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In my paper I present some arguments why comical texts were underestimated in history of literature. There are terminological, axiological, bound with context and ideological problems with the comicality. I propose to review a history of literature from 18th according to 4 comical discourses: satirical, ironical, grotesque and parodying. First one (typical for the 18th) is related to Hobbes theory of laughter and expresses subjects dominance over a criticized object, that is laughed at. Irony in its romantic type is aimed at subject itself and its laughter is auto ironical. Twenties century grotesque reveals subject as immersed in an absurd world. Grotesque laughter is hysterical. Subject in parody (typical for postmodernism) is immersed in textual world and laughs, because recognizes well-known and recontextualized conventions.