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the joke the lady at 09:15 butchered was supposed to be "austrias greatest achievement was to convince the world that hitler was german and beethoven austrian"
for German speakers : was ist der Unterschied zwischen Schule in der Schweiz und in Österreich? in der Schweiz ist die Schule gratis in Österreich umsonst
I feel like a big part of it is that on one hand we get drilled in that WWII isn't funny and that every foreigner tells unfunny nazi jokes once they notice we are german.
A French and a German student meet. After a while, the Frenchman says, you Germans don't have fun. The German then says, the last time we Germans had fun, the Americans had to save you.
Black Humor and very offensive Jokes are actually pretty popular in Germany, but no one would ever make an offensive black Joke in public, events, TV or in front of a stranger. We have some foreign and black people as friends, and they make a lot of jokes about whites and Germans, and we make a lot of Jokes about blacks and their countries and we all laugh about every joke.
That's a good point. Manny people privately enjoy dark or politically incorrect humor when they hang out with their pears. But they often don't feel comfortable in public since you never know who's feeling you gonna hurt.
That’s a good point we love to make the nastiest jokes about ourselves, but you need to read the room. There is no way nazi jokes would be socially acceptable. But if you tell them in a small group of friends they might laugh.
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂..... you don't have to explain that Germans can be funny too. Of course you guys can... Lots of love and respect and greetings from me in Amsterdam the Netherlands 💞🙏👋
You could react to Volker Pispers' history of USA and terrorism to get in touch with German humour. It's translated very well and split up in 5 parts (each 7-10 minutes). You could do a Volker Pispers week. I bet you would generate much clicks on these videos. You call yourself an ignorant American and this is why Pispers' program would be perfect for your channel. Believe me, you will laugh. He roasted the hell out of American and German politicians.
Yup, bit it's so sad that rightwingers nowadays promote him everywhere, take his statements out of the whole context and just use it for projection to do their deplorable propaganda...!
German Humor has a really wide range. I second checking out Volker Pispers and getting to know political kabarett (it is comparable to political stand up, like Carlin), cos to really understand german humor, the video here is completely useless. I would also suggest names like Heinz Erhardt or Loriot as they shaped german humor after the 50s (to find a good translation might be hard)
@@apocXIX I think Heinz Erhardt could be difficult to translate because he worked with wordplays a lot. Loriot should be easier to understand. There are some Loriot clips with English subtitles here on TH-cam, but not much. The channel German Comedy has some of Loriot's sketches translated: th-cam.com/channels/MGPxIxbMjrCDfY_HTTpNhA.html
My favorite WWII joke: >>Hitler and his chauffeur run over a pig on a country road. The driver goes to a farm to report this. Hours later he comes back to the car with a whole lot of food and drink. Hitler: "Why do you have so many things?" Driver: "I just said: Heil Hitler, the pig is dead."
@@Captn_Altblech At least it works both ways. 😉 I‘ve read it in the book: „Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot!: Lachen unter Hitler - Komik und Humor im Dritten Reich"
@@millreichzel1473 The farmer thought that "the pig is dead" referred to Hitler and in turn shows his distaste of Hitler. There's a similar joke about Putin. A man stands in the red square in Moscow and screams:"The president is an asshole!" He is shortly thereafter arrested and questioned by the KGB:"So why did you think it was a good idea to insult Putin in public?" "I never said I was referring to Putin!" "Come on, we all know who you were talking about!"
There is a region in Germany where Germans often make jokes of the people who live there. It is called "Ostfriesland". From there you need 5 people to change a light bulb: one to hold the light bulb and four to rotate the table where the first one is standing on.😂😂
And they are not allowed to climb onto telephone poles (?) Because they want to feed the helicopters And we have a lot of jokes about different dialects ans Region, Like "what's the difference between a swedish person speaking German and a Saxon speaking German? You understand what the swedish person is saying We even have an equivalent to Alabama (Saarland) A city that allegedly doesn't exist" , Bielefeld Bayern not actually being part of Germany Brandenburg being so underdeveloped and unpopulated that there is nothing to do and basically qualifys as a nature preserve. A lot of jokes about the trains Fritzchen jokes (about kids saying/doing stupid things, like Fritzchen: today we learned how to make gunpowder in school The mother: that sounds interesting, what are you going to learn in School tomorrow? Fritzchen: what school? Also "alle Kinder Witze" (basically the punchline is always that one of the kids dies or is hit by great misfortune (but like 70+% are death related) "All kids stop at the edge of the cliff, only peter walks another meter" Or "all kids enjoy their steak besides Ian, he lays the pan" Last but not least a bit old fashion "Ossi and Wessi witze (Ossi/Wessi are not too nice words for people from east/west Germany) Like an Ossi tells his friend: I got a radio for my trabi. The friend: that was a good exchange
The most jokes about "Ostfriesen" are from the "Emslaender" ( typical border behaviour). 1 So why do Ostfriesen do have a candle, a lighter and a stone beside their bed? 2 Why do a lot of Ostfriesen do have scarfs around their mouth. 3. Why do Ostfriesen step in and out the window in december? ...
Old jokes. In the US the joke goes: The American says: we have a stupid and lazy neighbor right in the south. The Canadian says: same here. The one with the light bulb 50 years ago in the east frisian version: How many east frisians do you need to change? 4, one holding the lightbulb and 3 turning the guy around.
The second thinnest book after the great collection of German jokes is "Austrian Tales of Heroism. The third thinnest book is "The Great Finesses of English cuisine".
Short story: I (a gay German man) was visiting Montréal, Canada in 2006, joining the 1st Outgames with my friends. There was this evening when I and a couple of friends of mine went to a restaurant for dinner. So. we had a smoke break, going outside to the terrace, smoking and having conversation. There was this group of Canadian men and women around the bar table next to us. Once they realized we are Germans, one of the guys decided to make a joke and giving us the Hitler salute, yelling "Heil Hitler". Well, I guess this man was thinking he made a funny joke, receiving a smile and laughter from us. .... I don't judge him, who am I to judge him?! But to be honest: He didn't get us. Yes we do have a sense of humour, us Germans. Even in a sarcastic or ironic way. But this kind of jokes is NOT funny in our opinions. Bad English as always, but I think you know what I mean. Vive la France et vive l'amitié Franco-Allemande! And may God bless Canada!
@Sokrates Because of an explanation of the background story - Outgames! Or do you heterosexual men know anything about the Outgames? Man, relax! I agree with you - there's no need to tell anybody about your sexual orientation, neither gay or straight, you're right! I just wanted to give some information what was the reason I visited Canada. But okay, I don't have to do it, you're right, I agree.
@Sokrates Because Canada was the host of the Outgames in 2006. Because I am am member of a gay and lesbian sports club. Because I joined the games. Because this was the chance to visit Canada. And hell yeah, I had a good time there. Those were the reasons, so what!? What's wrong with you?
Yea I think that because like most foreing jokes are about german steriotypes and those are either efficient, no humor and so on, or nazi germany and that just is a subject that most germans don't find particuarly funny. Because, yea we take the topic too seriously to laugh about it a lot I would think.
