Their debut on TV was characterized by episodic and several main roles in Maski Show, a series of silent comedy movies that put slapstick and eccentricity into sitcom-style storytelling.

The name was motivated by the actors' specialization — three clowns and two comics, like in the poker hand, and a pun, which they roughly translate on Russian as "house full of fools".

It was accepted with a request to change the name and the Cabaret-inspired appearance of the host character (Yuri Stytskovsky); yet he is still seen in the opening title sequence of the final version.

The show was renamed to Calambur, with the changing of several lines in the closing theme song, and sketches with host and makeup artist (Aleksey Agopyan) were reshot.

In early in 2001, after the broadcast of its sixth season, with the unanimous decision of the cast and producer, production of show was stopped and Calambur was soon ended.

Aleksey Agopyan has since participated in various Ukrainian and Russian movies and TV series (mostly in episodic roles), including Stytskovsky's projects, and several theatrical performance, sometimes with the mentioned comic groups and in the duet Odekolon with former Maski actor Vladimir Komarov.

In 2003 Gladkov, Nabokov and Agopyan planned to make a Fool's Village spin-off about Muzhik and Moryachok being at the North Pole with a polar bear, but it didn't rise for unknown reasons.

In the third and fourth seasons this gag was replaced with just Host alone, who introduced sketches via a giant illustrated magazine and sometimes appeared in various suits, talking with puns about his "new TV series in the making", or interacting with an audience of caricatured cardboard people.

The Nose Dive (Russian: Крутое пике) is a parody on American disaster films with all characters talking broken English with VHS-esque one-voice translation and occasionally breaking the fourth wall.

Starring..." Iron Kaput (Russian: Железный капут) was created as a replacement for The Nose Dive, sharing similar touches (long intro, German speech with dub translation and footage of transport between sketches), but remained only for one season.

It is based on characters and early performances of Magazine «Foo» and is set as a silent slapstick comedy with clowns (in later seasons they have high-pitched dialogue).