The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the meaning and function of laughter and humor with using the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. In the introductory part, a fundamental philosophical characteristic shared by all three philosophers is stated: the interweaving of thinking, life with work and philosophy. In Nietzsche and Bergson, the latter represents the foundation of the comic. Deleuze, however, acts as a mediator between the first two and fundamentally explains their philosophies. In the core, Nietzsche's and Bergson's conceptions of laughter and humor and the comic are widely discussed. It is described how Nietzsche appeared as the one who expressed all the complexity of laughter and its involvement in life, while Bergson dealt with laughter from a more general aspect, its technical characteristics and its impact on society. In both, it is possible to see that laughter has a socio-cultural and subjective role in life. At the same time, it is indicated in the core that Deleuze joined Nietzsche's and Bergson's path as an enthusiast of their philosophy. He tried to explain and revive their names and in this case their humour and laughter, the latter especially in Nietzsche, in his works »Nietzsche« and »Nietzsche and Philosophy«. In the conclusion, the fundamental common characteristics of philosophers, especially Nietzsche and Bergson, are highlighted. The main finding is that Nietzsche and Bergson work as a perfect pair, with Nietzsche addressing the ontological side of laughter and Bergson the technical. The thesis concludes with my own four observations about laughter and the comic, which directly relate the philosophy of two 19th century philosophers. All my four findings can be summed up in a single statement: laughter teaches us humanism. At the same time, I also wonder why laughter was the most talked about in the 19th century, and it turns out that the reason for this is precisely the fundamental change in human life due to the interweaving of human life with new ways of thinking, philosophy, art and science. The latter brings us back to our original thesis of this work, that the basis of the comic is always a kind of detachment from the flow of life, or better, the interweaving of life and thought.
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