I personally can take jokes about Germans or Germany, the only thing i don't like is when people think whole Germany is like Bavaria and make bavarian jokes with me. Two guys standing at a red pedestrian light in the middle of the night, waiting and waiting. No car in sight for miles but they kept waiting. One asks the other: "Hey you're German too?" "Excuse me, what do you think is the most german joke?" "Do you have an official permission for such questionnaires?" Or another one for our french friends: Who won the 1st tour de france? The 7th panzer division. But don't make nazi jokes, my Grandfather died in a concentration camp... he fell from the watchtower Seriously, i'm Ok with nazi jokes if they are not too disrespectful. I think the best way to contempt dictatiors in general is to make them a laughing number.
ooh damn, the 7th panzer division....🤦🏼♂️😂😂😂 I actually thought, the "why are there so many french roads with trees?"-joke was going along the lines of "So the French can hide from any german panzer, while retreating"
Thankfully (in my personal experience) third reich jokes are not the type to pass around and be re-told alot therefore most people that tell any have come up with them on their own and therefore can appreciate the fine art of ridiculing nazis without ridiculing the tragedy or the victims. That 'tour de france' joke is hilarious!
Beside of dad jokes there is only one i know. I'll try to translate it to english: There is a rabbit inside a forest and three government agencies competing with each other to find it. A BND agent, a CIA agent and an FSB agent. First comes the BND agent who says: "I got this, i'll be back in no time" and he runs into the forest. After 30 minutes he comes out without the rabbit and a fox in his hand. "I couldn't find the rabbit, but I bet this fox has information where to find it". The other two agents laugh. "Let me handle this", the CIA agent says while cramping up is sleeves, and he runs into the forest. After 6 hours, he comes out without the rabbit. "I used our satellite Intelligence, listen to everybody's phone calls and even used extortion on the local forest government to find the rabbit. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it, but I bet it is inside an earth hole or a cave." The other two agents shake their heads and FSB agent facepalm and goes slowly into the forest. After only 5 minutes, he returns and drags a bear behind him. The bear has a beat up face and bruises covers his body. "What it this?" , the BND and the CIA agent said in unity while looking at the bear. "I am the rabbit!" the bear says, "and I'll confess everything"
We have a saying that goes something like "the laugh gets stuck in your throat". So while I can see why some dark jokes are high quality and really sharp and on point, there are some things, some topics that I just can't see in a funny-ish way. That's why I might appreciate the dark joke for its intelligence but I can't laugh at it. My humor is very very innocent. So the really simple dad -jokes make me laugh super hard. I laugh a lot and I also love to laugh at myself, so I would consider myself a fun person, but just certain horrible topics are off limit for me.
I would wonder how it would be the other way around - especially if foreigners in the US would make jokes about the "overwhelming" American military power.
Actually several of the jokes were at the expense of France. Neither you nor the Germans in the video seemed to get the "march in the shade." The French themselves made it more comfortable/easy for the Germans to invade their cities.
Well, he consistently made a little mistake in pronounciation when saying "marschieren" (="march") It's a hard word and it's really hard to be funny in your second (or third) language. I think that threw some of the Germans off (you can see in the video some asking weither they understood it correctly, and sometimes her repeating it, one time even in English). But I agree with you, a lot of the jokes are at the expense of France - a lot of jokes in Germany in general are at the expense of France or the French (considering our history I personally am not a fan of anti-France humour)
@@emmasly123 nope, that really was on the expense of France, but you need some background knowledge to get it. In over 1,000 years of on-off war between Germany and France, France has not won once. Even in the few cases, where french troops managed to get a foot inside a german town, it either didn't last long or was a trap to begin with. Here at the french border, it's very common to make such jokes. This one indicates, that whatever the french do for whatever reason, it always benefits their own defeat.
the real difference between Germany and Austria: in Germany the situation is serious but not hopeless - in Austria the situation is hopeless but not serious.
This type of humor at other countries expense is very common in Europe and it mostly takes place between those who have love-hate type of relationships. But there’s many jokes based on country stereotypes and history. I just realized that Americans don’t have that. Maybe between the states? But I don’t think that that would be as brutal.
> But there’s many jokes based on country stereotypes and history. I just realized that Americans don’t have that. Saying that Americans don’t have history is quite rude :-)
One thing about nazi jokes is (doesn't matter if they are funny or not) that I always think about the pictures from that time and the tragic events that happened. For me it is about respect towards the people murdered by the nazis not to tell jokes about that. Besides that I love to laugh about Germany and I don't feel offended by jokes about us :D
@@vomm I don't like your answer because humor is very subjective and I clearly wrote from my perspective. There is not just one way humor works so please accept my experiences and my perception while you (and everyone else) can have an other.
Wollte gerade einen Witz über die Deutsche Bahn machen, denke aber der wär nicht angekommen. What‘s the difference between a Bavarian and an immigrant? You can understand the immigrants German. What is the definition of the European Heaven? British humour, French food, German technology. And the European Hell? British food, German humour, French technology.
hi there Ryan I recently watched your videos about german Universities and funnily enough this week I also snuck into a lesson at a random uni cause one of my friends studies there it was rather interesting and the professor told me that he'd like to see me in his future lessons, he didn't even notice that I wasn't a student :D
People are always welcome in the 'Hörsaal' as long as it isn't a special small course that needs prior registration! No need to sneak in :D You can even become a 'Gasthörer' at a university for a whole semester. You pay a small fee and get an uni account. Access to the bib, scientific papers, all common classes, sports activities etc. Highly recommend if you are into scientific topics but not interested to full time study a subject.
@@kleinshui9082 I actually want to study medicine, but right now I am becoming a nurse first since I wanna see more parts of the medical field then simply just becoming a doctor straight away
11:47 In my opinion that depends. If the jokes are at the expense of the Nazis that's fine but if the jokes are at the expense of their victims it's critical. In the latter case it also depends on who tells the joke. If a victim or a descendant of a victim tells jokes it's a bit less critical but I wouldn't advise anyone else to do it as you might just loose your German friends rather quickly...
@@BlackWater_49 the clapping hands often mean that and comments like "THIS" or "this comment" mean that all the time. It's like a short version of "Look at this comment" or "This comment is exactly what needs to be said" or "this is the best comment", stuff like that... :)
I don't know if dad jokes are a good measurement for humor... There are a lot of comedians, not only from Germany, that are hilarious to me. I can laugh about those making fun about Germany, too.
We don't have many funny jokes, but we do have pretty funny comedians.... You could check out "Dschingis Khan Orchester Paul Kuhn dirigiert von Otto" it's in German, but the most part is non verbal communication in this case anyways. Otto Waalkes ist a pretty popular comedian and I dare say everyone in Germany knows him
@@harm2714 yes, latly good comedians have become rare... but there are a few established good ones... Next to Otto I would like to mention for example Loriot, even if his sketches are even older than Ottos
@@kazemitsuki3325 Loriot is dead, Otto hasn't been very funny to me since I abandoned childhood. I already noticed his repetitiveness as an elementary school kid, though.
I think we aren’t really bad „joke takers“. But we don’t find „war jokes“ or „n@ziwitze“ funny at all. Except for some which humour is really really dark.
It's super fun to watch you since I am an German intern, who just came back to Germany from my program in Indiana in Fort Wayne. I really enjoyed the culture in the mid-east and watched many of your vids! Good job!
That was uncomfortable to watch. I'm apologizing on behalf of all Germans. We love to laugh about ourselves. Guess those people were not in the mood and the delivery of the joke was rather.... bad 😁.
