December 3, 2022 • 21 mins
Victoria Henley chats with world-renowned Ukrainian -American comedian, Yakov Smirnoff, about escaping the Soviet Union for a better life in America, why patriotism doesn’t have to be political, the unifying power of laughter, working in film and television alongside Meryl Streep, Robin Williams, and Jerry Seinfeld, helping bring down the Berlin Wall, and the #1 reason he will never run for President.
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