Serhii Chyrkov

Serhii Yuriyovych Chyrkov is a Ukrainian stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster, born on 10 September 1996 in Sumy, Ukraine. He spent part of his childhood in Russia before returning to Sumy, where he graduated from Sumy State University with a degree in philology. He began performing stand-up comedy in his home city before relocating to Kyiv, then the only Ukrainian city with a developing stand-up scene, and became a resident performer of the Pidpilnyi Standup (Underground Standup) collective in 2018. In 2019 he won the Kyiv International Stand Up Comedy Week. From 2019 to 2024 he worked as a screenwriter and co-host of the YouTube project Telebachennya Toronto, later continuing in similar roles on the show Ebaut. After around two years performing mainly in Russian, he switched to Ukrainian, releasing a solo program called Kvantovyi Strybok (Quantum Leap) in his native language. He also became known as a podcaster, co-hosting the literary podcast Zapakh Slova (The Smell of a Word) for the outlet Hromadske. On 30 September 2024, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chyrkov was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, joining the analytics and planning section of the 412th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade Nemesis, while remaining connected to Ukraine's stand-up comedy community.