Got a good one: What does Heaven on Earth look like? Italy is responsible for food, England does entertainment and Germany organizes traffic. What does Hell on Earth look like? England does food, Italy is responsible for traffic and Germany organizes entertainment.
well.. if you want decent german humor .. jump on the "volker pispers"-train. there is a 5-part-series with subtitles here on youtube (1 hour or so in total).. And you will get VERY MANY wtf-moments. And then remember that it is from 2002 .. and how much of that is still very very relevant today ... :/
After experiencing jokes about germans as a whole, you should take a look about the joke we make about each other. Germany has still strong regional ties, and so we tend to make jokes about all the people in the country, almost as if nothing has changed since the times of the HRE.
Oooh... This is so sad🙈 I am German. And we have a sence of humor! Yes, we are always on time and we work hard. But we laugh a lot at work (at least where I work). And we work hard to enjoy our free time! We have this saying: der geht zum Lachen in den Keller (he is going to cellar to laugh), which means "he would never laugh if there is somebody else to see it" . And I think they just chose a lot of this kind of people🙈 Germans can be funny and we enjoy it. Maybe sometimes we just have another sence of humor (a lot of double meaning things or "dark humor" and things like this). And maybe you first have to know us a little better... But then you can have a lot of fun with German people..
Waltz is a very typical Austrian dance. What she meant is: Hitler was originally an Austrian and Mozart was German. Most people are unaware of this and assume that it is the other way around. Most famous for composing Waltz music is Austrian Composer Richard Strauss.
The Germans have the Guinness book record for the smallest book in the world: The complete collection of German humour - Die komplette Sammlung deutschen Humors 😜😜
I am German and I can laugh about every joke when I more or less agree with the stereotype or at least fear that there might be truth to it. Vacation/Occupation that's definitely funny, the stupid people leaving Austria after the holidays or the nice neighbors... pff.
You should check out michael mittermaier. He is a german comedian but he also had done some shows in toronto and new york in english language. you can find it here on youtube.
In Germany jokes about efficiency go like this: Two construction workers were working in our street yesterday. The first was digging a hole, then they looked into it and a few seconds later the other was filling it again. They moved a few meters and repeated the procedure. So I asked them what they were looking for. They answered "We have the order to plant trees. But the colleague who puts them into the holes called in sick this morning."
I like to laugh about myself. A fellow at the plane model club made an unintended joke one. We were talking about how the wind coming from the east over the airfield is not really good. The friend was saying: "nothing good comes from the east" I was laughing really hard. And he was a bit emerrased about it. The joke is basically on the expense of East Germany. The former GDR states. Saying that the people from there are not very good. I grew up in East Germany (after the reunion though) and that's why I laughed. Though I don't know if he knew I was from the east.
Since it is almost Halloween: please react to "Why Germans don't like Halloween" by My merry messy life. They also explain the celtic origins of this festival.
ohh i remember one i can tell in public chat... a northern region of germany is called ostfriesland and when they started to pull up telefon masts and cables people from a nearby village caime by to look... shortly after the whole group started laughing and laughing pointing at the telefon cables and laught their ass off... after a while one of the workers who helped working at the telefon cables strolled by and looked at them for a bit than he went to one of the villagers and asked...*why the hell are you all laughing so hard?* so one of the villagers replied.... if you put the cables so high every cow can pass under them :P
12:23 "What is a German's favorite number? Nine." If you don't speak German, you don't get the joke. The German word for "no" is "nein", spoken exactly like the English number "nine". 🖐👴
@@vomm Germans love to say "no" (this and that isn't allowed, "no, don't do that") Germans speak German, of course. In German the word for "no" is "nein". When you hear the German "nein" it sounds exactly like the English number "nine". So on German streets you often hear "nine" ... "nine" Perhaps people, who don't know the German language, wonder why Germans always say "nine" and not "eight" or "five". These people might think, nine is the favourite number for Germans. 🖐👴
On Nazi jokes: The thing is most "Nazi jokes" are not at the expense of Nazis, but at the expense of their victims. E.g. the last jokes punchline was essentially "The french are so subservient to Germans and so afraid of or incapable in battle, that they make it intentionally easier and more comfortable for the Germans to invade." That is not making fun of Germany or Germans, it is rephrasing Nazi propaganda into a joke. A lot of German anti-Nazi jokes (often told by the VERY few Germans who resisted the Nazis) are lost to history or at least not often told today, while anti French and anti Polish humour is quite popular. To end on a positive note, here two jokes told in the resistance in Nazi Germany, that are actually on the expense of Germans, or at least Nazis: Rumor has it, there are only two types of people left in Germany: non-Aryans and barb-Aryans. What does the perfect aryan look like? As slender as Göring, as blonde as Hitler, and as tall as Göbbels. [none of them, were any of those] Two psychiatrists great each other: "Heil Hitler!" - "How about you do that?!" ["Heil" can mean "Hail" but also "Heal" in the imperiative]
There is actually a quite funny act comparing german and polish handymen that shows how eager and hard working the polish ones are are and how lazy the german one are. Things like that the polish already did work at a different place when they arrive at 7am to do the entire apartment and are confused that they don't get work for the entire day, while the germans take hours doing nothing just to unclog a sink.
In fact, Napoleon had many roads built with trees (Chaussee), also in Germany, so that his soldiers could march in the shade during the summer months. We weren't the first to visit friends. 😉
I am Dutch living in Antwerp/Antwerpen.. There is a joke painting a picture about feelings about the neighbors 😜 There is a poodle of blood on the highway between The Netherlands and Belgium. How can you tell if it was a dog or a Dutchman that was hit by a lorry? If it was a dog there would be brake marks..
A german, a dutch, a nun and a very pretty young girl are riding in a train cabin through the Swiss Alps. The light is broken, so everytime they drive through a tunnel, it's pitch black. Second tunnel, a loud "SLAP" can be heard. Once the train leaves the tunnel, the Dutch is holding his face. The nun thinks: Ew, the Dutch tried to grope the young girl and got slapped. The young girl thinks: Ew, the Dutch wanted to grope me, got the nun instead and got slapped. The dutch thinks: That sneaky fucking german groped the young girl, then ducked so i get hit! And what does the german think? AWESOME, next tunnel I'm gonna slap the dutch even harder!!
Hey Ryan, Austira is calling for you :) We have a lot of history and a lot of beautiful places. Maybe you'd also like to learn about Austria as well. You'd be very welcomed here.
If we're talking about bad world war jokes: What's the difference between Austria and Germany? One had guys who started two world wars the other one had guys who won the world cup four times. ;-)
Between Austrian humour and dialect differences, I think most Germans don't get most of the jokes we make about them. 6:26 Good one, by the way! 🤣 But actually, it's the other way around, because we Austrians can be pretty "hinterfotzig".
Actually it is a standard ballroom dance (as opposed to Latin: samba, rumba Chacha etc) Standard dances include foxtrot and quickstep. This varies from country to country but there are also international championships. I am happy to stand corrected if I've got something wrong there.
