A little blast from the past: Yakov Smirnoff is a comedian who had a moderately popular run in the mid 1980's. He is Ukrainian-American and was known for jokes that made fun of the differences between culture and language in the US and the USSR. It is likely he was the inspiration for much of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat.
Here's a great clip of Yakov Smirnoff from HBO's 9th Annual Young Comedians Show.
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