Certainly dry, but is it funny? A sign in German reads 'Unauthorized plants will be removed at the owner's expense. The owner.' Photo: Timo C. Dinger on Unsplash Germans are efficient and hardworking ...

Groups of people, sometimes hundreds at a time, are showing up in city parks with a container of pudding in one hand and a ...

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?

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 ...

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival takes place from 27 March to 21 April. At the festival, Comedian Maren May can be seen with her show "Maren May is German". SBS reporter Daniel Georgakos ...

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 ...

Forty miles south of Munich, pushed up against the Alps, lies Hausham, a sleepy provincial town of 8,000 residents. It's an unlikely spot to find the next big thing, but Hausham is home and ...