Yakov Naumovich Pokhis better known as Yakov Smirnoff (born 24 January 1951 in Odessa Ukraine) is a Soviet-born American comedian actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977 Smirnoff began performing as a stand-up comic. He eventually gained fame and he reached his biggest successes in the mid-to-late 1980s when he also appeared in several films and television shows including his own 1986-87 sitcom What a Country!.
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