Germans are funnier than the average American. American humour seems to amount to claiming you own random countries and then threatening military action.
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German jokes are the wurst
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Karl Valentin
German humor is no laughing matter.
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!"
How would a German joke work based on english homonyms?
It's just a coincidence that the same words are homonyms in English and German in this case: "Warehouses" = "Warenhäuser", "There were houses" = "Dort waren Häuser". You don't even have to translate to colloquial German as the other comment suggests, a word-by-word translation works here.
This. I asked myself this and that and was amazed the joke worked in both languages.
I mean to be fair, English and German are in the same language family.
English and German derive from a common root language, so I'd honestly be surprised if there weren't some that do.
So I went and googled it out of curiosity, after remembering that German for was/were (in some form anyway) is 'war'.
I found this in a thread about Downfall and a translated joke where someone was wondering what the original was:
The German pun uses 'Warenhaus' department store and "Da war 'n Haus" - "there was/used to be a house".
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these are wunderbar
I think Germans are pretty Damm funny tbh. They’re silly
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