Zelenskyy created and headed the Kvartal 95 team in 1997, which later transformed into a comedy outfit, Kvartal 95. This company performed in the major leagues and in the highest open Ukrainian league of KVN from 1998 to 2003. The team members had to constantly tour around post-Soviet countries for performances. Later, from 2003, the company got into producing TV shows for the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 and later switched to another Ukrainian channel, Inter, in 2005.