German here and i'm trying to translate a joke ive known from my childhood: The presidents of the USA, France, Italy, Russia and Germany are in a plane together. The Pilots say that the jet engines are failing and they have to get out with parachutes. The Problem is there are only 6 parachutes. The Pilots are taking 2 of them and jump out of the Plane. The US President: "I'm the most important man of the united states. I have to get one." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane. The France President: "I'm the most important man of France. I also have to get one." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane. The German President: "I'm the most important man of Germany. I have to get one too." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane. The Presidents of Italy and Russia are looking at each other. President of Italy: "What are we doing now? There's only one left. President of Russia: "Oh, don't you worry, the most important man of Germany just had a bagpack on."
There is a quite fitting word for it that doesn’t exist like that in English: *Fremdschämen* If someone tells you a stupid joke like that and you feel embarrassed *for* them that’s what we call _fremdschämen_ .
the joke at the end with the small book, someone told me a better variant: What's the longest book ever written?...... Hitlers gas bill I'm german and I like such jokes PS love your videos and have you ever thought of doing a live stream?
@@p.f.5718 This is called black humor and is the best of all humor. People who have lost someone in the chambers laugh at jokes about other people's fates. That's how it is.
German humour, is as it is in any other country, different, it's super dry and dark most of the time like "What's blue and swims on top of the poll? A Dead baby" "What is green and blue and swims on top of the pool? The same baby 3 weeks later". Another super dry one is "What is green triangle shaped and lies on the grass? A Green Triangle""What is black, triangle shaped and lies on the grass? The shadow of the Green Triangle". And we are into Cabaret, which is satirical/political comedy, as some mentioned, Volker Pispers is basically the go to for that, his shows are amazing, they won't just destroy most Americans world views but will also make you laugh.
As many here recommened the Volker Pirspers Video "German Cabaret Artist about the History of USA and Terrorism", I started watching it and I absoulutely agreea and would recommend it 100%
In Germany we call this "Kalte" oder "Flachwitze" (cold or flat jokes - joke questions at least). You always ONLY laugh about them if your dumb, simple minded or drunk. A good joke has a twist. There was no twist, it was just dumbass gossip
And that proofs it again folks: Whats the difference between a funny German and a unicorn? Nothing, they're both fictional characters. Best regard from Germany ;-)
I think we should talk more about history in general, we need to lern from our history so the same mistakes don’t happen. If we stay blind to it it will repeat eventually. Even if it’s in an other way then it was in the past. We can lern a lot from history.
I really love your channels 🥰 i would really like if you do a reaction channel on Switzeland, we have so many different cultures here, i think this are very funny. Or make a swiss special here 🙂👍. Greetings from zurich 🇨🇭🇨🇭
Ich lache so gerne und liebe Witze, aber gerne welche mit mehr Wumms! Die dürften gerne derber sein! Naziwitze gehen zB auch fast immer, oder generell lache ich auch über mich selbst, bin ein kleiner Paddel, aber die meisten Witze hier waren echt lahm, also super lahm ^^°
Probably the one about occupation isn‘t a good starter if you‘re a German visiting France and want to break the ice. 😉 It always depends on who is telling the joke. It could be a joke by Germans, too. Like „occupation?“ „No, not this time“. And you can tell that those French jokes about Germany are somehow of another era where nobody of us was already born. And they sound a little bit as if they are German jokes about the French. Who would make a joke about themselves planting trees at the side of the road so that the potential occupier has nice shadows to march in, just to make Germans look like as they are always on the brink of starting a war? 🤔 Funny how the guy sitting there with beer is talking about stereotypes about Germans being true while sitting there drinking his beer in broad daylight. But I like this kind of German more than the Überpünktlichen.
Very hard WW2-joke: so please dont kill my account. "Well, my Grandfather also fell in WW2."."How does this happen?"."He fell drunk from a watchtower."
I think you could translate "dad jokes" with "Flachwitze", which literally means flat jokes. Like it flat soda^^. Means jokes without any depth (or wit).
the joke the lady at 09:15 butchered was supposed to be "austrias greatest achievement was to convince the world that hitler was german and beethoven austrian"
Ja, die Völkerbeschreibungen bei der EM vor Jahren, ich kann mich erinnern. 😄
thank you, I wanted to write this too.
And by the way, NO Austrian does not know that Hitler came frome Austria.
We are very well aware.
@@pha1798 The rest of the world though...
@@ChRW123 yes, most of them.
for German speakers : was ist der Unterschied zwischen Schule in der Schweiz und in Österreich? in der Schweiz ist die Schule gratis in Österreich umsonst
Richtig ist: Österreicher lernen mehr, da sie im Gegensatz zu den Deutschen in die Schule und nicht nur zur Schule gehen.
Der ist gut
A nit schlecht 🤣 Lg aus Tirol
In Deutschland gehen die Kinder (nur) zur Schule. In Österreich gehen die Kinder (wenigstens) in die Schule. (hinein) 🤨
Atomwitz, keiner lacht aber alle strahlen.
I think we Germans can laugh at ourselves, but most World War jokes are just worn out. In general, the jokes were just pretty bad.
I feel like a big part of it is that on one hand we get drilled in that WWII isn't funny and that every foreigner tells unfunny nazi jokes once they notice we are german.
echt kenne unzählige Leute die solche Witze erzählen (alle deutsch), kommt auf die Generation an@@HappyBeezerStudios
A French and a German student meet. After a while, the Frenchman says, you Germans don't have fun. The German then says, the last time we Germans had fun, the Americans had to save you.
Hahahha good one
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I like that one 😂
🤣🤣🤣🙊
Ja,ja.
Wenn Deutschland hustet,
macht sich die Welt in die Hose.
Black Humor and very offensive Jokes are actually pretty popular in Germany, but no one would ever make an offensive black Joke in public, events, TV or in front of a stranger. We have some foreign and black people as friends, and they make a lot of jokes about whites and Germans, and we make a lot of Jokes about blacks and their countries and we all laugh about every joke.
That's a good point. Manny people privately enjoy dark or politically incorrect humor when they hang out with their pears. But they often don't feel comfortable in public since you never know who's feeling you gonna hurt.
Remember Harald Schmidt?
@@harrylexx , die schlechte Kopie von Jay Lenno?
That’s a good point we love to make the nastiest jokes about ourselves, but you need to read the room. There is no way nazi jokes would be socially acceptable. But if you tell them in a small group of friends they might laugh.
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂..... you don't have to explain that Germans can be funny too.
Of course you guys can...
Lots of love and respect and greetings from me in Amsterdam the Netherlands 💞🙏👋
i think its a difference if a german makes the jokes or a foreigner... i think its like a laughing about ourselves vs getting made fun of thing
How many Ostfriesen do you need to change a lightbulb? -5. One gets onto the table to put the bulb in and 4 are turning the table.
You could react to Volker Pispers' history of USA and terrorism to get in touch with German humour. It's translated very well and split up in 5 parts (each 7-10 minutes). You could do a Volker Pispers week. I bet you would generate much clicks on these videos. You call yourself an ignorant American and this is why Pispers' program would be perfect for your channel. Believe me, you will laugh. He roasted the hell out of American and German politicians.
Yup, bit it's so sad that rightwingers nowadays promote him everywhere, take his statements out of the whole context and just use it for projection to do their deplorable propaganda...!
@@marcomobson Jep, but not his fault. So let's stop talking about right wing crap and just bless Volker for beeing savage in an honest way.
German Humor has a really wide range.
I second checking out Volker Pispers and getting to know political kabarett (it is comparable to political stand up, like Carlin), cos to really understand german humor, the video here is completely useless.
