KVN Major League
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Seasons
Season 1
8 episodes
1986
Season 2
7 episodes
1987
Season 3
5 episodes
1989
Season 4
7 episodes
1990
Season 5
8 episodes
1991
Season 6
10 episodes
1992
Season 7
9 episodes
1993
Season 8
10 episodes
1994
Season 9
10 episodes
1995
Season 10
13 episodes
1996
Season 11
12 episodes
1997
Season 12
13 episodes
1998
Season 13
13 episodes
1999
Season 14
12 episodes
2000
Season 15
12 episodes
2001
Season 16
12 episodes
2002
Season 17
12 episodes
2003
Season 18
12 episodes
2004
Season 19
12 episodes
2005
Season 20
12 episodes
2006
Season 21
12 episodes
2007
Season 22
12 episodes
2008
Season 23
12 episodes
2009
Season 24
12 episodes
2010
Season 25
13 episodes
2011
Season 26
13 episodes
2012
Season 27
14 episodes
2013
Season 28
13 episodes
2014
Season 29
15 episodes
2015
Season 30
15 episodes
2016
Season 31
14 episodes
2017
Season 32
15 episodes
2018
Season 33
15 episodes
2019
Season 34
14 episodes
2020
Season 35
17 episodes
2021
Season 36
16 episodes
2022
Season 37
15 episodes
2023
Season 38
15 episodes
2024
Season 39
16 episodes
2025
Season 40
8 episodes
2026