I would like to begin by acknowledging that we are in Vienna, Austria, the ancestral and unceded territory of the ...

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 ...

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?

Comedian Eddie Izzard gestures as he speaks after being presented with the 6th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

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 ...

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 ...

To many non-speakers, German sounds angry, harsh, or even intimidating - but is it really? This documentary explores why the language has such a reputation, breaking down the sounds, rhythms, and ...