The phenomenon of Soviet film comedies is so amazing and incomprehensible that it has not been solved to this day. The overwhelming number of viewers of different ages consider them unsurpassed, perfect, representing the standard of sincere, pure and bright humor. Films with the participation of Yuri Nikulin, Evgeny Leonov, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Georgy Vitsin, Frunzik Mkrtchan and many other “kings of Soviet laughter” can be watched countless times. They never get boring, they are extremely positive and carry an incomparable charge of kind, affectionate and cozy energy. In addition to the widely known and beloved comedians and comedians, the USSR had hundreds of outstanding and simply talented representatives of the “fun genre”, capable of satisfying the most sophisticated taste. And today’s humor, according to the author of this biographical study, for the most part does not create a smile on people’s faces, but a vulgar grin or even a grimace of shame. Why? What happened to domestic humor? Fyodor Razzakov reflects on this in his book.