The comic and laughter, humor and grotesque, have been issues addressed in recent times with various perspectives and different approaches. The comedian occupies a central place in contemporary culture and is a cesthetic category that marks the development of modernity. D'Angeli and Paduano study carefully the comic matter and its mechanism in a book that deeply calls for the wealth and variety of "material" contributed, by its inflexible attachment to dramatic and literary texts, which configure a plot In which we can perceive the different faces of the comic.