Tired of foreign humor and want to plunge into the domestic, no less funny genre? Then feel free to watch these 20 Russian comedy series. Folk ingenuity, colorful traditions and signs, understandable language puns and a unique mentality will amuse you and make you laugh heartily for more than one evening!
1.257 Reasons to Live (2020 - Present)
Zhenya (Polina Maksimova) struggled with cancer for three years and was able to snatch a difficult victory. However, returning home, the girl realizes that health is not the only problematic part of her life. The heroine accidentally finds an old diary in which she wrote down all her desires, and now she is in a hurry to make her dreams come true.
2. Balzac age, or All men are their own ... (2004-2013)
The story of four girlfriends "slightly over 30" who desperately dream of getting married. Psychologist Vera (Yulia Menshova) raises her daughter herself and deals with patients' problems, Sophia (Alika Smekhova) wants a rich and elderly spouse, strict and businesslike Alla (Lada Dance) is looking for a man who will prevail, and sensitive Julia (Zhanna Epple) too often falls in love with the wrong ones.
3. Big game (2018)
The Russian football team has suffered another setback. Soon a video was leaked to the network in which serviceman Dmitry Popov (Dmitry Kolchin) criticized the training of players in detail. The internet is exploding and viewers are starting to sign a petition en masse to appoint the captain as FC coach. Now the former military man has to urgently take on new duties.
4. The bearded man. Understand and Forgive (2016)
Borodach (Mikhail Galustyan) is a frequent "visitor" to the Ryazan police station because of alcohol and a naive, almost childish outlook on life. The main character constantly changes his job, every time he is kicked out for drunken tricks, which he carries out because of his love for the stripper Irishka (Anna Ukolova).
5. You all piss me off (2017)
Sonya (Svetlana Khodchenkova) is a strict restaurant critic who works for the local magazine editorial office. The girl is used to being on her own, wary and negative towards others and clearly does not know what emotional closeness is. This continues until one day Sonya goes over with alcohol ...
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6. Guests from the past (2020 - present)
In the courtyard of 1982, physicist Matvey Platonovich (Yuri Stoyanov) creates a time machine. Scientific experience does not go according to plan, and the genius's housing is divided in half: on the one hand, the scientist's apartment remains, and on the other, a room from 2020 appears. While the physicist and his grandson are looking for ways to close the portal, newly arrived guests from the future are trying to establish their own lives, influencing their past.
7. Two fathers and two sons (2013-2016)
Pavel Gurov (Dmitry Nagiyev) is a wealthy actor, a star living in grand style. One day, on the doorstep of a man, his abandoned son, a loser and precocious grandson, appears. Now the life of the protagonist is unlikely to remain the same.
8. Diary of Dr. Zaitseva (2012-2013)
Alexandra Zaitseva (Yana Krainova) is a promising young surgeon. But at the same time, this is a vulnerable, funny awkward and naive girl who meets her first love at a new place of work. It's just that their relationship can not be called romantic in any way.
9. Kitchen (2012-2016)
Maxim Lavrov (Mark Bogatyrev) gets a job in an elite restaurant. The guy dreams of one day becoming a chef in the kitchen and confidently goes to his goal. On the way, he finds himself in numerous incidental situations with colleagues, the owner of the establishment and the eternally disgruntled head chef.
10. Dyldy (2019 - present)
Mikhail Kovalev (Pavel Derevyanko), due to his eccentric nature and accusations of sexism, is losing his post as coach of the men's volleyball team.The hero returns home, where he gets the chance to take over the leadership of a women's sports club.
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11. Policeman from Rublyovka (2016-2019)
Grigory Izmailov (Alexander Petrov) is a very wealthy man who, for reasons that only he can understand, works in the police, and also turns out to be the best opera. The whole comic revolves around his relationship with colleagues, a sissy sister and a "beloved" boss, whom the protagonist constantly teases.
12. Zaitsev + 1 (2011-2014)
Sasha Zaitsev (Philip Kotov) is a typical "nerd" in love with the first beauty of the university. His story could be the most common, if not for the special diagnosis of the guy - a split personality. After blows to the head, exposure to bright light or a loud sound, control over the body is taken by the protagonist's alter ego - Fedor (Mikhail Galustyan). How will two personalities get along in one shell?
13. Fizruk (2014-2020)
A new physical education teacher comes to the small school. He turns out to be the lost bodyguard of a businessman with an unclean past. To regain the favor of the ex-boss, the hero decides to make friends with the child of the crime boss.
14. Psychologists (2017-2019)
Three friends and psychologists in combination, ten years after graduation, decide to unite to save other people. But it seems that the girls themselves need help ...
15. Cheating (2015)
Asya (Elena Lyadova) is a 32-year-old woman-designer with a "small peculiarity": she has a husband and three lovers at once who do not know about each other. The heroine's friend, because of problems with her husband, asks to teach her such an "easy" life.
16. Univer (2008-2011)
This is a cycle of stories of apparently ordinary students of a completely ordinary university. Friends go through personal ups and downs, defend themselves before their parents, take their first steps into adulthood and, of course, make funny mistakes.
17. Interns (2010-2016)
Andrey Bykov (Ivan Okhlobystin) is an amazingly skillful doctor with sarcastic humor, amazing intelligence and equally obvious cynicism. One day he gets at his disposal four "green" interns, over whom he is constantly making fun of.
18. Cheeky (2020)
Three girlfriends-prostitutes work on the track and are in no hurry to make serious plans for life. When their old acquaintance Zhanna (Irina Gorbacheva) comes to visit them with a business proposal, the situation changes dramatically. But can girls get rid of the stain of the past?
19. How I became Russian (2015)
When American journalist Alex Wilson (Mateusz Damencki) arrived in Russia, he could not even imagine how many adventures he would have to go through. The hero starts a personal blog in which he describes in detail his attempts to understand the Russian mentality and customs of the local people.
20. Fitness (2018 - present)
Asya (Sophia Zayka) is the owner of magnificent forms, who does not complex about her appearance. But her ideas about the world and herself begin to collapse rapidly when it turns out that the girl's fiancé is embarrassed by her figure, and her “best friends” gossip all over her back. Then Asya goes to the gym ...