I would also suggest names like Heinz Erhardt or Loriot as they shaped german humor after the 50s (to find a good translation might be hard)
Yes please, keep the Volker Pispers reaction train rolling!
@@apocXIX I think Heinz Erhardt could be difficult to translate because he worked with wordplays a lot. Loriot should be easier to understand. There are some Loriot clips with English subtitles here on TH-cam, but not much.
The channel German Comedy has some of Loriot's sketches translated:
th-cam.com/channels/MGPxIxbMjrCDfY_HTTpNhA.html
My favorite WWII joke: >>Hitler and his chauffeur run over a pig on a country road. The driver goes to a farm to report this. Hours later he comes back to the car with a whole lot of food and drink. Hitler: "Why do you have so many things?" Driver: "I just said: Heil Hitler, the pig is dead."
:D
I know it more like "I'm Hitler's chauffeur and ran over the pig!"
@@Captn_Altblech At least it works both ways. 😉 I‘ve read it in the book: „Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot!: Lachen unter Hitler - Komik und Humor im Dritten Reich"
I don't get it
@@millreichzel1473 The farmer thought that "the pig is dead" referred to Hitler and in turn shows his distaste of Hitler.
There's a similar joke about Putin.
A man stands in the red square in Moscow and screams:"The president is an asshole!"
He is shortly thereafter arrested and questioned by the KGB:"So why did you think it was a good idea to insult Putin in public?"
"I never said I was referring to Putin!"
"Come on, we all know who you were talking about!"
Greetings from 🇩🇪!
Here is mine:
Aliens land on earth.
USA: "Fancy war?"
China: "How did you do that?"
Germany: "IDs and landing permits, please!"
🤘😉
USA: Shoot, then question
This is funny 😂
"Joke, joke, come out, you're surrounded" - "Doesn't work, the door is stuck". So much for the jokes of the two Activists.
There is a region in Germany where Germans often make jokes of the people who live there. It is called "Ostfriesland". From there you need 5 people to change a light bulb: one to hold the light bulb and four to rotate the table where the first one is standing on.😂😂
And they are not allowed to climb onto telephone poles (?) Because they want to feed the helicopters
And we have a lot of jokes about different dialects ans Region,
Like "what's the difference between a swedish person speaking German and a Saxon speaking German?
You understand what the swedish person is saying
We even have an equivalent to Alabama (Saarland)
A city that allegedly doesn't exist" , Bielefeld
Bayern not actually being part of Germany
Brandenburg being so underdeveloped and unpopulated that there is nothing to do and basically qualifys as a nature preserve.
A lot of jokes about the trains
Fritzchen jokes (about kids saying/doing stupid things, like
Fritzchen: today we learned how to make gunpowder in school
The mother: that sounds interesting, what are you going to learn in School tomorrow?
Fritzchen: what school?
Also "alle Kinder Witze" (basically the punchline is always that one of the kids dies or is hit by great misfortune (but like 70+% are death related)
"All kids stop at the edge of the cliff, only peter walks another meter"
Or "all kids enjoy their steak besides Ian, he lays the pan"
Last but not least a bit old fashion "Ossi and Wessi witze (Ossi/Wessi are not too nice words for people from east/west Germany)
Like
an Ossi tells his friend: I got a radio for my trabi.
The friend: that was a good exchange
The most jokes about "Ostfriesen" are from the "Emslaender" ( typical border behaviour).
1 So why do Ostfriesen do have a candle, a lighter and a stone beside their bed?
2 Why do a lot of Ostfriesen do have scarfs around their mouth.
3. Why do Ostfriesen step in and out the window in december?
...
I really enjoy your videos. I'm from Germany and I always find it very funny how you react to certain things. Keep it up
Yeah but especialy in the politik you can`t bring nazi jokes.
Old jokes. In the US the joke goes: The American says: we have a stupid and lazy neighbor right in the south. The Canadian says: same here.
The one with the light bulb 50 years ago in the east frisian version: How many east frisians do you need to change? 4, one holding the lightbulb and 3 turning the guy around.
The second thinnest book after the great collection of German jokes is "Austrian Tales of Heroism. The third thinnest book is "The Great Finesses of English cuisine".
😄 Porridge with water an salt. 🥴
@@oOIIIMIIIOo And mint sauce, man. Mint sauce!!! XD
@@V0r4xiz Uh, yes, I only eat mint in sweets. After eight is ok, or throat drops, when you have a cold. 😄
Short story: I (a gay German man) was visiting Montréal, Canada in 2006, joining the 1st Outgames with my friends. There was this evening when I and a couple of friends of mine went to a restaurant for dinner. So. we had a smoke break, going outside to the terrace, smoking and having conversation. There was this group of Canadian men and women around the bar table next to us. Once they realized we are Germans, one of the guys decided to make a joke and giving us the Hitler salute, yelling "Heil Hitler". Well, I guess this man was thinking he made a funny joke, receiving a smile and laughter from us. .... I don't judge him, who am I to judge him?! But to be honest: He didn't get us. Yes we do have a sense of humour, us Germans. Even in a sarcastic or ironic way. But this kind of jokes is NOT funny in our opinions. Bad English as always, but I think you know what I mean. Vive la France et vive l'amitié Franco-Allemande! And may God bless Canada!
@Sokrates Because of an explanation of the background story - Outgames! Or do you heterosexual men know anything about the Outgames? Man, relax! I agree with you - there's no need to tell anybody about your sexual orientation, neither gay or straight, you're right! I just wanted to give some information what was the reason I visited Canada. But okay, I don't have to do it, you're right, I agree.
@Sokrates Because Canada was the host of the Outgames in 2006. Because I am am member of a gay and lesbian sports club. Because I joined the games. Because this was the chance to visit Canada. And hell yeah, I had a good time there. Those were the reasons, so what!? What's wrong with you?
That's simply no joke. The salute is more likely to get you a solid beating.
Yea I think that because like most foreing jokes are about german steriotypes and those are either efficient, no humor and so on, or nazi germany and that just is a subject that most germans don't find particuarly funny. Because, yea we take the topic too seriously to laugh about it a lot I would think.
Mir wäre die Kinnlade runtergefallen.
I personally can take jokes about Germans or Germany, the only thing i don't like is when people think whole Germany is like Bavaria and make bavarian jokes with me.
Two guys standing at a red pedestrian light in the middle of the night, waiting and waiting. No car in sight for miles but they kept waiting. One asks the other: "Hey you're German too?"
"Excuse me, what do you think is the most german joke?" "Do you have an official permission for such questionnaires?"
Or another one for our french friends:
Who won the 1st tour de france? The 7th panzer division.
But don't make nazi jokes, my Grandfather died in a concentration camp... he fell from the watchtower
Seriously, i'm Ok with nazi jokes if they are not too disrespectful. I think the best way to contempt dictatiors in general is to make them a laughing number.
They did it during the war yet.
ooh damn, the 7th panzer division....🤦🏼♂️😂😂😂
I actually thought, the "why are there so many french roads with trees?"-joke was going along the lines of "So the French can hide from any german panzer, while retreating"
Thankfully (in my personal experience) third reich jokes are not the type to pass around and be re-told alot therefore most people that tell any have come up with them on their own and therefore can appreciate the fine art of ridiculing nazis without ridiculing the tragedy or the victims.
That 'tour de france' joke is hilarious!
