The "sz" will probably throw any any non-Magyar speaker and unless you are taught how to say it as a baby - about 13, you'll never be able to.
And then you threw in one heck of long, non-name word ( your "joke" relied on names of people AND without any examples, the "joke" is in bad taste! ); German and Welsh have quite a few crazy, long, just about unpronounceable to the non-speaker of those languages too.
Mass. and N.H. have quite a few Welsh places names that someone, who knows/lives there. has to tell you how to pronounce, because the spellings are INSANE/worse than anything you posted. ;^)
I have a great sense of humor; your joke just wasn't really funny. Silly perhaps, confusing to those who have no idea what an Hungarian name looks or sounds like; but funny? Not really.
Forget knowing what an Hungarian or someone of Hungarian ancestry looks like, for the majority of Americans! Some might know a name here and there from old movies and/or T.V. shows ( Ilona Massey, Bela Lugosi, Vilma Banki, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ernie Kovacs, Mitzi Gaynor, Paul Lukas ), but they have seen many with Americanized or changed names, which I did not list.
The names, above, that I listed, wouldn't fit your "joke" at all. See? ;^)
> "The names, above, that I listed, wouldn't fit your "joke" at all."
Oh, but some of the names I found would fit just fine. Eg, a line on an eye chart like:
P O T Y N C Z A
And whether you can prove that no such eye chart exists is irrelevant to the humor. Humor exaggerates greatly by painting scenarios that haven't and can't happen. It wouldn't be nearly as funny if it didn't.
Imagine sitting in a room while everyone else is laughing at a punch line and saying, "Hey, that's not funny! Because it's not possible this could happen, so it's just silly. Everyone knows dogs can't talk! So I don't understand why you all think it's funny?"
Yes, humor is in the eye of the beholder. And you are the only one who ever told me they didn't think that one was funny.
Here's an example of how humor is perceived: There's a very funny short audio clip that makes fun of engineers (google "theknack.wav") that I've played for people or forwarded them since around 1995-6. Everyone, especially including engineers, have thought it was funny.
The only time I ever heard otherwise was from my sister, who was playing it for a number of her co-workers, who included mostly soft IT people, data entry people, and exactly one engineer. Everyone laughed heartily at it, except the engineer, who thought it wasn't funny at all. No doubt it was the context of the group of listeners that made him perceive it that way. I think if he was in a group of fellow engineers who heard it, and everyone else thought it funny, he would have as well. FYI, here's one location: The Knack, sound file (wav)
Yes, the Hungarians have nothing on the Welsh when it comes to long place names.
I can't believe I actually once traveled out of my way to stop at the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch just so I could say I've been there and buy a few postcards.