Even animals, as specialists assert, are able to laugh. Laughter - both merry and glad, or wicked or breaking through tears - of yore accompanies people. A man not able to laugh looks strange, bitterly it lives him in the world. Maybe, for this reason yet people for that art to cause a laughter was one of basic employments appeared on sunset civilizations. The names some from them were done by denominative and to this pores live in an everyday language. A laughter became part of inalienable philosophy and searches of sense of life. Research of professor of history А. first published in modern orthography Газо about jesters and buffoonery it was printed in France as early as 1882, and his Russian translation appeared in 1898, executed Н. Федоровой. The special value Russian edition is given by the additional essay of history of laughter and buffoon on Rus since Middle ages and up to times of Peter First and Ann Иоанновны. Wise Aesop, enchanting personages of the Italian comedy of masks, caustic Панч unlucky and simultaneously sly Ходжа Насреддин, shifty Балакирев. The rudeness of dispositions neighbors with a high mind, and buffoon societies of late middle Ages with crowds of the Russian buffoons are collected under one cover and open to the reader almost unknown to us today side of the past.