Abstract：This paper compares Chernyshevsky's aesthetic theory of comedy with Hegel's. In the aspect of the essence of comedy, both Chernyshevsky and Hegel used dialectic method in analyzing the essence of comedy, and they both held that comedy should show negative content and that the content should have functions of social ethics and aesthetic education. But Chernyshevsky developed Hegel's theory. He pointed out clearly that ugliness was the essence of comedy. In the aspect of the forms of comedy, they took different attitudes toward satire but had the similar opinions on humor.
