The German mockumentary, modelled on 'The Office,' returns, with a new feature film positioned as counterprogramming to ...

Heinrich von Treitschke, the arch-nationalist German historian, remarks in his History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, "the German jokes with difficulty." The remark was meant as a compliment; ...

Mercedes-Benz accidentally touched the third rail of South Florida politics when the company used an image of Che Guevara, a leader of the Castro revolution in Cuba, in a tongue-in-cheek reference in ...

Flula Borg, the 33-year-old YouTube star, is single-handedly demolishing any lingering misconceptions the world may have about Teutonic stiffness in the humor department. The hyper, hip German ...

There’s an old idea that Germans have no sense of humor, but it’s a myth. Germans have a great sense of humor. It’s just quite barbed. Take, for instance, Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, with its ...

PERHAPS IN RESPONSE to the events of September 11, and the subsequent decade of terror attacks and the media spectacles made out of them, we seem desperate now to ...

Films from Germany are “typically German”: cold, conventional and overly intellectual – or at least a lot of people think so. The Goethe-Institut tries to break this stereotype with its latest film ...

The latest video in Porsche's "Top Five" YouTube series counts down the top five funniest nicknames for Porsche cars. However, some of them may require a German sense of humor to appreciate. Some of ...

In December, Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari took the microphone in a press conference and denied that he had died and been replaced by a clone. “The ignorant rumors are not surprising. When I ...