Uncle Vitya is a shocking character comedy shows, which air on the TNT channel. Viewers are sure that under his mask there is a young comedian, whose name is still kept secret. The funny old man became the star of the show “Comedy Battle”, “Laughter without Rules”, and then created his own project.
Character history
When Uncle Vitya first appeared on the stage of Slaughter League, people wondered who played him. Some people had no doubt that it was real person. After all, the actor transforming into him cleverly hid under professional makeup and did not give himself away.
Uncle Vitya always has the same image. Old worn trousers, plaid shirts worn over a turtleneck, and a vest or jacket. And the movement around the stage, characteristic of an elderly person, casts even greater doubts. The man came up with the name Uncle Vitya, or rather his pseudonym, himself, which further emphasizes the created image.
A comedian is good at the conversational genre, when he has to quickly come up with a funny answer to the questions of the jury members and improvise. However, the man was not seen in other directions. It is not known for certain who is hiding behind the mask of a grumpy old man. The organizers of the shows in which he participates assure that the man communicates with them in the same way as on stage.
Ilya Sobolev (supposed Uncle Vitya without makeup) Although Uncle Vitya tries to keep the intrigue to the last and does not reveal his true face, attentive viewers have drawn conclusions for themselves. Main version- hiding under the mask of a rollicking pensioner. This is a comedian on the TNT channel and a former member of the KVN team, who has a reputation as a cheerful guy who performs in miniatures in stand-up style.
Viewers of humorous programs made such conclusions after carefully comparing photos of Sobolev and Uncle Vitya. Despite the applied makeup, users found similarities in the facial features of these two people. Moreover, as “experts” assure, the image of the old man is not accidental. It is partially copied from the film “Man on the Moon”, Sobolev’s favorite film.
Those who carefully watched “Laughter Without Rules” also made their own conclusions. Uncle Vitya’s voice, rude and harsh, broke during the broadcast of the program, and the phrase “He is no longer a defender” was uttered in Sobolev’s voice.
Home distinguishing feature this character is all about jokes. More precisely, in the translation of any questions addressed to him on the topic of the love affairs of an elderly man. The boorish, unbridled Don Juan seems repulsive and outrageous to the audience. However, his wit allows him to quickly come up with a suitable answer and make the whole room laugh.
No matter how much journalists and simply fans of TNT’s humorous projects tried to get to the bottom of the truth, the attempts were in vain. Sobolev and the channel management claim that these are two different people, Ilya has no relation to Uncle Vita.
In May 2018, in an interview for the Talking Heads Youtube channel, Sobolev personally answered an exciting question, assuring the host that Uncle Vitya was not him. Therefore, everyone is left to continue to wonder whether this character is real, or whether he is skillfully played by a professional actor.
Humor and TV shows
For the first time, viewers saw Uncle Vitya on the stage of the humorous show “Laughter without Rules” in 2007. He turned his speech into a dialogue with the jury. The jokes were directed at the girls who sat in the judge's chairs. The man “flirted” with, and. Nobody took him seriously, although the mysterious character's approach to humor and charisma captivated thousands of viewers. So other television programs began to appear in his biography.
In the show “Killer League”, the purpose of which was to select comedians to advance to the next stages and fight for the place of the best, Uncle Vitya was seen again. The man performed on par with other participants and captivated everyone with his jokes, from young people to the elderly.
IN " Comedy battle“Uncle Vitya lit up more than once. More precisely, he became a full-fledged participant in the project, along with other performers in three seasons. While on stage, the man improvises; he does not prepare for his appearances, but tries to get the jury to talk. Moreover, he always has the same image - a grumpy old man who doesn’t love anyone.
Uncle Vitya gets a jobDuring the entire time Uncle Vitya participated in this project, he even managed to reach the finals. In the 7th season of the project, which took place under the slogan “Experience vs. Youth,” the man took 4th place and received the right to open his own project on the TNT channel.
He also competed in Season 8, again finishing in 4th place, but this time the cash prize was only for the sole finalist. However, he was not upset, because he began promoting his own program called “Money or Shame.”
Uncle Vitya's new show started in the summer of 2017. He invites famous guests to the studio and does not change the created image when communicating with them. Stars Russian show business experience sophisticated “set-ups”, sharp facts and scandalous details of their lives from Uncle Vitya.
