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3 | ''[=ArmComedy=]'' is an Armenian comedy NewsParody show which first aired on March 2012. It is aired thrice a week on the ATV channel. Starting as a satirical news website, it later evolved into a web series on [=CivilNet=] Internet TV channel. After two years creators of the show were invited to expand to network television. ''[=ArmComedy=]'' became "the first satiric news show in Armenia, dripped in political humor and wit, reporting the real news with a different perspective.". Every episode of ''[=ArmComedy=]'' is written and hosted by Armenian comedians Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan. It has been dubbed in press as "Armenia's version of ''Series/TheDailyShow''". |
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5 | On October 2015 Conan O'Brien was guest on ''[=ArmComedy=]'' during his trip to Armenia. He invited the hosts on his show if they ever visited America. In May 2017 ''[=ArmComedy=]'''s hosts Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan were on US standup tour were invited as guests on Series/{{Conan}}. |
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7 | The Armenian-language series is also available on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/armcomedyvideos here]]. An online English-language companion series, ''The Spyurk Report'', debuted in November 2017, and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXEGO3venaJd1tkW5hntTzg here]]. |
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12 | * CutAwayGag: These are frequent, sometimes involving sketches, or quotes from interviews. |
13 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: A common running gag is for the screen to suddenly go monochrome, making it look much like a recording from off of an old camcorder, and then have the hosts go off-script and be unaware that they're still being recorded. |
14 | * LeaveTheCameraRunning: A common gag on the show is for the screen to suddenly go DeliberateMonochrome, look like it was recorded on an old camcorder, and have the hosts seemingly go off-script and not know they are being recorded. |
15 | * NewsParody: The show is modeled after ''Series/TheDailyShow''. |
16 | * OneSteveLimit: Sergey Sargsyan joked about this when the new Armenian president Armen Sarkissian (essentially the same surname, just a different English spelling) was appointed by the then-Armenian Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan, claiming he was unrelated to them. |
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