Nekotorye drevnie mysliteli schitali, chto cheloveka mozhno opredelit' kak "zhivotnoe, umeyuschee smeyat'sya". I dumaetsya, v kakoj-to stepeni byli pravy, ibo ne tol'ko umenie hodit' na dvuh nogah i trudovaya deyatel'nost' vydelili lyudej iz zhivotnogo mira, pomogli vyzhit' i projti cherez vse myslimye i nemyslimye ispytaniya mnogotysyacheletnej istorii, no i sposobnost' smeyat'sya. Potomu-to umevshie rassmeshit' pol'zovalis' populyarnost'yu vo vse veka i u vseh narodov. Koroli mogli sebe pozvolit' derzhat' pri dvore shutov, a prostoj lyud sobiralsya na ploschadyah, chtoby posmotret' predstavleniya stranstvuyuschih komediantov ili skomorohov., Interesno, chto so vremenem poyavilsya titul korolya smeha. Im nagrazhdali teh, kto dostigal naibol'shih uspehov v etom iskusstve. S kontsa pervogo desyatiletiya nashego veka v Rossii nigde ofitsial'no ne utverzhdennyj titul korolya smeha prinadlezhal Arkadiyu Averchenko.
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