Survey: Germans 'least funny nationality'

upi ^ | June 6, 2011

[Lazamataz]

[gov_bean_ counter]

I heard von Braun was the bomb...

[chuckee]

I agree. The American office as well as other American versions of British offshoot series are much funnier.However,Gervais can be good as a character in TV and cinema and also his standup can be pretty good. I thought he was very good in recent movie The History of Lying.I think he also wrote the screenplay for it.

[central_va]

Those nips can be a barrel of laughs.

[ckilmer]

Actually, the Amish are swiss in origin.

[Moltke]

Meh. Schweinhund voters. Your IP addresses hafe been registered. Just vait until next time. Ve vill show you 'funny' and *make* you laff. Har har har.

[brytlea]

Yeah. Of course, some things are only funny in cultural context. I wonder if Germans think other Germans are funny. It might depend on who the judges of who was funny were. And also, I bet 15 year old boys think other 15 year old boys are hysterically funny, but 45 year old female school teachers don’t think they are at all, etc. :) It’s a little subjective.

[brytlea]

I also wonder how much language has to do with it. By that I mean, does the language you grow up speaking affect your world view and does that affect things like your sense of humor? I don’t know if I”m making sense (I know what I mean but I’m not sure I’m conveying it).

[married21]

Some Poles have a great deadpan sense of humor. I have also laughed a lot with Indians, Japanese and Spaniards.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians.

The happiest man in the world drinks German beer, eats Chinese food, has a Japanese wife, and lives in the U.S.A.