The funniest german joke is Deutsche Bahn…
That joke only works in German because “treffen” has two meanings: meet and hit.
Ah so kind of like “a man walks into a bar and says ouch”
Yea same as “c’est l’histoire d’un gars qui rentre dans un café… et plouf”
German jokes are the wurst
May I present in counter-argument Henning Wehn
Well, we did have to send him to Britain for training … seriously though, probably my favourite German comedian.
So there are actually some German wartime jokes that are actually quite funny. Here’s some that I heard:
- " Where I live there’s now a lot of warehouses, there were houses and there were houses, and there were houses!"
- “How can you tell an optimist from a pessimist? The optimist is learning English and the pessimist is learning Russian.”
- One day at the barracks there was a soldier on his knees looking around the ground, picking up random papers he found and going “no, no that’s not it”. His officer asked what he was doing, “I’m looking for my special paper”. He sent him to the doctor and he was declared insane, when the doctor gave him his discharge papers he explained “ah, there’s my special paper!”
These are gold, thank you for posting
How would a German joke work based on english homonyms?
English and German derive from a common root language, so I’d honestly be surprised if there weren’t some that do.
Germans hate humor so much that hey renamed “The Simpsons” to “Die Simpsons!”. “Die Simpsons!”!!
Die Bart, Die!
Noone who speaks German can be an evil man. Parole granted!
So I went and googled it out of curiosity, after remembering that German for was/were (in some form anyway) is ‘war’.
I found this in a thread about Downfall and a translated joke where someone was wondering what the original was:
The German pun uses ‘Warenhaus’ department store and “Da war 'n Haus” - “there was/used to be a house”.
hm thanks
these are wunderbar
Women are always the recipients of all humor, as were their mothers, and their grandmothers before them, and as will be their daughters, and their granddaughters after them, for it is the will of the Elders
My suggestion is to watch the documentary laughing with Hitler to see that not only do Germans have a scathing sense of humor, but also were willing to die for their jokes.
The forklift training video was amazing.
Gottseidank heißt unser Führer nicht Kräuter. Sonst hieße es den ganzen Tag Heilkräuter! Heilkräuter!
Karl Valentin
German humor is no laughing matter.
Uwe Boll movies left a lasting scar on the image of Germans…
Another German banger I heard awhile ago:
“Ask me if I’m a schoolbus.”
“Are you a schoolbus?”
“No.”
So German humor is anti-meme?
it is post modern
It’s so derived
german humor is no laughing matter
But is also the wurst.
Modern.
How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb?
One, they are an efficient people and lack a strong sense of humor
Zero. Efficient germans use efficient LED.
LED bulbs still exist and are more efficient to use than LED fixtures where you have to change the entire lamp instead of a bulb!
In fact, I’ve got a room with six such fixtures and only one still works.
The LED bulbs barely die. I am still using first gen bulbs i bought over a decade ago. I’ve only had 1 die on me so far. Versus the monthly replacement of some heat bulbs and always having a box of spares around.
Changing lightbulbs is kind of a thing from the past. Old fashioned fillament heat bulbs are hardly in use in Germany nowadays.
Poor lighting is no laughing matter.
What? Do lightbulbs get stuck if you tell a joke?
You must be German
Probably partly. My last name is a German name, but I think we’re more Eastern European muts. I’ve never really gotten a clear answer.
Germans are funnier than the average American. American humour seems to amount to claiming you own random countries and then threatening military action.
Careful throwing stones. That was German humor 80 years ago or so.
Yeah, and we all agreed about what was necessary to stop them- but Americans chose cowardice.
No, they were stopped by outside force. I wish that could happen this time.
Very cute to imply that “outside” is meaningful here, allowing you to pretend you’ve dodged responsibility
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Unfortunately, the people who say that kind of shit are not joking.
Hey now, the Germans take humour very seriously! It’s no laughing matter.
Knock knock
Who’s there?
WE ARE ZE ONES WHO ASK ZE QVESTIONS!
Protection from what? Ze Germans?
