His work includes parodies of Russian and Soviet politicians, and mockery of various sub-cultural groups in modern Russia.

[1] After graduating from the Moscow Circus School in 1969, Khazanov worked as a master of ceremonies in Leonid Utyosov Orchestra.

He gained early success with monologues of a culinary school student written by Lion Izmailov and Iurii Volovich, and of a brave parrot who cannot stop telling the truth written by Arkady Khait.

[2] In 1999, he was president of the Security Foundation of the Russian Jewish Community, which was set up to coordinate action against antisemitism in Moscow.

[4] In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of Putin's position on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.