Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Contrary to the old cultural stereotype that Germans have no sense of humour, comedy is becoming increasingly common in their fiction.

Ze famous German humour is a serious business. And no one understood this better than Count Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl von Bülow, known to generations of Germans simply as Loriot. For half a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - If anyone wants to know the German for "weasels covered in gravy", then comic Eddie Izzard, who unlike some of his countrymen is a lover of all things European, is the go-to man.

BERLIN – German humorist Vicco von Buelow, often cited by Germans as proof of their sense of humour and known to the nation simply by his nom de plume, “Loriot,” has died. He was 87. Von Buelow died ...

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Thankfully, it’s barely five minutes before the first Hitler zinger hits, and we all let out a sigh of relief along with a hearty, welcoming laugh. We want people to change, but we don’t want them to ...

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 ...

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 ...