Germans voted least funny in global survey

[Provost]

[QUOTE=Mr. N;30439320]Ukrainians are hilarious

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rJLtz64Hg&feature=channel_video_title[/media][/QUOTE]

:psyduck:

[toaster468]

[QUOTE=Mr. N;30439320]Ukrainians are hilarious

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rJLtz64Hg&feature=channel_video_title[/media][/QUOTE]

How is this funny?

[Soleeedus]

[QUOTE=Mr. N;30439320]Ukrainians are hilarious

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rJLtz64Hg&feature=channel_video_title[/media][/QUOTE]

Insert three guys and one hammer here.:

[SHoGuNN3R v2]

[QUOTE=toaster468;30439559]How is this funny?[/QUOTE]

You must be German.

[aVoN]

[QUOTE=Thaard;30387453]Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput![/QUOTE]

Das ist in keinster Weise irgendwie Deutsch! But funny! :)

[editline]15th June 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;30387949]This is funny
[url]http://paulandkrista.net/lederhosen.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]

Yes it is. Even for 99% of all Germans, this is funny, because just some idiots in Bayern do wear those hilarious lederhosen.

[editline]15th June 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=thispieiscold;30388136]why are Americans rated the most highest

their humour is entirely "in your face" and rarely that funny[/QUOTE]

Maybe, that survey orginiates from the US? Who knows. If it came from Germany, it would be "Germans to be most funniest" :)

[editline]15th June 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Miskav;30389657]To be fair, German humor is more orientated on interactive/Physical humor, instead of verbal humor.[/QUOTE]

Not really. Did you ever got to some good German stand-up comedy? It's full of verbal humor. As quote of the OP says, it generally does not translated well into other languages. That's a common problem. E.g. if I watch some good US or UK commedy series translated into German, it's very very bad or you don't get the joke. So I prefer the original voiced. Same counts for our humour (which we don't have according to South Park :P - All hail funny bot)

[Zero-Point]

Everyone knows America's the funniest.
...In the 70s.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxIHropxQo[/media]
:downs:

But in all seriousness, it's all about the delivery. Some people are funny, others aren't.

[Handsome Pete]

I'm American and I can safely say that the Brits are about a fucking million times funnier than us

[Loures]

Of course italians are funny, [b]our whole government is a joke[/b]

[Provost]

I though Norway was the least funniest. :raise:

[keroba]

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[Beafman]

I don't know, this one seems pretty funny, especially his try at danish :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQfiXLinvU[/media]

[I'm Jon]

[img]http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/uploads/15439/fa76c96eb88e0ce.jpg[/img]

Yep... A real comedian he was.

[aVoN]

[QUOTE=ejonkou;30504017]http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/uploads/15439/fa76c96eb88e0ce.jpg

Yep... A real comedian he was.[/QUOTE]

Oh wow, how funny. Hahaha. /late by 60 years

[Maurice]

[QUOTE=ejonkou;30504017]http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/uploads/15439/fa76c96eb88e0ce.jpg

Yep... A real comedian he was.[/QUOTE]

Austrian.

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;30429604]This thread = butthurt british people.

In case you didn't know, you really can't just say "American humor" "British humor" "German humor" because there are tons of different kinds of comedies and its not like one nation is entirely "slap-stick" or "boring dry ironic humor"

Anyway, everyone knows Japan is number one in comedy. You can't help but laugh at the insane shit they do.[/QUOTE]

To be honest there's still various different humour trends in every country. If you take a generic look at various trends you will always see certain distinctive traits in both the target of the humour as well as the style.

For instance it's sometimes hard to find self-targeting US*humour. Most of it is targeted at other groups while a number of nations tend to make a lot more fun of themselves.

Though to the numbers given - when you think of it, then most of those that took the survey would have been americans. Hence the two most common languages being english and spanish which tends to set a trend on who is seen as the most funny.
Jokes are usually hard to directly translate or even completely get with only minute understandings of the language.
And germans are often seen as dry by outsiders, but they actually do have a fairly complex sense of humour.

For instance I*find that americans have a number of great comedians, just that the average street humour is greatly supbar to what I*enjoy.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=ejonkou;30504017][img]http://svenskanamn.alltforforaldrar.se/uploads/15439/fa76c96eb88e0ce.jpg[/img]

Yep... A real comedian he was.[/QUOTE]

:godwin:

[Simski]

Why are the Spanish the most amusing Europeans?
I'm not saying I'm mad that Sweden aren't the most funny, our jokes are all about sex, relationships, and celebrities; but I genuinely just can't think of any funny Spanish people at all.

[editline]17th June 2011[/editline]

Hell, both Norway and Denmark has better humor than us IMO.
Swedish people tend to be very easily offended, unless drunk.

[josco]

I would think that British are the funniest, at very least in Europe. I crack up every time I watch Top Gear.