For you Tommy, zee joke is over!

[Sciroccology]

Germany celebrates its sense of humour with comedy museum

Museum Curator said:

"We have only just opened the museum because until now we didn't have enough comedy to put in it."

[Penny-lope]

will they ever?

I am sinking not

[steveo29]

a coast guard receives a distress call from a ship at sea: "Help, help, we are sinking." The coast guard replies: "Dass ist very interesting. Vot exactly are you sinking?

edit: third time of reading it i got it,,,,,,, just....not....funny.

Edited by steveo29 on Thursday 9th October 04:36

[MrVelox]

Sciroccology said:

Germany celebrates its sense of humour with comedy museum

Museum Curator said:

"We have only just opened the museum because until now we didn't have enough comedy to put in it."

So, how much to enter said closet?

[XJSJohn]

MrVelox said:

Sciroccology said:

Germany celebrates its sense of humour with comedy museum

Museum Curator said:

"We have only just opened the museum because until now we didn't have enough comedy to put in it."

So, how much to enter said closet shoebox?

[sadako]

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

[Jasandjules]

sadako said:

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

Germans tend to have a pretty good sense of humour IME.

I don't think any other Nation in the world quite has the British sense of humour though..

[DJC]

Ironically enough the Germans are probably one of our best export markets for British comedy products. The Germans love British humour.

[Yertis]

sadako said:

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

Apparently they laugh most at people getting hurt, eg when someone falls off a pavement or walks into a lamp-post.



Actually I laugh at those things too...



I'm sure our resident huns will be along shortly to correct me.

[OJ]

Only German I've met that had a sense of humour was my Orthodontist... work that one out!

[Asterix]

Yertis said:

sadako said:

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

Apparently they laugh most at people getting hurt, eg when someone falls off a pavement or walks into a lamp-post.



Actually I laugh at those things too...



I'm sure our resident huns will be along shortly to correct me.

That's why thy have a specific word for it - Shadenfreuda

[Monki]

Of all the countries in the world, I found that the germans are most similar to us in sense of priorities and humour (e.g spending all day drinking beer )

[Asterix]

Monki said:

Of all the countries in the world, I found that the germans are most similar to us in sense of priorities and humour (e.g spending all day drinking beer )

Canadians are very similar as well (apart from the frenchie ones, well, beacause, they're french)

[merc_man]

Most of the Germans I've met are extremely adept at taking the piss.

[Spokey]

Asterix said:

Yertis said:

sadako said:

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

Apparently they laugh most at people getting hurt, eg when someone falls off a pavement or walks into a lamp-post.



Actually I laugh at those things too...



I'm sure our resident huns will be along shortly to correct me.

That's why thy have a specific word for it - Shadenfreuda

Or even "schadenfreude".

[GJB]

Come on guys you're not taking this seriously.

Remember that Spike Milligan did say "The German sense of humour is no laughing matter".

[aclivity]

What's the German word for 'lighthearted'?

[Adenauer]

steveo29 said:

a coast guard receives a distress call from a ship at sea: "Help, help, we are sinking." The coast guard replies: "Dass ist very interesting. Vot exactly are you sinking?

edit: third time of reading it i got it,,,,,,, just....not....funny.

Edited by steveo29 on Thursday 9th October 04:36

"of", might have helped

[RedLeicester]

Asterix said:

Yertis said:

sadako said:

Germany has humour, just different from ours. I reckon it is probably because German doesn't seem to lend itself to word puns very well...

Apparently they laugh most at people getting hurt, eg when someone falls off a pavement or walks into a lamp-post.



Actually I laugh at those things too...



I'm sure our resident huns will be along shortly to correct me.

That's why thy have a specific word for it - Shadenfreuda

Erm.... schadenfreude? Taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. Can't help thinking it's not unique to the germans, else the vast majority of women's trashy mags, the Sun, Mirror et al wouldn't exist, nor would the current obsession with fly-on-the-wall "documentaries" and endless "Jungle Island Brother X Factor Out Of Here Big Scheisse" programs.

Edited by RedLeicester on Thursday 9th October 10:12

[Ledaig]

steveo29 said:

a coast guard receives a distress call from a ship at sea: "Help, help, we are sinking." The coast guard replies: "Dass ist very interesting. Vot exactly are you sinking?

edit: third time of reading it i got it,,,,,,, just....not....funny.

Edited by steveo29 on Thursday 9th October 04:36

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