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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The funniest german joke is Deutsche Bahn...

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago
[-] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 day ago

That joke only works in German because "treffen" has two meanings: meet and hit.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago

Ah so kind of like "a man walks into a bar and says ouch"

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Or like, "a man walks into a bar. It was a closed casket funeral."

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[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

May I present in counter-argument Henning Wehn

[-] remon@ani.social 2 points 13 hours ago

Well, we did have to send him to Britain for training ... seriously though, probably my favourite German comedian.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm a always especially impressed by comedians that can work successfully in a second language.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

German jokes are the wurst

[-] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 65 points 2 days ago

So there are actually some German wartime jokes that are actually quite funny. Here's some that I heard:

  • " Where I live there's now a lot of warehouses, there were houses and there were houses, and there were houses!"
  • "How can you tell an optimist from a pessimist? The optimist is learning English and the pessimist is learning Russian."
  • One day at the barracks there was a soldier on his knees looking around the ground, picking up random papers he found and going "no, no that's not it". His officer asked what he was doing, "I'm looking for my special paper". He sent him to the doctor and he was declared insane, when the doctor gave him his discharge papers he explained "ah, there's my special paper!"
[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

These are gold, thank you for posting

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[-] Waffelmeister@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Gottseidank heißt unser Führer nicht Kräuter. Sonst hieße es den ganzen Tag Heilkräuter! Heilkräuter!

Karl Valentin

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago

My suggestion is to watch the documentary laughing with Hitler to see that not only do Germans have a scathing sense of humor, but also were willing to die for their jokes.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The forklift training video was amazing.

[-] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

German humor is no laughing matter.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Uwe Boll movies left a lasting scar on the image of Germans...

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Women are always the recipients of all humor, as were their mothers, and their grandmothers before them, and as will be their daughters, and their granddaughters after them, for it is the will of the Elders

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