Elena Vacvalová (67) together with Oliver Andrásy (68) they were a presenting couple on TV screens for many years, and many people thought that they were even married in private. In the well-known humorist from the show Aj múdry schybí explained how they met at university and that she thanks him for her career.
“It was on the first day of registration. That was something so special… Eňočka came from the countryside and I am there she was waiting at the window in the study department with the papers, but a man’s voice spoke from behind the row: ‘And this is what it looks like when our village comes here.’ So I turned around and there was Oliver, unknown to me at that time,” she revealed and continued.
“I looked at him and said: ‘If your village didn’t move here, you would degenerate here in Bratislava, and you are an example of that.’ This is how we met. When we cleared it all up, he came and told me that he was sorry, that he didn’t mean it that way and we ended up in a pub. And even after that we were classmates for four years,” said Vacvalová, adding that later he fundamentally influenced her life, when he took her from the magazine Kamarát to the editorial office of entertainment on the radio.
Elena Vacvalová was born into a teaching family on January 15, 1958 in Hnúšt-Likieri (Tisovec district). In high school, she played basketball for Slavia, was also involved in sports shooting and was also an active handball player. She performed in the school theater, created for the school magazine and radio. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University – majoring in television journalism.
After finishing school, she worked in the magazine Kamarát. Her professional beginnings date back to the period when entertainment shows were being prepared for Slovak Radio. Seasoned theater actors such as Stanislav Štepka and Milan Markovič worked in the entertainment editorial office at the time, who introduced her to the comedy industry. The entertainer considers a sense of humor to be a gift that helps the recipient to live life somehow easier, with greater insight and grace.
The humorist got the opportunity to appear on the television screen from public television, where she formed an inseparable pair with the humorist Oliver Andrásy in the show What the street can do. Together with their colleagues, they caught unsuspecting people with a hidden camera. Another successful project was Dereš, which was based on the comments of the always sitting trio of glossators and the confessions of top political representatives on an imaginary deresh.
The humorist replaced Rob Beň in the chair of the presenter of the show 7EDEM s ro, which after being taken over by another commercial television was renamed to Sedem and is still broadcast today with a break. Viewers were also attracted to the screens by another TV show called Aj múdry schybí. After 2012, the humorist and glossator decided to withdraw from television screens for some time. In her youth, she also had acting ambitions, but they were fulfilled only at her mature age in the film Andílek na nervy, which was released in Czech cinemas in 2015.
After some time, she returned to the screens with the Golden Times project, where, according to her, it was primarily a rare opportunity to look into the amazing and rich archive of Slovak Television and to reminisce and make a little joke along the way. The regular guest of the show was the Slovak actor and humorist Milan Lasica.
Elena Vacvalová is also an animal lover, participated in the campaign of the Freedom of Animals organization. She herself takes care of her pets – a dog and a cat. For years, he has been trying to build a park-like cemetery for animals in Bratislava. She lives in Bratislava with her second husband Juraj and daughter Elena from her first marriage. She likes to spend her free time in the garden, which for her is a space for both activity and relaxation.
