Vasily Medvedev is someone who knows how to combine family complications with an unobtrusive premonition of the end of the world. In the concert "30 Silvers" the themes of polygamy, maternal dictate and nuclear future are intertwined, and lives, desires and apocalypse are diluted with nervous humor - as if you were looking into the abyss and trying to tell a joke out of habit.
Here anxiety becomes a reason for sarcasm, and the function of stand-up is not to add meaning, but to show that everything works without it. In a world where sex, time and global catastrophes are intertwined in an absurd tangle, Medvedev discreetly reminds us that things are already pretty bad - but no one forbade us to laugh.