What will the European Union citizen of the future be like? He'll be as funny as a German, as modest as a Frenchman and as disciplined as an Italian.
Beside of dad jokes there is only one i know. I'll try to translate it to english:
There is a rabbit inside a forest and three government agencies competing with each other to find it. A BND agent, a CIA agent and an FSB agent.
First comes the BND agent who says: "I got this, i'll be back in no time" and he runs into the forest. After 30 minutes he comes out without the rabbit and a fox in his hand. "I couldn't find the rabbit, but I bet this fox has information where to find it". The other two agents laugh.
"Let me handle this", the CIA agent says while cramping up is sleeves, and he runs into the forest. After 6 hours, he comes out without the rabbit. "I used our satellite Intelligence, listen to everybody's phone calls and even used extortion on the local forest government to find the rabbit. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it, but I bet it is inside an earth hole or a cave."
The other two agents shake their heads and FSB agent facepalm and goes slowly into the forest. After only 5 minutes, he returns and drags a bear behind him. The bear has a beat up face and bruises covers his body. "What it this?" , the BND and the CIA agent said in unity while looking at the bear.
"I am the rabbit!" the bear says, "and I'll confess everything"
This is so good 😂
😂😂😂😂
We have a saying that goes something like "the laugh gets stuck in your throat". So while I can see why some dark jokes are high quality and really sharp and on point, there are some things, some topics that I just can't see in a funny-ish way. That's why I might appreciate the dark joke for its intelligence but I can't laugh at it. My humor is very very innocent. So the really simple dad -jokes make me laugh super hard. I laugh a lot and I also love to laugh at myself, so I would consider myself a fun person, but just certain horrible topics are off limit for me.
I would wonder how it would be the other way around - especially if foreigners in the US would make jokes about the "overwhelming" American military power.
lol..americans are insulted regardless of what is being said.
@@Luziemagick and you will be sued^^
Actually several of the jokes were at the expense of France. Neither you nor the Germans in the video seemed to get the "march in the shade." The French themselves made it more comfortable/easy for the Germans to invade their cities.
Well, he consistently made a little mistake in pronounciation when saying "marschieren" (="march") It's a hard word and it's really hard to be funny in your second (or third) language. I think that threw some of the Germans off (you can see in the video some asking weither they understood it correctly, and sometimes her repeating it, one time even in English). But I agree with you, a lot of the jokes are at the expense of France - a lot of jokes in Germany in general are at the expense of France or the French (considering our history I personally am not a fan of anti-France humour)
We got it!not nice towards the french to laugh at these jokes.
I thought it was more referring to Germans being sissies, the marching in the shadow being a variation of parking in the shadow.
@@emmasly123 nope, that really was on the expense of France, but you need some background knowledge to get it. In over 1,000 years of on-off war between Germany and France, France has not won once. Even in the few cases, where french troops managed to get a foot inside a german town, it either didn't last long or was a trap to begin with. Here at the french border, it's very common to make such jokes. This one indicates, that whatever the french do for whatever reason, it always benefits their own defeat.
Not a joke but a statement by the weirdo Austrian himself: German military gear isn't suitable for harsh weather conditions.
The lady's joke goes like this :
It is a form of Austrian art to make the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian.
the real difference between Germany and Austria: in Germany the situation is serious but not hopeless - in Austria the situation is hopeless but not serious.
This type of humor at other countries expense is very common in Europe and it mostly takes place between those who have love-hate type of relationships. But there’s many jokes based on country stereotypes and history. I just realized that Americans don’t have that. Maybe between the states? But I don’t think that that would be as brutal.
And in most countries there is a region which is used to make jokes about. In Germany e.g. Ostfriesland, in Austria e.g. Burgenland.
@@reinhard8053 Yes that is also common by my experience
Yup, we never left the regional federalism behind. 1000 years and we still joke about each other as if we were different nations.
Sweet home Alabama... 😄
> But there’s many jokes based on country stereotypes and history. I just realized that Americans don’t have that.
Saying that Americans don’t have history is quite rude :-)
Which animal has four legs and one hand?
A Rottweiler at the children's playground. 🧐
Wenn man über sich selbst lachen kann ist es das schönste 🥰
One thing about nazi jokes is (doesn't matter if they are funny or not) that I always think about the pictures from that time and the tragic events that happened. For me it is about respect towards the people murdered by the nazis not to tell jokes about that.
Besides that I love to laugh about Germany and I don't feel offended by jokes about us :D
Same for me....
Humor does not work the way you think
@@vomm I don't like your answer because humor is very subjective and I clearly wrote from my perspective. There is not just one way humor works so please accept my experiences and my perception while you (and everyone else) can have an other.
Wollte gerade einen Witz über die Deutsche Bahn machen, denke aber der wär nicht angekommen.
What‘s the difference between a Bavarian and an immigrant?
You can understand the immigrants German.
What is the definition of the European Heaven?
British humour, French food, German technology.
And the European Hell?
British food, German humour, French technology.
hi there Ryan I recently watched your videos about german Universities and funnily enough this week I also snuck into a lesson at a random uni cause one of my friends studies there it was rather interesting and the professor told me that he'd like to see me in his future lessons, he didn't even notice that I wasn't a student :D
People are always welcome in the 'Hörsaal' as long as it isn't a special small course that needs prior registration! No need to sneak in :D
You can even become a 'Gasthörer' at a university for a whole semester. You pay a small fee and get an uni account. Access to the bib, scientific papers, all common classes, sports activities etc.
Highly recommend if you are into scientific topics but not interested to full time study a subject.
@@kleinshui9082 I actually want to study medicine, but right now I am becoming a nurse first since I wanna see more parts of the medical field then simply just becoming a doctor straight away
Humor ist wenn man trotzdem lacht 🤣
Fühle ich
11:47 In my opinion that depends. If the jokes are at the expense of the Nazis that's fine but if the jokes are at the expense of their victims it's critical.
In the latter case it also depends on who tells the joke. If a victim or a descendant of a victim tells jokes it's a bit less critical but I wouldn't advise anyone else to do it as you might just loose your German friends rather quickly...
Yes 👏 this comment!!
@@voyance4elle I'm not sure what to make of this... XD
@@BlackWater_49 I applaud your comment ;) I agree 100%
@@voyance4elle Ah ok, copy that.
@@BlackWater_49 the clapping hands often mean that and comments like "THIS" or "this comment" mean that all the time. It's like a short version of "Look at this comment" or "This comment is exactly what needs to be said" or "this is the best comment", stuff like that... :)
I don't know if dad jokes are a good measurement for humor...
There are a lot of comedians, not only from Germany, that are hilarious to me. I can laugh about those making fun about Germany, too.
We don't have many funny jokes, but we do have pretty funny comedians.... You could check out "Dschingis Khan Orchester Paul Kuhn dirigiert von Otto" it's in German, but the most part is non verbal communication in this case anyways. Otto Waalkes ist a pretty popular comedian and I dare say everyone in Germany knows him
I‘d say the opposite. We have good jokes but current comedians are lame
@@harm2714 yes, latly good comedians have become rare... but there are a few established good ones... Next to Otto I would like to mention for example Loriot, even if his sketches are even older than Ottos
@@kazemitsuki3325 Loriot is dead, Otto hasn't been very funny to me since I abandoned childhood. I already noticed his repetitiveness as an elementary school kid, though.
