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 The degrees of thousands of rich kids are about to get a little less valuable. Or at least a little funnier.
Yakov Smirnoff is graduating from Penn.
The 1980s Russian comedian, who’s so funny he’s built his own theater in Branson, Mo., isn’t planning on opening up a practice or anything like that. No, he’s planning on using his M.S. in psychology for good, according to the Inquirer:
Smirnoff has a mission: To use his act and his books to help launch what he Voltairishly calls the “Age of Enlaughterment,” a family-friendly Age of Aquarius where love and laughter heal all our pyshic scars.
Sporting professorial garb and a neatly trimmed beard, grad student Smirnoff fits in beautifully with the academicos at the generic McCafe next to the Penn Bookstore. He’s wired and animated, a brainier version of Dr. Phil, keen on discussing hormones, the nature of love, how to run a business.
“I find the quest I’m on allows me to reach different levels of intelligence and sophistication,” multifaceted Smirnoff says. “I can take those global ideas [about love and laughter] and boil them down to simplicity.
“And I believe that I can make a difference.”
I think we’ve entered into a new age of comedy and pleasure. I’m pumped. Thanks, Mr. Smirnoff. Thanks.
Yakov Smirnoff Gets Penn Degree [AP/6 ABC]
Yakov Smirnoff’s back - philosophically speaking [Inky]
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