In Lithuania the folk heros are usually serious, sad or poor, most of them doesn’t have special names, only the common description like „the third brother fool“, „neighbor“, „witch“ and so on. Historically they come mainly from folk fairy tales, myths or songs, however there existс kind of modern folk heroes, who are real personalities, like politicians, pop stars or any strange people, famous for thier unusual habits.
Actually these „heroes“ doesn’t make jokes by themselves, they’re quite serious about what they’re doing, thus usually their attitudes and behavior look as a complete absurd, so the society makes fun of them by itself. The way of doing this is kind of ironic, sometimes sarcastic, the point is to mock someone’s strange behaviour or the way of thinking. For example Lithuanians laugh at themselves because of myths that foreigners create about them:
Of course, there are common points between other nations’ folk heroes, as it is usual for every nation to be dissatisfied with their politicians or make fun of too extravagant stars.
Funniest accident in Istanbul for Lithuanians was being there, as together with other participants we were so creative to make jokes of everything as we couldn't stop laughing for hours.
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