Oh yes Loriot 😍 I wish he'd watch that with subtitles!!
@@voyance4elle yes .... But sadly most of his work got taken down from TH-cam just a few cartoons and some scenes from the movies remain...
I think we aren’t really bad „joke takers“. But we don’t find „war jokes“ or „n@ziwitze“ funny at all. Except for some which humour is really really dark.
i know all that jokes,really, no joke ;)
It's super fun to watch you since I am an German intern, who just came back to Germany from my program in Indiana in Fort Wayne. I really enjoyed the culture in the mid-east and watched many of your vids! Good job!
PSA for native German speakers: You TELL jokes in English, you don't "make" them.
und wieder was gelernt ^^
I am Ryan... on this channel" Haha, funny too.
bro thats crazy you are ganing so many subscribers
That was uncomfortable to watch.
I'm apologizing on behalf of all Germans. We love to laugh about ourselves. Guess those people were not in the mood and the delivery of the joke was rather.... bad 😁.
It just feels so forced.
"I'm a little slow."
Understatement.
What do German pilots have for breakfast?
Luftwaffles.
Got a good one:
What does Heaven on Earth look like?
Italy is responsible for food, England does entertainment and Germany organizes traffic.
What does Hell on Earth look like?
England does food, Italy is responsible for traffic and Germany organizes entertainment.
I liked the Austrian jokes about Germans.
Greetings from Vienna, Austria 😁
well.. if you want decent german humor .. jump on the "volker pispers"-train. there is a 5-part-series with subtitles here on youtube (1 hour or so in total).. And you will get VERY MANY wtf-moments.
And then remember that it is from 2002 .. and how much of that is still very very relevant today ... :/
After experiencing jokes about germans as a whole, you should take a look about the joke we make about each other. Germany has still strong regional ties, and so we tend to make jokes about all the people in the country, almost as if nothing has changed since the times of the HRE.
I‘m German and each of these jokes made me laugh. I swear. 😂
Interessanter Humor …
Oooh... This is so sad🙈 I am German. And we have a sence of humor! Yes, we are always on time and we work hard. But we laugh a lot at work (at least where I work). And we work hard to enjoy our free time! We have this saying: der geht zum Lachen in den Keller (he is going to cellar to laugh), which means "he would never laugh if there is somebody else to see it" . And I think they just chose a lot of this kind of people🙈 Germans can be funny and we enjoy it. Maybe sometimes we just have another sence of humor (a lot of double meaning things or "dark humor" and things like this). And maybe you first have to know us a little better... But then you can have a lot of fun with German people..
The thing is, german humor is no laughing matter.
Waltz is a very typical Austrian dance. What she meant is: Hitler was originally an Austrian and Mozart was German. Most people are unaware of this and assume that it is the other way around. Most famous for composing Waltz music is Austrian Composer Richard Strauss.
The Germans have the Guinness book record for the smallest book in the world: The complete collection of German humour - Die komplette Sammlung deutschen Humors 😜😜
The three thinnest books in the world:
1. Great English Recipes
2. German Humor
3. French War Strategy.
😜
I am German and I can laugh about every joke when I more or less agree with the stereotype or at least fear that there might be truth to it. Vacation/Occupation that's definitely funny, the stupid people leaving Austria after the holidays or the nice neighbors... pff.
You should check out michael mittermaier. He is a german comedian but he also had done some shows in toronto and new york in english language. you can find it here on youtube.
Loriot bleibt der beste. 😄
buddy in the red shirt comin in with the zingers
In Germany jokes about efficiency go like this:
Two construction workers were working in our street yesterday. The first was digging a hole, then they looked into it and a few seconds later the other was filling it again. They moved a few meters and repeated the procedure.
So I asked them what they were looking for. They answered "We have the order to plant trees. But the colleague who puts them into the holes called in sick this morning."
I like to laugh about myself. A fellow at the plane model club made an unintended joke one. We were talking about how the wind coming from the east over the airfield is not really good. The friend was saying: "nothing good comes from the east"
I was laughing really hard. And he was a bit emerrased about it.
The joke is basically on the expense of East Germany. The former GDR states. Saying that the people from there are not very good.
I grew up in East Germany (after the reunion though) and that's why I laughed. Though I don't know if he knew I was from the east.
Since it is almost Halloween: please react to "Why Germans don't like Halloween" by My merry messy life. They also explain the celtic origins of this festival.
ohh i remember one i can tell in public chat... a northern region of germany is called ostfriesland and when they started to pull up telefon masts and cables people from a nearby village caime by to look... shortly after the whole group started laughing and laughing pointing at the telefon cables and laught their ass off... after a while one of the workers who helped working at the telefon cables strolled by and looked at them for a bit than he went to one of the villagers and asked...*why the hell are you all laughing so hard?* so one of the villagers replied.... if you put the cables so high every cow can pass under them :P
One of the interview Partner is Maurice Gajda German tv Moderator
12:23 "What is a German's favorite number? Nine."
If you don't speak German, you don't get the joke. The German word for "no" is "nein", spoken exactly like the English number "nine".
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But that doesn't make sense, "No" is not a number, so how can it be a favorite number?
@@vomm
Germans love to say "no" (this and that isn't allowed, "no, don't do that")
Germans speak German, of course. In German the word for "no" is "nein".
When you hear the German "nein" it sounds exactly like the English number "nine".
So on German streets you often hear "nine" ... "nine"
Perhaps people, who don't know the German language, wonder why Germans always say "nine" and not "eight" or "five". These people might think, nine is the favourite number for Germans.
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A good joke never starts with the announcement "I'll tell you a joke". that's the problem.
On Nazi jokes: The thing is most "Nazi jokes" are not at the expense of Nazis, but at the expense of their victims. E.g. the last jokes punchline was essentially "The french are so subservient to Germans and so afraid of or incapable in battle, that they make it intentionally easier and more comfortable for the Germans to invade." That is not making fun of Germany or Germans, it is rephrasing Nazi propaganda into a joke.
A lot of German anti-Nazi jokes (often told by the VERY few Germans who resisted the Nazis) are lost to history or at least not often told today, while anti French and anti Polish humour is quite popular.
To end on a positive note, here two jokes told in the resistance in Nazi Germany, that are actually on the expense of Germans, or at least Nazis:
Rumor has it, there are only two types of people left in Germany:
non-Aryans and barb-Aryans.
What does the perfect aryan look like? As slender as Göring, as blonde as Hitler, and as tall as Göbbels.
[none of them, were any of those]
Two psychiatrists great each other:
"Heil Hitler!" - "How about you do that?!"
["Heil" can mean "Hail" but also "Heal" in the imperiative]
There is actually a quite funny act comparing german and polish handymen that shows how eager and hard working the polish ones are are and how lazy the german one are. Things like that the polish already did work at a different place when they arrive at 7am to do the entire apartment and are confused that they don't get work for the entire day, while the germans take hours doing nothing just to unclog a sink.
Any joke stops being funny when you hear the seventh variant for the fiftieth time
In fact, Napoleon had many roads built with trees (Chaussee), also in Germany, so that his soldiers could march in the shade during the summer months. We weren't the first to visit friends. 😉
I am Dutch living in Antwerp/Antwerpen.. There is a joke painting a picture about feelings about the neighbors 😜 There is a poodle of blood on the highway between The Netherlands and Belgium. How can you tell if it was a dog or a Dutchman that was hit by a lorry? If it was a dog there would be brake marks..
