Alexander Alexandrovich Ivanov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ивано́в; December 9, 1936 — June 12, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian teacher, poet-parodist, permanent host of the cult[1][2] TV show Around Laughter  [ru] in the Soviet Union (1978-1991).

[3] Ivanov was born in Moscow into an artist's family.

In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Drawing of the Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities.

He worked as a teacher of drawing and descriptive geometry.

Ivanov owns a number of articles, pamphlets, notes.