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After doing a parody on a presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the early 1990s, Zhirinovskiy said that when he would become a president, Khazanov will be the first person to be shot. That didn't scare Khazanov who, for his next concert, dressed in the prison uniform wearing number 00001 on his chest. Zhirinovskiy later failed to be elected Russian president, losing to Boris Yeltsin.

He was one of the few famous stand-up comedians in the former Soviet Union who started doing parodies of famous people at an early age.

He and his wife Zlata Elbaum are the parents of Russian-American actress Alisa Khazanova.

As a theatrical director he made his debut with the work "Little Tricks of Life" (1980).

In the 1996 elections, Khazanov was Boris Yeltsin's confidant person.

In 2013-2014 Khazanov was the chairman of the jury of the parody show "Repeat!" On the First Channel.

Since 1997, Khazanov heads the Moscow Estrada Theater.

Khazanov played in known solo performances "Obvious - incredible", "Mighty tragedies", "Yesterday, today, tomorrow", "Favorites", "Other people's jubilees".

Khazanov took part in one of the issues of NTV's "To the Barrier" program as Vladimir Zhirinovsky's opponent.

March 4, 2003 Khazanov took part in the first issue of the program "Basic Instinct".

Since March 6, 2011 Khazanov is the host of the program "Family sentence" on TV3 channel.

The authors of Khazanov's monologues were Arkady Khite, Mikhail Gorodinsky, Semyon Altov, Lyon Izmailov, Marian Belenky, Viktor Shenderovich and other well-known satirical writers.

In 2013 Khazanov was a member of the jury of the parody show "One to One!".