Presentado en las Jornadas sobre "El humor (y los humores) en el mundo antiguo", organizado por el Departamento de Estudios Clásicos y el Instituto de Ciencias de la Antigüedad de la UPV y celebrado en Vitoria-Gasteiz los días 16 y 17 de octubre de 2007.What laughed the viewers of the comedy? What was played at the scene? To try to answer these questions on the poetry of the comedy, in this article discusses the genesis and the conditions of pleasure comedian and humour from the perspective of psychoanalysis, from the contribution of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Both doctors, psychiatrists, argued the difference between comicalness and humour, both by the resources they use respectively as by the position of subjective which are demonstration.Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV05/1