Garik Martirosyan

Biography

Garik Martirosyan is a Russian and Armenian showman, TV presenter, humorist, artistic director, co-producer and resident of the popular Comedy Club show. A person with a great sense of humor, a generator of new ideas and projects, bright and talented. He broke into the world of Russian show business, took a position on its Olympus and is still in the conquered place today, delighting fans with his creativity.

Childhood and youth

Garik Yurievich Martirosyan was born in February 1974 in the heart of Armenia – the sunny city of Yerevan. Since the child was born on the 13th, the parents, out of superstitious motives, recorded his birthday on February 14. Since then, the artist has been celebrating his name day for two days in a row.

Garik Martirosyan as a child

As a child, the boy was an active and restless child: he broke sets, played pranks, arranged bedlam in the house. Besides him, another son grew up in the family – Levon. At the age of 6, his father and mother sent Garik to a music school, from where he was soon kicked out because of his behavior. But exile did not become an obstacle for the young man on the way to independently master playing his favorite instruments - guitar, drums and piano. In addition, at an early age, Martirosyan began composing music.

During his school years, although Garik Martirosyan was not the first ringleader in pranks and pranks, he was reputed to be a great inventor. For example, in the 1st grade, he told classmates that he was the grandson of Leonid Brezhnev. And the young prankster showed artistic talent early: Garik played the first role in the sixth grade, portraying Archimedes in a school play.

Medicine

After graduating from high school, Garik Martirosyan entered Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU), where he received a specialty as a neuropathologist-psychotherapist. For three years, the future star of the Comedy Club was a practicing doctor, and she liked the work. But artistic talent still outweighed. Today, Martirosyan does not regret the years devoted to psychiatry: he assures that now "you can't fool him, because thanks to his specialized education, he sees through people."

Garik Martirosyan with glasses

As for humor, Garik Martirosyan joked everywhere, always, about and without - it's in his blood. Probably, he would have continued to receive patients if he had not met with the team of KVN "New Armenians". We can say with full confidence that it was this acquaintance that became the defining moment in Garik's fate, giving him a ticket to television.

KVN

The first meeting of the young neuropathologist doctor with the KVN team took place in 1992. Probably, this year should be considered the point from which the creative biography of Garik Martirosyan began. The "Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful" changed the life and determined the future fate of the future artist.

In an interview, Garik Martirosyan shared his memories of that time. According to him, soon after entering the medical university, a military conflict began in Armenia (the war for Nagorno-Karabakh). There were serious power outages in the country, there was no gas, and bread was given out by cards. At that time, KVN began – young people gathered in someone's apartment, stocked up on candles and wrote comic texts.

"They amused themselves. Well, we just had no other way out," says the comedian.

In 1993, Garik became a player of the Armenian League, on the basis of which the New Armenians team appeared after a while. Martirosyan started as an ordinary player, but in 1997 he headed the team.

Garik Martirosyan in his youth in KVN

The game filled all the free time of the artist, so it is logical that he began to earn a living with humor. In the late 90s, the main income came from touring, but even then Garik Martirosyan tried himself as a screenwriter. Even when he wasn't playing in the "Fun and Resourceful Club" on stage, he continued to play as a producer. Then the Sochi team "Tired of the Sun" appeared, to which Martirosyan wrote plots and jokes for performances.

As a member of the "New Armenians" team, Garik performed for a total of nine years. During this time, the team became the champion of the Highest League (1997), twice received the Summer Cup (1998, 2003), was repeatedly awarded at the Jurmala festival "The Vocal Kivin", and also became the winner of other awards of the "Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful".

As Garik Martirosyan himself noted, the organizational and experience that KVN gave him in his youth became a real school of life for him.

Television

Garik first "lit up" on television in 1997 as a screenwriter of the program "Good Evening" with Igor Ugolnikov. Unbeknownst to himself, he became a regular participant in various shows.

Garik Martirosyan in his youth

In 2004, Garik Martirosyan participated in the popular show "Guess the Melody" and reached the third round of the game. The musical talent of the artist has been useful to him more than once. In the Two Stars project, the comedian demonstrated excellent vocal skills, winning a well-deserved victory in a duet with Larisa Dolina.

And in 2007, in the program "Minute of Glory", Garik Martirosyan tried himself as a TV presenter for the first time. He had never had such a big project before – the program gave him a sense of self-confidence.

