Comedian Vinokur about the death of satirist Koklyushkin: this is a big loss for the stage
Comedian and singer Vladimir Vinokur commented .ru “the death of the satirist Viktor Koklyushkin, calling it a great loss for the genre.
Russian satirist, screenwriter and TV presenter Viktor Koklyushkin died at the age of 75 from acute heart failure.
“Victor is a wonderful author, performer and person. He was very unstarred, kind, contact, – the artist recalled. – For many, many years, I do not remember that someone was offended by him or he was at someone. He was a highly professional literary man. This is a great loss for our genre and for the stage in general. ”
Viktor Koklyushkin was born on November 27, 1945 in Moscow, at the age of 36 he graduated from the theater courses of GITIS, and four years later he began writing scripts for television. His monologues were read by Vladimir Vinokur, Evgeny Petrosyan, Klara Novikova and Efim Shifrin. During his life, the writer published many books, was a laureate of the literary prize of the Yunost magazine and the Golden Calf prize of the Literary Gazette.