Is there anything similar to Limericks in Russian?

[Leslie Farmer]

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
in a form which is quite economical,
but the good ones I've seen
so seldom are clean,
and the clean ones so seldom are comical!

(author unknown...to me, anyway.

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