About the book: 2001 / There is an opinion that a person became a person when he acquired a sense of humor. It was this that was the main feature that distinguished it from the animal world. If we try to compile an encyclopedia of human laughter, then we will have to start counting it from time immemorial. More than 2000 years - such is the amplitude of the history of human laughter involved in this book: from Sophocles to the Armenian Radio. Read and laugh with us.