Peculiarities of Spanish humor and ways to preserve it while translating Spanish talk shows

The article considers the concept of the comic and its role in the context of the modern society. The changes produced in the Spanish humor are observed in the historical context of Spain, the conclusions are made about the dependence of humor on socio-political phenomena that take place during a particular period. Some parts of talk show dialogues are analyzed in order to demonstrate some of the treats of the contemporary Spanish humor. Some difficulties in translation of comic utterances into Russian are showed. There are some specific ways of such translation proposed in the article.