German may be the most widely spoken language in the European Union, but let's be honest - it's just downright funny ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Germany has often been lauded for its memory culture and its reckoning with its fascist, genocidal past. “Never again” is both a solemn vow and an integral part of the remembrance culture of the ...

Although deprived of its best talents in the field of German humor because of the exodus of the most gifted Germans, Nazi Germany determined to show the world how well it gets along with Nazi talents ...

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 ...