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 ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Is there a good German joke? Do English jokes translate into German?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wat zo funni about ze Germans, you ask? I’ll tell you (but only if you read this entire article with a German accent in your head)... I am German, I was born in Hamburg, grew up in New York and my ...

Vorsprung durch Slapstick. Germans will always laugh at the old cake trick. He's very creative and makes me laugh. I think it's hard to find anyone that can make you laugh nowadays. I learned quite a ...

p 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 ...

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 ...

Claudia Sandberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

“There is good German humour and there is German humour that is awful. But the image of the totally inhibited German with no humour at all is quite wrong.” You have to talk about humour with Robert ...

This is not the easiest of jobs because Germans allegedly do not have a sense of humour. Henning does not find that funny. He took office in October 2003 after watching an open mic night that left him ...