Meie Mats, named after an Estonian folk song, is a prestigious yearly humour

Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement...

 award issued since 1987 and originally initiated by Edgar Spriit, the chief editor of Pikker, a long-time Estonian humour

Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement...

 magazine. The award is customarily announced on April 1, the April Fools Day, and it can only be awarded to any person once, in recognition of his life work in the field of humour

Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement...

, satire

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 and comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

.