The popularity of the works of Babel, Ilf and Petrov, Kataev, Olesha, which has not diminished over the years, the continuing brilliant work of Mikhail Zhvanetsky, the humorous magazine “Fontan”, which has been published in Odessa for almost 20 years, has favored the emergence of new talented authors in the “Capital of Humor”, writing in a fun genre. We present to our readers the works of some of them. Some of these names are familiar to you, some are not. But we hope that the stories, poems and miniatures presented in this book will not only worthily continue the Odessa literary traditions, but will also become the favorite reading of true fans of real Odessa humor...

The monologue of my old friend, delivered by him in the carriage - restaurant of the Odessa - Moscow train, where my wife and I went to drink a glass of tea, and he went to drink all the cognac available there