Reply to: Urgently need German humour magazine recommendation

[Sysman]

Maybe somebody with a knowledge of the Continent can help me out here? I haven't even sorted out my apartment and health insurance yet, and I'm really blocked on this one issue.

Asterix the Gaul. Kids books aren't too bad if your German is basic.

You can also get books which have German on one page and English on the facing page. They are meant to be for learning English, but there's nothing to stop you using them the other way around. They do tend to be classics, detective stories or Agatha Christie though, not comedy.

[gingerjedi]

Ah, I see what you mean now:

YouTube - Henning Wehn-Stand up introduced by Stewart Lee BBC Comedy

Yes, now try doing it with the video html tags rather than the url ones smart arse!

[TimberWolf]

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Ah, I see what you mean now:

YouTube - Henning Wehn-Stand up introduced by Stewart Lee BBC Comedy

[TimberWolf]

I saw him support Stewart Lee.

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1:34

That's where I nicked it from. I thought he was funnier than that though.

"I am the German comedy ambassador"

[gingerjedi]

Some people joke that Germans do not have a sense of humour, but Germans do not find this a laughing matter.

I saw him support Stewart Lee.

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[stek]

And watch 'Wo ist Fred', cracking movie!

Not a mag tho...

[darrenb]

I'm surprised no-one mentioned Eulenspiegel.

[ThomasSoerensen]

So I walked into this great shop filled wall to wall with every type of magazine. About a hundred different titles for computers, a hundred for masculinity, a hundred for home improvement, about fifty on sudoku puzzles alone, etc, etc. It's all in German of course and I can't understand much, but I thought I'd learn it starting out with some comics or something. All I can find is a translation of Daffy the Duck.

So I ask the Maedchen if they have a magazine with some good German jokes in it. She takes a few seconds to understand the concept, looks at me as if I'm mad, takes another few seconds to search the back of her memory, then gives me a definitive "Nein!?!"

Maybe somebody with a knowledge of the Continent can help me out here? I haven't even sorted out my apartment and health insurance yet, and I'm really blocked on this one issue.

The Germans find the Financial Times quite amusing.

[DaveB]

Who says the Germans have no sense of fun?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13107599

[PRC1964]

Titanic magazine?

You can get fired from your job as a sports presenter for jokes like this one:

Bei der Frauenfußball-WM sollen erstmals Headphones zum Einsatz kommen, über die sich die Schiedsrichterinnen während des Spiels von ihren Ehemännern die Abseitsregel erklären lassen können

[doodab]

Something of a tradition in these parts

[scooterscot]

Zo, a british and a german were out hunting. They zee a wabbit the brit aims, fires and misses 10cm to the left. The German takes a shot misses 10 cm to the right. He proceeds to walk away. The brit says but surely now we'll hit the rabbit with a third shot, Ja says the german but on average the rabbit is dead.

[stek]

Some people joke that Germans do not have a sense of humour, but Germans do not find this a laughing matter.

Was it Bob Monkhouse who said to his family he was going to be a comedian and they just laughed.

Bob later commented "Well, they're not laughing now...."

[TimberWolf]

Some people joke that Germans do not have a sense of humour, but Germans do not find this a laughing matter.

[stek]

So I walked into this great shop filled wall to wall with every type of magazine. About a hundred different titles for computers, a hundred for masculinity, a hundred for home improvement, about fifty on sudoku puzzles alone, etc, etc. It's all in German of course and I can't understand much, but I thought I'd learn it starting out with some comics or something. All I can find is a translation of Daffy the Duck.

So I ask the Maedchen if they have a magazine with some good German jokes in it. She takes a few seconds to understand the concept, looks at me as if I'm mad, takes another few seconds to search the back of her memory, then gives me a definitive "Nein!?!"

Maybe somebody with a knowledge of the Continent can help me out here? I haven't even sorted out my apartment and health insurance yet, and I'm really blocked on this one issue.

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

Hahaha!