, I hope that I did not fail much. But in the end, I went to the finals, did not win it, but was invited to the second season of Comedy Battle, and later Garik Martirosyan invited me to Comedy Club. It is more comfortable living in Canada, more interesting - in Israel.

Axelrod and Esaulov was a period of cardinal changes in life. Before participating in the second season of Comedy Battle, I drunk enough money so that for some time the family did not feel the unemployed dad, and began to dangle to Moscow in search of work.As a result, I found two bets, but the conditions were difficult: there was no weekend, respectively, you need to move to Moscow, and in Israel a wife with a small child.

But Nastya supported me, we decided that I would try to start in Moscow, and there we will see. I was already flying to Moscow to conclude an agreement, but in Duty Free, before departure, I met the owner of the Israeli Channel 9 Alexander Levin. Upon learning that I am flying to Moscow to get a job, he said that he wants to invite me to work for my channel. We met with him in some restaurant in Moscow and agreed on work in Israel.

Thanks to a completely random fateful meeting at the airport, I stayed in Israel. To be myself - on stage, I feel absolutely at ease. This is an incredible charge of energy. The stories that I tell are often based on real events and memories, and every time I experience all these moments again. The greatest pleasure for me is when your replica makes people react.

This is so strong, I cannot convey in words. I think that such types of pleasure are not achieved by any other way. I will never forget the moment when I performed in London, in front of me was a hall, a man. It was an improvisation, I did not tell according to the script, but myself, and I saw that people are interested, funny. This is strange, but on stage I feel much calmer, more confident than in life.

I don’t know why, probably, psychologists could explain. At the same time, the reverse side is when the creative process does not go. There is no “muses” - and that’s it. When it is not written, it is not invented, for the author it is as a creative impotence. And now you are sitting and understanding that you seem to have once written, but, apparently, you will never succeed again.

Of course, when the period of stagnation passes, you fly in the clouds. But while you cannot squeeze anything out of yourself, this is a terrible feeling. It’s good that the family supports me very much, and above all my wife. Not everyone will withstand constant stress, constant tour. About how I went out to speak out of my hall once in Belarus on the Limood, I began to speak out of my hall.

I came to the theater during a break, the actors were not on stage. Everything seemed to me quite logical: a hall was sitting, an empty scene. I asked the administrator if I could go out. She said: “Imagine you? I went out, began to speak, and after a couple of minutes I realized: something is wrong-the hall reacts strangely. Turning around, I saw the actors from behind: a coachman in a bowler, two peasants in bast shoes ...

Someone with a bass asked me: “What are you doing here, young man? A hysteria began in the hall - there was laughter. I remembered the joke in the topic and told them: about how the artist discovered instead of colors in his tube, food for the astronauts and thought how the astronauts were surprised at orbit now, eating my colors. He told and quickly ran away - they were waiting for me in another hall.

So I became famous for the whole of Vitebsk. Not every day the artist does not come to his theater and begins to perform. Moscow and Israel - what to laugh about in Moscow formally there is no censorship. There are rules and boundaries set by the leadership of television channels or the authors themselves. They try mainly carefully to joke on Putin, Kadyrov, Patriarch - this is how it is accepted.

In Israel there is no censorship at all. In Israel you can run into everyone. The behavior of Ivritony -speaking and Russian -speaking is also distinguished here - there is a difference in mentality. Hebrew -speaking jokes everyone and it is necessary for everything that comes to mind. Russian -speaking even in Israel set their border. Repatriation to Israel and hatred of Bambe I was six years old when my family and I moved to Israel.

I remember my very first serious disappointment. I loved corn sticks very much, and in Israel there was a Bamba.