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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to the old cultural stereotype that Germans have no sense of humour, comedy is becoming increasingly common in their fiction. In Timur Vermes’ hilarious first novel, Look Who’s Back, which ...

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 ...

GERMAN humorist, artist, sketch writer and television performer Loriot was seen as one-man proof that his country did not lack a sense of humour. To some of his compatriots, Loriot, prolific in so ...

"It was actually a postcard that had been distributed to German army officers, to those from Germany who fight in Afghanistan. And the postcard said on the back 'I fight for Merkel'. And 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 conversation: Rob Rayner - The Beez live in Germany until recently in Berlin, but also tour their second home Australia every year. In 1997, the Kreuzberg-born Deta C. Rayner (vocals and accordion) ...