Types of Short Comic Texts in the Uzbek and English Languages

Article is attempt of the taxonomical description of the texts which are a part of "a small genre": jokes, anecdotes and other national and folklore work which represent oral ridiculous story about an event with a witty ending. The author compares substantial characteristics Uzbek "latifa" to an English joke (anecdote) and a joke (joke) and reveals their universal and ethnopeculiar features.