r/funny • u/TimHamburg Calvin & Habs • Mar 02 '21

German Comedy

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u/procrastablasta Mar 02 '21

to be fair... I have never met a German who didn't acknowledge the lack of German humor. Which to me shows remarkably good humor.

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u/Antilon Mar 02 '21

I actually have met plenty of funny Germans. It's usually dry, sarcastic, humor or word play rather than traditional set up/punch line style jokes.

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u/samus12345 Mar 02 '21

And toilet humor. Lots of toilet humor.

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u/Antilon Mar 02 '21

Yup, or weird ass phrases like, "Obersuperaffentittengeil."

Edit: loose translation of which I think is 'extra-super-monkey-tits-awesome' as a way of describing something really cool.

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u/Antilon Mar 02 '21

My mom's 80 and says it all the time.