You get it 😂
I probably would have turned the Austria Germany joke around with just 1 sentence: Yea, Austria doesn't border Scandinavia (aka Denmark)
A german, a dutch, a nun and a very pretty young girl are riding in a train cabin through the Swiss Alps. The light is broken, so everytime they drive through a tunnel, it's pitch black.
Second tunnel, a loud "SLAP" can be heard. Once the train leaves the tunnel, the Dutch is holding his face.
The nun thinks: Ew, the Dutch tried to grope the young girl and got slapped.
The young girl thinks: Ew, the Dutch wanted to grope me, got the nun instead and got slapped.
The dutch thinks: That sneaky fucking german groped the young girl, then ducked so i get hit!
And what does the german think?
AWESOME, next tunnel I'm gonna slap the dutch even harder!!
Hey Ryan, Austira is calling for you :)
We have a lot of history and a lot of beautiful places. Maybe you'd also like to learn about Austria as well.
You'd be very welcomed here.
If we're talking about bad world war jokes:
What's the difference between Austria and Germany? One had guys who started two world wars the other one had guys who won the world cup four times. ;-)
"i talked so much shit in the bar yesterday four americans wanted to vote for me"
Between Austrian humour and dialect differences, I think most Germans don't get most of the jokes we make about them.
6:26 Good one, by the way! 🤣 But actually, it's the other way around, because we Austrians can be pretty "hinterfotzig".
Walzer is a Classic Dance
I was surprised that he didn't know what a waltz is. I mean to waltz? Waltz together...
Actually it is a standard ballroom dance (as opposed to Latin: samba, rumba Chacha etc) Standard dances include foxtrot and quickstep. This varies from country to country but there are also international championships. I am happy to stand corrected if I've got something wrong there.
The short ones at the and really cracked me up
German here and i'm trying to translate a joke ive known from my childhood:
The presidents of the USA, France, Italy, Russia and Germany are in a plane together. The Pilots say that the jet engines are failing and they have to get out with parachutes.
The Problem is there are only 6 parachutes.
The Pilots are taking 2 of them and jump out of the Plane.
The US President: "I'm the most important man of the united states. I have to get one." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane.
The France President: "I'm the most important man of France. I also have to get one." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane.
The German President: "I'm the most important man of Germany. I have to get one too." - he's taking one of the parachutes and jump out of the plane.
The Presidents of Italy and Russia are looking at each other.
President of Italy: "What are we doing now? There's only one left.
President of Russia: "Oh, don't you worry, the most important man of Germany just had a bagpack on."
That is no joke, planting trees along streets was actually invented by the military. At least in Germany.
-Whats your kind of humour?
-I am german, i have not any sense of humour.
^^
You should do a video about the German Techno scene, especially Tresor and the foundation of Techno in the 1990s in Berlin. Its very interesting!
There is a quite fitting word for it that doesn’t exist like that in English: *Fremdschämen*
If someone tells you a stupid joke like that and you feel embarrassed *for* them that’s what we call _fremdschämen_ .
Yeah, Americans say second hand embarrassment to that.
Aber du hast Recht, ein Wort dafür gibt's nicht auf Englisch
why do you never see germans jogging at midnight?
- because we are never runnung late
probably better than any joke told in the video x)
the joke at the end with the small book, someone told me a better variant:
What's the longest book ever written?...... Hitlers gas bill
I'm german and I like such jokes
PS love your videos and have you ever thought of doing a live stream?
If you had lost somebody in those gas chambers you wouldn’t take it very funny 😢
@@p.f.5718 i know that's why its always important to check your audience before telling dark jokes
i usually like some dark jokes but the one with the gas bill is pretty dark and not really funny
@@vega23565 i respect that
@@p.f.5718 This is called black humor and is the best of all humor. People who have lost someone in the chambers laugh at jokes about other people's fates. That's how it is.
German humour, is as it is in any other country, different, it's super dry and dark most of the time like "What's blue and swims on top of the poll? A Dead baby" "What is green and blue and swims on top of the pool? The same baby 3 weeks later".
Another super dry one is "What is green triangle shaped and lies on the grass? A Green Triangle""What is black, triangle shaped and lies on the grass? The shadow of the Green Triangle".
And we are into Cabaret, which is satirical/political comedy, as some mentioned, Volker Pispers is basically the go to for that, his shows are amazing, they won't just destroy most Americans world views but will also make you laugh.
Please dont think every german behaves like the ones shown in the videos of this channel! those are Berliner and really weird to the rest of us!
As many here recommened the Volker Pirspers Video "German Cabaret Artist about the History of USA and Terrorism", I started watching it and I absoulutely agreea and would recommend it 100%
My humor is so dark and messed up, when he asked about the German's favorite number, I was thinking of a different number...😅
In Germany we call this "Kalte" oder "Flachwitze" (cold or flat jokes - joke questions at least). You always ONLY laugh about them if your dumb, simple minded or drunk. A good joke has a twist. There was no twist, it was just dumbass gossip
Diebisches Berg-Volk mit 12 Buchstaben?
Österreicher.
And that proofs it again folks:
Whats the difference between a funny German and a unicorn? Nothing, they're both fictional characters.
Best regard from Germany ;-)
I think we should talk more about history in general, we need to lern from our history so the same mistakes don’t happen. If we stay blind to it it will repeat eventually. Even if it’s in an other way then it was in the past. We can lern a lot from history.
I found all the jokes funny! There was no ROFL moment, but... funny
I really love your channels 🥰 i would really like if you do a reaction channel on Switzeland, we have so many different cultures here, i think this are very funny. Or make a swiss special here 🙂👍.
Greetings from zurich 🇨🇭🇨🇭
Waltz is a dance style
Ich lache so gerne und liebe Witze, aber gerne welche mit mehr Wumms! Die dürften gerne derber sein! Naziwitze gehen zB auch fast immer, oder generell lache ich auch über mich selbst, bin ein kleiner Paddel, aber die meisten Witze hier waren echt lahm, also super lahm ^^°
Probably the one about occupation isn‘t a good starter if you‘re a German visiting France and want to break the ice. 😉 It always depends on who is telling the joke. It could be a joke by Germans, too. Like „occupation?“ „No, not this time“. And you can tell that those French jokes about Germany are somehow of another era where nobody of us was already born. And they sound a little bit as if they are German jokes about the French. Who would make a joke about themselves planting trees at the side of the road so that the potential occupier has nice shadows to march in, just to make Germans look like as they are always on the brink of starting a war? 🤔
Funny how the guy sitting there with beer is talking about stereotypes about Germans being true while sitting there drinking his beer in broad daylight. But I like this kind of German more than the Überpünktlichen.
Very hard WW2-joke: so please dont kill my account.
"Well, my Grandfather also fell in WW2."."How does this happen?"."He fell drunk from a watchtower."
A German goes to Rotterdam and asks for the old part of town. Most polular joke about germans in netherlands
I think you could translate "dad jokes" with "Flachwitze", which literally means flat jokes. Like it flat soda^^. Means jokes without any depth (or wit).
1st joke: Ask the French people! And find out what they they think about it. Me - German - sense of humour: Yes. But this one - Nah, not this one.