Abstract
The article analyses representation of the comic phenomenon in the Russian-language literature of Kazakhstan of the late XX - early XXI century. The research objective is as follows: to describe functions of laugh as a basis of the comical by the material of a certain author’s creative work. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the researcher for the first time reveals representation of laughing elements in U. Tazhikenova’s creative work. The conducted research allows concluding that laugh performs two key functions - characterological and axiological; the second conclusion is that U. Tazhikenova’s prose is characterized by the following forms of the comical: sarcastic laugh that symbolizes ridiculization of a certain phenomenon, event or personage; laugh as personages’ characteristic; laugh as a means to describe the phenomenon of chance.