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    OUR HUMOR IS JUST LIKE OUR COUNTRY, HRANT TOKHATIAN SAYS

    Noyan Tapan
    April 1, 2008

    YEREVAN, APRIL 1, NOYAN TAPAN. "The April 1 holiday of 2008 is not
    marked festively, as there is March 1 in this April 1," Aramayis
    Sahakian, the Chairman of the Union of Armenian Humorists, the
    editor-in-chief of the Vozni newspaper, said at the April 1 press
    conference meaning the March 1 events when eight demonstrants and one
    policemen died. He expressed the hope that next year April 1 will be
    marked solemnly and will give a smile to the Armenian people that has
    experienced many sufferings. Meanwhile A. Sahakian said that there
    are few "joyful" holidays on the Armenian calendar: and April 1 was
    officially proclaimed as a holiday of humor thanks to the former
    Prime Minister, late Andranik Margarian.

    According to Sukias Torosian, the Head of the Union of Cartoonists,
    at present "everything is in a satirical condition" and we do not
    have the cultural ideas we had formed formerly. "Our cartoonists,
    for instance, return with a victory from all international contests,"
    he said. According to S. Torosian, one of Armenian cartoonists has
    gained at once six medals in a contest held in China lately. However
    their talent and success, as S. Torosian added, do not contribute
    to increase of attention to caricature in Armenia. For instance,
    that branch of art is appreciated so highly in England that there is
    a museum of cartoons there.

    Actor Hrant Tokhatian said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union
    the Armenians renounced high-quality Soviet humor, but have failed
    to create their own humor so far. "Our humor or satire is just like
    our country," he concluded.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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