The article examines the poetics of the comic in M. Shketan's stories "Skis" and "Parachute", reflecting the clash of traditional village consciousness with new forms of Soviet culture and social life. The scientific novelty of the research results from the insufficient knowledge of these works in the aspect of comic poetics. The purpose of the work is to identify and describe the comic model of learning new things in the stories "Parachute" and "Skis" through the analysis of the character system, speech organization and plot repetitions. Materials and methods. The research material was the stories of M. Shketana "Parachute" and "Yeche" ("Ski"); structural-semantic and comparative-typological methods of literary text analysis are used. Research and discussion results. The main types of characters are identified (conservative narrator, bearer of a new consciousness, and collective observer); it is established that the comedy in both works is based on a similar plot model (the hero perceives the new as a threat, explains it through familiar everyday concepts, and gradually becomes involved in a new practice himself); It is shown that the comic effect is formed at the intersection of the verbal manner of narration, speech expression, hyperbolized fear, domestic decline and violation of cause-and-effect relationships. Conclusion. The comic in Shketan acts as a way of artistic understanding of a social turning point; laughter performs educational, characterological and adaptive functions.