Posted on 06/06/2011 11:38:31 AM PDT by JoeProBono
LONDON, - A London-based Web site said its poll of 30,000 people in 15 countries named Germans the "least funny nationality."
Social networking site Badoo.com said 30,000 users of the Web site were asked during the months of April and May to choose the funniest and least funny nationalities from a list of 15 and they chose people from the United States as the funniest and Germans as the least funny.
Ranking second on the list of the funniest nationalities were the Spanish, followed by Italians, Brazilians, French people, Mexicans and the British.
Following the Germans on the least funny list were Russians, Turks, the British and people from the United States.
"When we meet someone new, one of the first things we notice is whether they make us laugh", said Lloyd Price, Badoo's director of marketing. "Sometimes, it seems the most important thing."
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I agree. The American office as well as other American versions of British offshoot series are much funnier.However,Gervais can be good as a character in TV and cinema and also his standup can be pretty good. I thought he was very good in recent movie The History of Lying.I think he also wrote the screenplay for it.
Actually, the Amish are swiss in origin.
Yeah. Of course, some things are only funny in cultural context. I wonder if Germans think other Germans are funny. It might depend on who the judges of who was funny were. And also, I bet 15 year old boys think other 15 year old boys are hysterically funny, but 45 year old female school teachers don’t think they are at all, etc. :) It’s a little subjective.
I also wonder how much language has to do with it. By that I mean, does the language you grow up speaking affect your world view and does that affect things like your sense of humor? I don’t know if I”m making sense (I know what I mean but I’m not sure I’m conveying it).
Some Poles have a great deadpan sense of humor. I have also laughed a lot with Indians, Japanese and Spaniards.
The happiest man in the world drinks German beer, eats Chinese food, has a Japanese wife, and lives in the U.S.A.
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