The comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family with a German delicatessen empire took top prize for best series at the French television festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Zweiflers ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- He might be persona non grata in Kazakhstan, but Borat, the crazed Central Asian TV reporter created by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, is a hero to the German comedy scene. By ...

German writer-director Frédéric Hambalek surprised everyone this year at the Berlinale with a comedy in Competition that ...

There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is the World War II era. That's when the Nazis sent Jewish entertainers to the death camps. And many non-Jewish German comedians ...

The glorious peculiarity of the German comedy “Toni Erdmann” resists easy categorization. What is it? Something about a tightly wound businesswoman and her relentlessly practical-joking father. But ...

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for Kiss Me Before It Blows Up, a quirky-looking German comedy about two generations of Israeli women; one falls for a German woman and the other for a Palestinian ...

Movie comedy lacks a wild streak. We get funny films occasionally, and certainly there are performers who can get nutsy in short spurts—as Melissa McCarthy’s instant-classic White House press-briefing ...

Go for Zucker: Comedy. Starring Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner. Directed by Dani Levy. (In German with English subtitles. Not rated. 95 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Comedians long ago realized ...

Germany and comedy have not been synonymous, to say the least, since World War II. But, now, German comedy is making a comeback. There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is ...