"This time around, I’m not rushing anything — I’m savoring it," Smirnoff tells PEOPLE Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously ...

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on June 10. This appearance marks Smirnoff's return to the show 40 years after his debut on The Tonight Show Starring ...

Now, I haven’t heard of or thought that name in quite a while, and suddenly associations flooded back: The Horshack-esque laugh. Moscow on the Hudson. Night Court. The whole relieved Russian exile wet ...

Yakov Smirnoff is a Russian Immigrant who loves America and being American. "United We Laugh is a comedy special brought to you by Yakov that will leave you in stitches laughing and shedding a tear at ...

Comedian Smirnoff paints Sept. 11 mural BRANSON, Mo. -- Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff, best known for regaling crowds with his observations of life in the United States, has painted a mural that ...

OMAHA — Omaha Performing Arts will present an online comedy special by comedian Yakov Smirnoff, “United We Laugh” at 8 p.m. on Aug. 29. Yakov Naumovich Kokhis, known as Yakov Smirnoff is a Russian ...

Smirnoff is already a dad to two adult children, Natasha and Alexander, from a previous relationship The actor and writer, 74, revealed the exciting news exclusively with PEOPLE, noting that there's ...