Which personalities do we love the most? Undoubtedly, the people who make us laugh. Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Feydeau, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, Monty Python, Mr. Bean, the great Greek comedians, are always dear to us and we seek their company because they give us the most precious gift: laughter. With these wonderful people, their works and their technique, this rich in photographic material, knowledge and information, book familiarizes us. It approaches the theories and mechanisms of laughter, makes a historical retrospective of the history of refined laughter, in literature, theater, cinema and other spectacles (circus, vaudeville, musical hall, etc.), dissects the structure and themes of cinematic comedy, farce, comedy and musical comedy, and presents in detail, for the first time in Greek and international bibliography, the typology of all kinds of jokes (pranks, gags, jokes, etc.).