The audience appreciated the show of the outrageous old man, so filming did not stop after the release of the first filmed episodes. In January 2018, the 2nd season of the show was released, and in the summer of the same year, viewers saw the 3rd. The man continues to look for new “victims” for his show, shoots new episodes and remains afloat for now.
Uncle Vitya now
On November 5, 2018, the 4th season of Uncle Vitya’s show “Money or Shame” started, where the participants, represented by eminent guests, will have to answer the host’s tricky questions. For completing all stages of the program, the guest star receives a cash prize.
Uncle Vitya and Elena BerkovaOther actors, comedians and singers have already come to visit Uncle Vita in previous episodes. The largest amount of money was earned by a businesswoman and former member TV project "Dom-2".
- The fact that Uncle Vitya and Sobolev are one person has not yet been proven. Attentive viewers in one of the episodes of “Slaughter League” noticed important detail. After the next performance, when the comedian went down the steps from the stage, Ilya Sobolev, or a guy similar to him, appeared in the same frame for 10 seconds. This video is freely available on the Internet.
- The interviews that Uncle Vitya gives for online publications are conducted in the same style as communication on stage during performances. The comedian turns questions from journalists into jokes and does not answer any questions seriously.
- In the program “Money or Shame,” where the invited guest was an actor, Uncle Vitya paid most attention to the latter. Moreover, the jokes were daring and arrogant. Although they made the audience laugh, Ruslan did not like such attention. He even went up on stage to “deal” with the man, but everything ended well.
Projects
- 2007 – “Laughter without rules”
- 2009 – “Slaughter League”
- 2015 – “Comedy Battle. Last season"
- 2016 – “Comedy Battle. Experience vs. Youth"
- 2017-2018 – “Money or shame”
- 2018 – “Comedy Battle. Stand-up vs. Miniatures"
Who is this boor and which of the stars managed to get caught? And the most main question- Why do celebrities go to visit him, knowing that they will run into insults?
The main reason is money! And not just money, but a whole million!
Photo channel TNT4
A new comedy show “Money or Shame” has launched on the TNT4 channel. From the very beginning, the invited guest stars fall into the clutches of the host, Uncle Vitya, who hates all of show business and is ready to do anything to denigrate the guest throughout Russia. The star guest receives a million rubles from the host, and he has an excellent opportunity to take home a substantial sum. But there is one condition: he must honestly answer all the questions of the insidious presenter. All questions are facts from the life of the hero, who can either admit the veracity of the statement or say goodbye to his money.
The first to challenge Uncle Vita and want to earn a million were Timur Batrutdinov, Nastasya Samburskaya, Timur Rodriguez and Miguel (you will see programs with them in the near future). The witty trolling of the evil presenter became a real test for celebrities and forced them to plunge into a pool of shame.
The presenter himself does not really like to talk about his beloved self, preferring to remain a mysterious character who is not only not attracted by the glitz of show business, but is also incredibly annoying.
5 facts about Uncle Vita
They say that...
...Uncle Vitya is fabulously rich and is ready to pay a million to the disgraced winner from his own pocket.
... in life he is a completely different person - according to the presenter himself, he has long hair, beautiful face, a pumped up body, and he is “like Leontyev, only without lipstick.”
...Uncle Vitya had a beloved woman in his life. But the love story ended tragically: the girl died when her wife came home from work a little earlier.
...he believes that he can be loved for his apartment in Moscow.
...he dreams of inviting Elvis Presley to visit. But if he doesn’t come, he’ll wait for Boris Yeltsin.
Watch the new show “Money or Shame” every Thursday on TNT4 at 23:00.
The Russian public is well aware of numerous residents of the humorous Comedy show Club. Often their faces can be seen in television programs, like as leading and as invited guests.
One of these bright talents is Ilya Sobolev, a recent winner of the “Laughter Without Rules” program.
As a young man, Ilya Viktorovich hosts his own show “Uncle Vitya”, where he is quite successful portrays a mischievous old man.
Early years
The future comedian was born 35 years ago in the city of Krasnoyarsk. Starting from school, the young Siberian was drawn to her theater stage. Even then, Ilya participated in all school productions, special attention focusing on short scenes in which it was necessary to show a sparkling sense of humor.
