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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simon Bronner, a Penn State-Harrisburg professor of American studies and folklore, writes about the German and Pennsylvania German preoccupation with manure and how it colors their culture and humor.

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 ...