ComedyNerd: 11 Things We Never Knew About Ukraine's President Zelensky

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ComedyNerd: 11 Things We Never Knew About Ukraine's President Zelensky

Yes, President Zelensky is all over everyone's timeline as the foremost defender of the free world. But before he became a modern-day Winston Churchill, Zelensky had a pretty incredible career for someone who's trying to save 44 million people from a brutal dictator. We're talking about stuff like ...

PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ZELENSKY BECAME PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE A MONTH AFTER HIS SHOW ENDED. The show, Servant of the People, aired its finale in 2019 - around a month before Zelensky, its star, was elected president.

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Love in the Big City

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY HAD QUITE A FEW ROLES IN UKRAINIAN ROM-COMS. РУССКОЕ РАДИО Не played Igor in 2008's Love in the Big City, 2010's Love in the Big City 2, and 2014's Love in Vegas.

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D'Artagnan

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BESIDES COMEDY, PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAD AN ACTING CAREER, TOO. His first role was apparently as D'Artagnan in 2005's The Three Musketeers.

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A HOUSEHOLD NAME

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM EVEN BEFORE НЕ BECAME PRESIDENT, ZELENSKY WAS A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN UKRAINE. Не wasn't some obscure comedian trying to make it big, or something - he got famous in the late '90s and early '00s via comedy competition shows, and he had his own show by 2005.

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Servant of the People

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM ZELENSKY PLAYED A UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ON TV BEFORE НЕ BECAME ONE. In his TV show Servant of the People, he was a schoolteacher who criticized the government in a video clip that went viral, and he eventually became elected president because of that video clip.

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NAPOLEON

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE UKRAINIAN MOVIE RZHEVSKIY PROTIV NAPOLEONA, ZELENSKY PLAYED NAPOLEON. The movie (in English, Corporal vs. Napoleon), shows Napoleon during his invasion of Russia.

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DANCING WITH THE STARS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PRESIDENT ZELENSKY APPEARED ON DANCING WITH THE STARS IN UKRAINE. Which kind of makes viewing those episodes pretty surreal now - and, by the way, he even won Season 1 (back in 2006).

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