Having shown himself in this matter with the best side, the young man quickly got used to the school KVN team. Every time he went on stage, the young man felt relaxed and confident.
As a member of the school humor league, Ilya finds himself best friend, who later becomes the guy’s colleague in the humor workshop. So the final game determines not only future profession young man, but also helps him find a faithful ally.
Having completed schooling, the young man enters an institute, where he receives an engineer's education and acquires additional education learning skills acting at the University of St. Petersburg.
Life with humor
IN student years The twenty-year-old faces his first major victory by winning the main KVN prize in the Premier League. At that time young talent As a member of the winning team, he devoted all his strength to his favorite hobby. The future thermal physics engineer becomes a champion and moves further up the career ladder, rising to the top of the humorous Major League.
Having passed this milestone, the team lasted until the quarterfinals, and a year later became a semifinalist. In the same year, the young comedian completed his studies at a theater university, which he began in parallel.
Ilya often mentions his love for improvisation on stage. He believes that the public likes it more, for the sake of whose reaction new jokes are born.
Career Development
After receiving his diploma, the young, cheerful guy begins to be invited to participate in television projects in Moscow. This is how a guy from Siberia ends up in Comedy Club.
Together with his school friend, the young man organizes a duet, which will soon take part in the project “Laughter without rules”, where the guys manage to take silver. This TV project will serve as a good school for developing the skills of a young comedian. Already in the reporting, stellar season, the duo will be able to take gold medal, becoming the winners of the project.
After winning among the best participants, an ambitious guy becomes a resident of the killer league. Having left the promising project a year later, the comedian continues his creative path in the new show Comedy Battle.
Three years later, together with former KVN members, the thirty-year-old comedian becomes a member of a humorous trio. Working in the style of the absurd, young people were able to win their audience, who understood their jokes well. In this composition the guys become Comedy residents Club. The trio was also awarded as the best media group in the city on Niva.
Individual work
Sobolev is sure that as in individual work, and the team has its pros and cons, and yet he prefers more work alone.
Having an acting education, a year ago the comedian starred in a film for the first time. Of course this work was directly related to satire.
After filming a movie, Sobolev becomes a presenter comedy show, in which comedians make fun of a specific character taken from show business.
Your own show
The name of Ilya Sobolev is often compared to the hero of humorous shows, called Uncle Vitya.
The first appearance of Uncle Vitya raised many questions regarding the actor portraying him. Viewers quickly connected the famous comedian Sobolev with a new character portraying a rude grandfather. However, Sobolev himself for a long time did not admit his involvement to the character.
Personal
In addition to a life of humor, the young man has been closely involved in music for almost ten years. Several songs recorded by the musician were able to gain a foothold in the hits of the Russian radio station.
The showman runs his own blog, discussing pressing problems public and continues to actively participate in various projects of interest to the public.
In addition to work, his family occupies a huge place in Sobolev’s life. Ilya happily married, the couple are raising two daughters, to whom dad often reads fairy tales he invented on the spot. The young actor does not hide his personal life, periodically posting photographs on his pages on social networks.
A good sense of humor helped young man achieve not only excellent results at work, but also achieve prosperity in family life.
Ilya Viktorovich Sobolev is a Russian comedian, musician, resident of the Comedy Club, participant in many humorous television projects, including the Killer League on TNT. Member of the trio “Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev”, former member duet "Beautiful".Childhood and youth
Ilya was born on February 25, 1983 in Krasnoyarsk. As a child, Sobolev was active and cheerful child, who felt quite confident on stage.At the age of 13, Ilya entered the city KVN School League. In the final game, the teenager fought with the captain of the opposing team, Roman Klyachkin, who later became his best friend and colleague in the world of humor.
After graduating from the Krasnoyarsk Lyceum No. 102, Ilya entered the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Materials Science in Krasnoyarsk, and then received an acting education in St. Petersburg theater academy(SPbGATI).
