Narek Markarian
Narek Margaryan, a stand-up comedian, satirist and writer was born September 14th, 1983 in Yerevan. Since 2007 in cooperation with his friend, comedian and writer Sergey Sargsyan he wrote, directed and performed a series of stand up comedy shows under the title Comedy Night [1].
In 2009 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan started first satiric news site in Armenia, entitled ArmComedy - Armenian Comedy News Network [2], that runs satiric Onion-style articles. Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan give a fresh, funny and controversial [3] [4] interpretation of on current Armenian social and political developments.
In 2010 ArmComedy won ArmNet Award [5] for Armenian website with best content [6] [7]. Same year Narek Margaryan and [[Sergey Sargsyan] start producing satiric news show series for the Internet under the title 3D Update. After 19 episodes, the show was rebooted as NewsՀաբ and ran on CivilNet for 42 episodes peaking at 130 000 views for second pilot episodes.
In March, 2012 the show moved to ArmNews TV channel [8] where it currently runs under a new title ArmComedy [9]. It is the first show in Armenia to start as a web series and make a transition from web to mainstream television.
In 2013 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan wrote A Knight's Move,[10] their very first movie. In that comedy road movie a fictionall chess champion (Hovhannes Azoyan) gets hold of Temur Lang's ruby and is chased by an ancient and mystical Kazakh order hat wish to possess it.
Narek Margaryan holds a Ph.D. in English and was a professor at Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov [11] for 2 years. In 2011 after satiric sketch about the University appeared on Youtube [12] he was fired, despite of protests by students [13]. Ex-rector Suren Zolyan organized mass viewing of the sketch at a staff meeting.
External Links
- http://armcomedy.com - Armenian Comedy
- http://pomegranateexpress.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/armenian-customer-service-and-the-obizhnik/
- http://www.7or.am/blog/?p=904
- http://brusov.am/
- http://armcomedy.com/comedy-night/ - Comedy Night
- http://armnetawards.am/ - ArmNet Awards
- http://1in.am/arm/armenia_arts_3620.html - 1in
- http://panorama.am/am/economy/2010/12/04/armnet-awards/ - Panorama.Am
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTxvd16RDr0 - Youtube - Բրյուսովի դեկանատում
- http://www.epress.am/2011/04/12/%C2%AB%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B9%D5%AB-%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A8-%D5%B9%D5%A5%D5%B6-%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%9E%D6%82%D5%B4%C2%BB-%D5%A2%D6%80%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82.html - Epress.am
- http://media.am/Armcomedy-Armnews - Media.am
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83973AEA82A73347&feature=plcp
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3204366/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a - IMDB