Comments by "Julia P." (@juliap.5375) on "Learn Russian letters on the streets! (on the example of signboards)" video.
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@sumrose7972 I think the best way is movies with subtitles. Television series actually, because you hear the same voice of same actors for a long time (20-40-100 episodes), while movies de facto too short. And better not to watch historical movies where actors often talk not like nowadays (different structure of phrases, words order, outdated words, different means, Russians understand such language, it is really cool approach which put viewer in historical context, but it is not what you want when studying language). But not sure that it is easy approach for newbies (I’m Polish, Russian is similar with a lot of common words, so for me it was easy).
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@sumrose7972 I don’t know about first (even not found), while second show... it filmed by Star Media, they produce cheap movies for housewives over 50s.
First of all, you need to forget about youtube, on it possibly to find only videos for which nobody want to pay (like production of Star Media). You need torrents! :) One of the largest in post-USSR is rutracker. Or rutor-info (they often change name, better to open via Tor. I hope you know what is Tor?). Both have almost everything what produced in Russia, USA, some other countries. So, you can watch almost any movie (from Terminator to Game of Thrones) with Russian subtitles or voice, everything is always dubbed (in some countries dub is not popular, while in Russia otherwise, original soundtracks are rare, but always exist bunch of different dubs).
Comedies? Complicated question. You know, humor is not universal thing actually and a lot of jokes based on references to some culture aspects which unknown for foreigns. As example I watched American sitcom The Big Bang Theory with my American colleague, and in some non-funny scene he started to laugh. As he explained to me, actually in scene was reference to American movie from 1930s... How to get this? Impossibly.
There are tons of comedies, what exactly you want? For teens, adults, secondary genre? As universal comedy I strongly recommend Кухня (“The Kitchen” on Amazon). It is actually whole universe (6 seasons of main show, additionally 3 movies and 4 spin-off), they so popular, that own remakes made several countries, from Portugal to Georgia.
As something light I can recommend “Восьмидесятые”, but for it is hard to find subtitles. It is about life of students in late 1980s, light and very funny.
And last one “Мажор” (“Silver Spoon” on Netflix), it is detective, in general light, with a lot of humor (remind in something American “Castle”).
There are hundreds more of course (sadly it is hard to find subtitles), need to know what exactly you like, but I think “The Kitchen” and rest will be good start (at least enough for one year). And forget about Star Media, search better for shows of СТС and ТНТ, they produce by several funny tv shows per year.
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