Non-Germans are often at a loss with Loriot, as much a collective cultural campfire as comedian. You can bring such evenings to swift end by suggesting that most of Loriot’s jokes have dated badly, ...

This piece in The New Republic is a bit of a mess. Jacob Silverman writes about how impossible it is to make a living doing freelance journalism, the “indignities that no worker should have to go ...

There are no prizes for guessing whose face features on the poster for the first German edition of Charlie Hebdo which will appear on newsstands in Berlin and Vienna on Thursday. Chancellor Angela ...

Wat zo funni about ze Germans, you ask? I’ll tell you (but only if you read this entire article with a German accent in your head)... I am German, I was born in Hamburg, grew up in New York and my ...

The German ambassador to the UK has insisted that his country does find John Cleese's infamous Fawlty Towers episode 'The Germans' funny due to its 'awkwardness'. Miguel Berger said he 'liked the ...

p There are no prizes for guessing whose face features on the poster for the first German edition of Charlie Hebdo which will appear on newsstands in Berlin and Vienna on Thursday. Chancellor Angela ...

Claudia Sandberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

EVA ULLMANN took her master’s degree in 2002 on the part that humour has to play in psychotherapy, and became hooked on the subject. In 2005 she founded the German Institute for Humour in Leipzig. It ...

Vorsprung durch Slapstick. Germans will always laugh at the old cake trick. He's very creative and makes me laugh. I think it's hard to find anyone that can make you laugh nowadays. I learned quite a ...

“There is good German humour and there is German humour that is awful. But the image of the totally inhibited German with no humour at all is quite wrong.” You have to talk about humour with Robert ...