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Genre | Sketch-Comedy/Hidden Camera |
Created by | Yuri Volodarsky & Alex Tarasul |
Directed by | Victor Yavnik |
Original language(s) | non-dialogue |
No. of seasons | 10 |
No. of episodes | 325 |
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Location(s) | Ukraine |
Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
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Original network | LNK Lithuania |
Original release | 2006 – present |
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Website |
Naked and Funny (in Russian: Голые и смешные) is a non-dialogue sketch-comedy/hidden camera reality television series. This wildly successful show was created by the writers of the sketch-comedy hit The Gentlemen Show which was successfully broadcast on two Russian National Television Channels RTR Ch. 2 (1991-1996) followed by ORT Ch. 1 (1997-2001) and back to Channel Russia (ex-RTR) (2002-2003) for a total of over 12 years. The Naked & Funny series contains 325 episodes (over 3000 original gags) with duration of 22 min each.
The first season of 24 episodes of Naked & Funny was produced in 2005. The Series premiered on LNK, the National Channel in Lithuania with a tremendous share of up to 47%. The show was then immediately commissioned by Viasat for its Russian TV channel, DTV. This tiny national channel hardly maintained an average 0.7-0.8% share at the time, but Naked & Funny brought ratings up to a 6% share in a slot from 11p-12a, which was nearly ten times higher than the average share of the channel.
At the same time the series was picked up by 1+1 Ukraine but after a few months, another Ukrainian National broadcaster commissioned all seasons to get the exclusive rights to the show for Ukraine. Following the success in Ukraine and other former USSR markets, the series was commissioned by many international broadcasters including Comedy Central in South Africa, The Netherlands and Germany, Paramount Comedy in the UK, Basque TV in Spain, etc.