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Um, hero of the day: Yakov Smirnoff

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After you bust your ass being a Cold War paragon of cultural humor, it's time to get serious and help others. After all those years of making us laugh—and heartily!—the comedian will now make us cry, on purpose, maybe while we're prone on his couch.

Today Smirnoff graduates from University of Pennsylvania with an M.S. in psychology, which he's planning to use to promote an "Age of Enlaughterment"—and no, I am totally not making that up.

In Graduate School Of Psychology, Tests Psychoanalyze You! [Philadelphia Will Do]

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.