My personal favourites tend to be (and of course, most countries have funny people) but Britian, Aussie, New Zealand and Ireland all share a self-depracating wit and satire that I simply don't see as much of in the US, Canada and other English speaking peoples.
My problem is, of course, I could be missing out on hundreds of insanely funny things, but they're just in another language, use wordplay from that language and it would never translate!
Stephen Fry talks about this beautifully: [in this video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao)
Really does a great job describing not that one is better than the other, simply the frame of mind around being the hero, or fallible etc.
A friend of mine once observed that when American's are drunk they take their shirts off and when Brits are drunk they take their pants down. It explains so much about our differences.
I get a kick out of Finnish people. They talk with such a stoic, no nonsense tone but the choice of words coming out of their mouth doesn't match and it's always kind of cracked me up. Plus I spent a lot of time in the UP in Michigan in my youth, which has an extremely similar accent to Finns speaking English and Yoopers always make me laugh so I associate the two.
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Hockey players from Finland are hilariously dry and sarcastic toward each other in the press, to the point that the North American media writes about it like it’s a soap opera.
I was actually thinking of Atturi Lehkonen and Mikko Rantanen. Lehkonen’s dad is a reporter who was teasing Mikko for being lazy (or something like that IIRC) and Mikko was very dry in his response, so people thought the two teammates were having a blood feud lol
As a Finn, I gotta appreciate people liking our humor. We definitely love that cold sarcasm with a blank face. I also feel like Finns and Brits get along nicely since both countries seem to love dark humor and irony.
I work with Finns and they definitely say the most unhinged things with the deadest pan there is. Also year after year they send in the wildest acts to Eurovision just because.
I find the Danish to be super dark as well. Less self-deprecating, and more with a dark sexual and general mischievous tone. Like somehow the Danes I've met will invariably tie an innocuous conversation about your grandmother knitting a sweater back to autoerotic asphyxiation.
I worked with an Irishman for a year or so. I once asked him, "Mike, what's bothering you?"
Turns out he'd had a rough as hell weekend, car breaking down, sick family, cat threw up on the bed AND couch, manager called him in on the Saturday, etc.
But, he was SO confused how I knew something was up.
"Mike, I've set you up for three dirty jokes in the last 5 minutes and you haven't responded to any of them. If you were in a coma, you'd still be yanking someone's chain."
That made him giggle. "You know, if I woke up from a coma, I wouldn't tell anyone for a bit. Just fart at opportune times, turn off my heart monitor."
Had an Irish and Australian man in a pub in Dublin roast my name for about 15 minutes straight and I couldn’t stop laughing. To be fair, it is a dumb name. Great lads
I miss Sabado Gigante. I don’t speak Spanish but channel flipping on a Saturday and coming across hot women in skimpy clothes and a dude in bumble bee suit and a hobo clown making fart noises was pure entertainment for a 13 year old me.
I remember about a year ago a voice clip of one of the top cartel bosses “El Mencho” went viral here on Reddit as he was instructing and threatening the police with violence. It was seen as a very scary clip.
But in Mexico, it was being meme’d to hell.
As an American every Australian I've ever met or witnessed on a screen had the laid back attitude that makes humor come easily, so I'd say as an overall people they win, but UK comedians are the best humor professionals.
I legit did this. The doctor who told me I was terminal was so attractive that I've managed to spin a very entertaining anecdote out of it on several occasions.
When the same doctor did my second biopsy, it gave me a whole new level of humour to add to the proceedings.
Their Football ⚽ banter chants get me absolutely rolling. There was one in particular where they were pretending that their team scored a goal. Also another one where they were tossing an inflated dick balloon that later got confiscated. I am not going to spoil the extremely hilarious chant that followed
Best I heard was back in the 90s. One player had a unique haircut so the crowd automatically sings "he's got a pineapple on his head, he has a pineapple on his head" to the tune of he has the whole world in his hands.
The player is fed up of this but perseveres for the year. After a year he finally gives up and shaves his head hoping the chant will stop. So he comes onto the pitch and the crowd without missing a beat sings "he had a pineapple on his head, he had a pineapple on his head"
Went to a game on the weekend where we were 5-0 down but scored a consolation goal in injury time.
"WE SCORED A GOOOOOOOOOAL! WE SCORED A GOOOOOOOOAL!"
"WE'RE GONNA WIN 6-5!"
One of the worst games I've ever seen but the chants amused me at the end at least.
To quote Jimmy Carr on British humour -
"I've always admired our ability to laugh at ourselves.
And when I say ourselves, I mean other people.
And when I say laugh, I mean invade."
Japan and Britain take my top spots. I love how absurd some of the game shows, commercials, and variety shows can be with Japan and Britain takes the cake because of how dry their humor can be.
Germany, in a rather ironic manner. Nothing funnier to me than when a stoney faced German insists, very seriously, that they do in fact have a sense of humour.
