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Narek Margaryan
Narek Margaryan (, ) (born September 14, 1983 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is an Armenian comedian, screenwriter and TV host.
Since 2007 with his friend, comedian and writer Sergey Sargsyan he wrote, directed and performed a series of stand up comedy shows.
In 2009 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan started ArmComedy  first satiric news site in Armenia giving a fresh, funny and controversial   interpretation of on current Armenian social and political developments. In 2010 ArmComedy won ArmNet Award  for Armenian
Narek Margaryan holds a PhD in English and was a professor at Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov  for 2 years. In 2011 after satiric sketch about the University appeared on Youtube  he was fired, despite of protests by students . Ex-rector Suren Zolyan organized mass viewing of the sketch at a staff meeting. Margaryan returned to university once a new rector was appointed.
In 2013 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan wrote screenplay for The Knight's Move, their very first feature movie. In that road movie comedy