In December of the same year, he participated in the recording of Pavel Volya's musical album "Respect and Respect". But the fans of Nastya Kamensky and Potap Martirosyan are also remembered for the fact that he once accompanied the couple.

In 2008, a humorous project "Our Russia" produced by Comedy Club Production appeared on TNT. The directors created a sketch based on the impression of the English TV series Little Britain. Garik was the producer of "Our Russia", where he also starred as Rudik's cameraman.

In May 2008, the humorous project "Projectorperishilton" was released on the screens for the first time. The show was broadcast on Channel One until 2012. Garik Martirosyan was the host of the popular project together with Ivan Urgant, Alexander Tsekalo and Sergey Svetlakov.

In 2017, the show, beloved by millions of viewers, was released again after a five-year break. The composition has not changed: to the delight of the huge TV audience, Garik Martirosyan appeared again with his former colleagues, jokingly explaining the long break.

Garik Martirosyan with his children and wife

Martirosyan is not only a wonderful artist, but also a producer, although he does not have a specialized education. He decided to open the list of his filmography for the first time in 2008: the audience saw the premiere of the full-length film "Our Russia. Eggs of destiny". Garik not only produced the project, but also wrote a script for it. Martirosyan managed to prove his financial and organizational talent once again when a new project called "Show News" was released on the screens.

As a TV presenter, Garik Yurievich performed on the musical project "Main Stage", which he hosted in 2015, as well as in the tenth season of the show "Dancing with the Stars" on "Russia-1".

In 2017, Garik Martirosyan appeared in the 758th edition of the humorous show "Evening Urgant", where he told what he had been doing for five years after the closure of the project "Projectorperishilton". At the same time, he gave a detailed interview in the author's program of Yuri Dudya and visited Pavel Volya in "Improvisation".

At the end of the year, viewers remembered the release of the program "Where is the logic?". Together with Semyon Slepakov, he competed in sharpness against Ksenia Borodina and Olga Buzova.

On April 1, 2018, Garik performed in his own author's show "Martirosyan Official" on the TNT TV channel dedicated to the Day of Laughter. Such stars as Egor Creed were invited. The audacious behavior of the latter then did not please the audience.

Garik Martirosyan and Garik Kharlmamov — "The Caucasian Alphabet"

In the same year, the comedy film "Zomboyashchik" was released, where Martirosyan played one of the main roles. Despite the abundance of diverse jokes, the picture was criticized by the audience and could not pay off. In 2019, he represented the contestants on the project for amateur vocalists "I'll sing right Now" on Channel One.

In the spring of 2020, the premiere of the musical program "Mask" took place on the NTV channel, in which Martirosyan participated as a member of the jury. The format of the program comes from South Korea. Today, analogs are broadcast in more than 50 countries around the world. In Russia, the program immediately became popular. Eminent judges also played their role - in addition to Garik Martirosyan, the contestants were evaluated by Valeria, Philip Kirkorov, Regina Todorenko and Timur Rodriguez.

Comedy Club

Garik Martirosyan's career, which started in KVN, opened the doors to Russian show business for him. So, in 2005, the artist, together with his comrades in the "Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful", initiated a new comedy project.

A program called Comedy Club, made according to the template of American stand-up shows, soon began to appear on the TNT channel. Garik was one of the producers, simultaneously performing in the show. Soon Martirosyan became a cult figure for Russian youth.

Garik Martirosyan and Garik Kharlamov in their youth

Unfortunately, Garik Martirosyan himself always spoke sparingly about the creation of the program. Being modest, the artist says that Mikhail Galustyan, Vadim Galygin, Alexander Revva and other future residents gathered and decided to organize a humorous program, although colleagues claim that he is the founder of this project.

The artists did not make their way to television right away. The Comedy Club trial edition was gathering dust in someone's desks for about a year before it was viewed and approved. Not everyone liked the sharp jokes of the residents (as the artists themselves called themselves). But, fortunately, the program was missed on the air.

Today it is difficult to find a person who would not have heard about the Comedy Club, despite the fact that Garik himself did not initially believe in the success of this project. But hard work quickly began to produce positive results. The ratings of the program grew steadily. Martirosyan became famous for such miniatures as "The Moscow Language", "Casting. New Wave", "Criminal Russia", "Caucasian Alphabet" and "The Case in the Caucasian restaurant" with Timur Batrutdinov. The showman demonstrated an excellent sense of humor not only as an artist of the project, but also as a TV presenter: Martirosyan became famous for his ability to represent guests.