Making fun of power

The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They are forms of humour can be examined an interdisciplinary manner. first part describes theoretical aspects, functions, elements satire, main features types In the second part, corpus 198 1121 memes from March 2019 to December 2020 is analysed computer-aided content analysis multimodal discourse analysis. units social context, formed by domestic foreign events Ukraine research period, joke techniques communication levels These chronologically thematically. based on hypothesis about interdependence context subversive/supportive construction Zelensky’s image.