Humor
At the institute, the guy began playing as part of the KVN team “Left Bank”, which in 2003 became the champion of the Premier League. A year later, “Left Bank” fell into Major League– the participants reached the quarterfinals. Then Sobolev distinguished himself at the Voting KiViN-2004 festival, and in 2005 he reached the semi-finals of the Premier League, losing to the teams Maximum (Tomsk) and Friends (Perm). 
Even while participating in KVN, Sobolev and Klyachkin began performing in a duet called “Beautiful”. Soon the guys became residents of the Comedy Club Siberia. In 2007, the duo tried their hand at the first season of a new humorous competition from TNT, “Laughter without Rules,” in which they took 2nd place and received the right to participate in the “Slaughter League” show. In this show, until 2010, Ilya performed not only as part of the “Beautiful” duet, but also solo.
In August 2010, the TNT channel launched the entertainment show “Comedy Battle,” in which Ilya became one of the participants. The comedian, together with Dmitry Romanov, Evgeny Otstavnov, Konstantin Pushkin and Slava Komissrenko, performed as part of the “Aristocrats” clan in seasons 1 and 2 of the show and more than once became the author of the best jokes.
Ilya Sobolev in the Comedy Club: “Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev”
In 2011, the “Beautiful” duet became the winner of the 9th season of “Laughter Without Rules,” in which the finalists of previous seasons took part.
In the fall of 2013, Ilya Sobolev, together with Alexey Smirnov and Anton Ivanov, founded the trio “Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev” - in this composition, comedians became residents of the Comedy Club show.
Ilya Sobolev and Uncle Vitya
There is an opinion that under the guise of the most mysterious participant in “Laughter Without Rules” and “Slaughter League”, the cynical and gloomy Uncle Vitya, it is Ilya Sobolev who is hiding. In defense of this theory, fans cited the following evidence: firstly, the image of Uncle Vitya was partly taken from Sobolev’s favorite film “Man on the Moon”, and secondly, in one of his speeches, Uncle Vitya’s voice broke, and the phrase he said “He’s no longer defender” was pronounced in a voice very similar to Sobolev. Having closely compared the photographs of Sobolev and Uncle Vitya, attentive viewers found similar details that makeup could not hide. 
Another proof that fans of domestic humor found is the show “Money or Shame.” Its host is Uncle Vitya, and on Ilya Sobolev’s VKontakte page official page this program appears almost at the highest place on his list of subscriptions.
Answer to the haters of the show “Money or Shame” from Uncle Vitya!
Ilya Sobolev in every possible way denied his involvement in the “Money or Shame” show. When MBAND participant Artem Pindyura, enraged by the show’s host’s phrase (“MBAND is a show for worms”), recorded a video message demanding an apology, Sobolev posted a response video, but not an “apologetic” one.
Music and cinema
Since 2009, Ilya has been closely involved in music. Together with the artist Andrian Sobolev, he recorded several humorous songs, including “Don’t Think,” “Gansta,” and “I’m Stupid.” Several songs remained on the charts of the Radio Record radio station for a long time.Sobolev Ilya and Andrian - I'm stupid
In 2017, Sobolev starred in the series “The Phantom of the Opera,” directed by Emil Nikoghosyan (“Moms 3,” “Champions”). The series tells the story of the friendship between police operative Alexei (Vyacheslav Evlantiev) and the ghost of the legendary swindler Pashka Veterok (Garik Kharlamov).
Personal life of Ilya Sobolev
Sobolev has been married for a long time. Ilya and his wife Natalya have two daughters - Eva and Sofia. 
Ilya Sobolev now
Sobolev continues to work in the Comedy Club show, tour the cities of Russia and foreign countries together with his trio, as well as giving private concerts and working as a presenter at various events.In September 2017, Sobolev joined the #TOPSHOWMEN project, a community of the best presenters from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Also in September 2017, Sobolev resumed publishing vlogs on his YouTube channel. In his videos, the comedian covers all the most relevant and eternal themes: old age, fears, show business stars, gay community, etc. In October 2017, Sobolev, along with other members of the Comedy Club, went on a tour of North America.
Ilya Sobolev “Bad jokes”
In the winter of 2018, the comedian announced a new show, “Prozharka,” which launched on the TNT4 channel. As part of the project, aspiring comedians and humor professionals made fun of a specific person throughout the episode. One of the first heroines of the program was Olga Buzova.
