Post examples of typical kinds of humour from your country.
I start:
In Germany, it is considered humorous to sing the following song
"Allee, Allee, Allee... eine Straße, viele Bäume, ja das ist eine Allee."
It's a word play regarding the similar sounds of olé/alé and Allee, which means alley.
Obviously there aren't any jokes about the current regime, as they are considered treasonable offences and penalised by life in jail and/or your own personalised mysterious disappearance.
Comrade Brezhnev, is it true that you collect political jokes?" – "Yes" – "And how many have you collected so far?" – "Three and a half labor camps.
In a prison, two inmates are comparing notes. "What did they arrest you for?" asks the first. "Was it a political or common crime?" "Of course it was political. I'm a plumber. They summoned me to the district Party committee to fix the sewage pipes. I looked and said, 'Hey, the entire system needs to be replaced.' So they gave me seven years.
Dad, can I have the car keys?" / "OK, but don't lose them. We will get the car in only seven years!
Three men are sitting in a cell in the (KGB headquarters) Dzerzhinsky Square. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned, who replies, "Because I criticized Karl Radek." The first man responds, "But I am here because I spoke out in favor of Radek!" They turn to the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back, and ask him why he is in jail. He answers, "I'm Karl Radek."
>>22649 I enjoyed
>An American man and a Soviet man died on the same day and went to Hell together. The Devil told them: "You may choose to enter two different types of Hell: the first is the American-style one, where you can do anything you like, but only on condition of eating a bucketful of manure every day; the second is the Soviet-style hell, where you can ALSO do anything you like, but only on condition of eating TWO bucketfuls of manure a day." The American chose the American-style Hell, and the Soviet man chose the Soviet-style one. A few months later, they met again. The Soviet man asked the American: "Hi, how are you getting on?" The American said: "I'm fine, but I can't stand the bucketful of manure every day. How about you?" The Soviet man replied: "Well, I'm fine, too, except that I don't know whether we had a shortage of manure, or if somebody stole all the buckets."
but don't Russians make jokes about anything other than politics? Maybe those would be lost on us.
>>22650 I've heard a few other Russian jokes - incomprehensible tales about bears being depressed in the forest. You've aroused my curiousity now, but my google-fu is too weak to bring anything up.
The Russian gives his party the mandated 99 and 3/4 apples and most of his family starves because they only have a quarter of an apple left between them for the year.
The American looks at the apples and wonders what they are. He proceeds to eat his pizza, which counts as one of his five fruit and veg a day thanks to recent legislation.
The Scotsman eats one of the apples and makes an exaggerated show of spitting it out and calling the person who gave him the apples a fucking queer loudly. He then glasses him while screaming the mantra "GLASGAE' RULES CUNT!"
I've always wanted to be thick, racism is just so easy to do and is an excellent bonding tool for stupid people.
>>22652 >The Ukranian takes the apples and takes a bite out of each one, then he says 'Now no one can have them'.
Ironic that should be a Russian joke, since that's basically Russian military doctrine.
I'll ask some friends (not a native) for some non-political ones, and try to report back.
Comedy isn't that big a thing here at all, except for this one show which is basically a cross between The Generation Game, Who's Line is it Anyway and the Premier League. It's like something the Germans would invent - (fake) impromptu competitive comedy where teams compete under very strict rules to win points from judges and rise within a series of leagues. On TV.
Your description of this programme was compelling enough that I bookmarked an episode of this on youtube, but I never found the time to watch it. Probably for the best.
