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Political struggles, both inside and between political parties, have not uncommonly been a source of satire for the written press. Therefore, the interwar period does not make a discordant note, the magazines of satire and humour noticing the small personal quarrels between the members of the parties, as well as between the leaders of the most powerful parties. All this took place in a context in which with small steps anti- Semitism is progressively noticeable, and the fascist movements took strong roots in the countries close to Romania. The Transylvanian based (Cluj-Napoca city) magazine, Cucu (Cuckoo), surprises with humour, from a perspective that we can call "making fun of trouble", various political, social or economic situations that marked the period of the ‗30s in Romania. The purpose of the study is to bring to the public's attention how pamphleteers acknowledge the often-comical actions of politicians, the perversion of the political class, political backstage games, while ordinary citizens stared helplessly at the every so often, unfavourable changes around them. Last but not least, in these funny circumstances, real problems of the interwar society and political class come to light. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]