JOKES ABOUT GODFATHERS IN UKRAINIAN LAUGHTER CULTURE CONTEXT

The article aims to analyze jokes in Ukrainian laughter culture context. It stresses on the chosen topic relevance and researchers' growing in- terest national identity, character, spiritual specific features various phenomena associated with humor, satire, picture of world. attempts determine place peculiarities a separate series modern jokes, i.e. about godfathers. Special attention is paid joke as cultural phenomenon which due folk signs presence it: manifestations human life parody when its ideals values are humiliated, moral standards devalued affirm opposite positive ones, absurd way realities presentation. authors mechanism comic effect occurrence becomes possible under certain conditions person's everyday countless little things generate situation result inconsistency expected true communication man society. discrepancy between what has already gone but keeps pretending be alive creates effect. study notes that own peculiarities. They lack devastating reflection, good-naturedness, life- affirming nature, benevolence, self-irony. special godfathers among emphasized. Those united one by their main participants events filled mental humor flavor. concept 'godfather' mentality revealed. demonstrates concrete examples comedy mechanism, character traits embodiment godfather's image, ways, technics analysis selected material shows best men an important component Ukrainians. Jokes require further in-depth research, generalization systematization. Investigations can have different directions, including means creating comic, dedicated detection functions joke, genre features.