This article presents a comparative-typological analysis of artistic style and psychological depiction in the short stories of the prominent Uzbek satirist Neʼmat Aminov and the renowned Turkish writer Aziz Nesin. The aim of the study is to identify the internal psychological and stylistic mechanisms of comic interpretation in both authors’ works and to provide a scientifically grounded account of their similarities and differences. The research draws on psychoanalytic, formalist and dialogic theoretical frameworks, along with comparative-typological and hermeneutic methods. The short stories “The Butcherʼs Dog” (Qassob boboning iti), “The Fake Guest” (Soxta mehmon) and “The Prophecy” (Bashorat) by Nemat Aminov, “The Bearʼs Gratitude” (Ayiqning tashakkuri),”So, What Happened?” (Xoʻsh, nima boʻldi) and “Elephant Hamdi” (Fil Hamdu) by Aziz Nesin were selected as the research corpus. The findings demonstrate that Aminovʼs prose is dominated by an implicit (“closed”) comic model built on folk humor, character-based comedy, and psychological portraiture through everyday detail, whereas Nesinʼs style relies on an explicit (“open”) model grounded in logical incongruity, satirical-absurdist depiction, and sharp criticism of bureaucracy. The article provides evidence-based confirmation that the psychological foundation of the comic lies in the discrepancy between a characterʼs inner state and outward behavior; it also proves the linguopoetic nature of comedy and the varying receptive distance according to the principle of “identification and distance”. The results may serve as a methodological basis for further research in comparative literary studies and the theory of the comic.