German Humor

Comedy is a staple of german culture with many germans making light of situations in social conversation and with a large amount of time allotted to comedy in german television broadcasting.

German humor. Believe it or not germans love to laugh just not at the same things english speakers do. Gentle jokes about national stereotypes are beloved as are wordplays puns jokes with misdirection or mistakes in logic and absurdist humour anything but the act of teasing each other which is the foundation of english language humour. According to the cliché germans have no sense of humor. What is the difference between an english pensioner a french pensioner and a german pensioner.

The english pensioner reads the times while eating breakfast and then goes to the golf club. Bavarian and austrian if they can be counted here humor is more down to earth and gritty while the western germans seem to carry their karneval fasching fastnacht mardi gras carnival lightheartedness in all their comedy. Top 20 german jokes list 1. The belief has often been spread by english speaking observers but perhaps the jokes were simply lost somewhere in cultural translation.

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