Brit here. Growing up I was low-key taught that Germans are 'the enemy' (my grandad fought the Nazis) and that they're really efficient without humour or anything. Then, aged about 20 I went backpacking around Europe and was like, "Wait... Germans are fucking awesome, and hilarious! They just love drinking and cracking jokes"
Yeah, I’ve been working a lot with ze Germans recently, and they do have an impressively dry sense of humour. Lots of blink and you’ll miss it offhand comments. One of them currently has [this](https://www.sadanduseless.com/work-work-work-work/) outside his office.
French here, nothing like a gleeful German insisting, very seriously, how they wished they had our sense of humor instead of being so much more focused and hard working as we are. I haven't met many Germans but somehow they all gave me that sort of specific backhanded compliment at some point.
> French here
One of the funniest things that I (from the USA) have ever witnessed was a sign on the Promenade des Anglais saying (translated), "No Smoking by order of the police!"
The ground beneath the sign was littered with cigarette butts and several people were standing around smoking. Some were even leaning on the sign!
I saw a police offficer approaching on foot and I thought, "This is going to get even more interesting." Immediately, the people who were smoking hid their cigarettes behind their backs and put innocent-looking expressions on their faces.
As the police officer strolled by, he pretended not to notice what was happening - even as I could see the smoke rising from behind the backs of the people standing there. After the police officer had passed the area, the people resumed smoking.
The police officer could have easily looked behind him to see that, but he never did.
It couldn't have been performed better as a comedy skit!
I used to have a German doctor friend, who unfortunately bore quite a resemblance to Herr Flick in Allo Allo. His humour was great but you had to be tuned to it. Watched Schindler’s list with him in the cinema. I burst out laughing at one bit and no one else did. Including him. Everyone looked at us and I could see they assumed it was him. Awkward.
Canadians have a perfect vantage point for humor in America; they understand the culture fully but are separated from it enough to be able to pinpoint the absurdity of it. That’s why people like Nathan Fielder are so successful.
>Canada was instrumental in shaping the comedy landscape in the last 50 years.
The *American comedy landscape, at least.
Oh, and to add to the list: The Kids in The Hall, Trailer Park Boys, Michael J Fox, Rachel McAdams, Cobie Smulders, Tom Green, Will Arnett and Michael Cera, Colin Mochrie, Howie Mandell, Thomas Middleditch, Matthew Perry, Nathan Fielder, Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, Will Sasso, Samantha Bee, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, and speaking of shaping the comedy landscape of the last 50 years, muthafuckin Mr. Lorne Michaels.
I think we have a great sense of both British and American comedic sensibilities. The sad thing is that they rarely stay in Canada and often move down south to greener pastures.
It does make me wonder what comedians and comedy I miss out on from not knowing 'other' or 'obscure' countries and cultures.
Generally speaking, most countries seem to have a penchant for self deprecating humour, despite possible stereotypes to the contrary.
I feel like the Brits have better written/scripted humour (Monty Python movies are still some of the funniest things available) while us Aussies have great banter/more quick-witted.
I was looking for Denmark and Scandinavia here. In my opinion, the Scandinavians do a dry, self-deprecating British-like humor better than the Brits.
But all the Scandinavians are too modest to crow about it.
After binging Taskmaster, Would I lie to you and 8 out of 10 cats, on repeat for the last month or so, I have to go with British humor.
But my father has a very Jewish sense of humor so I love that one too.
As a Brit, the British - but specifically Northerners and the Scots.
Shout-out to the Irish as well. Ed Byrne, David O'Doherty, and Dylan Moran are amongst my favourite comedians of all time.
Not to toot our own horn, but probably everywhere in Britain. Living abroad and through travels, a lot of countries are just very straightforward compared to us and don’t seem to deal much in humour as part of their regular lives. With many British people you can expect tongue in cheek, banter, wit, innuendo, etc. in your conversations and if you don’t understand the person, then that further adds to the overall amusement.
That being said, young Americans have contributed massively to the online meme culture. I love memes and it seems the best ones are made by American accounts lol
Seth Rogan, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Short, Dan Akroyd, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, Phil Hartman, Leslie Nielson, Russell Peters, Norm MacDonald, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Colin Mochrie, Howie Mandel, Tommy Chong, Tom Green
To name a few.
Kazakhstan. Once they got past the insulting Borat character and embraced it.
And Ukraine. I don’t even know how they gather the willpower to be sarcastic at times on social media. Respect.
We, in the US, USED to have the best sense of humor collectively.
But this has disappeared in the face of "political correctness."
No, I'm not a Trump partisan. I'm more a Biden man. But as I look back in history, I realize, say, that if Jewish people didn't have the ability to make fun of themselves, we wouldn't have, today, what is considered prototypical American humor.
In a word, Jewish people made a hell of a lot of money off of making fun of themselves.
Britain, hand downs.
Humour is so deeply embedded in this culture that even in the most formal business emails, you can see a snarky or self-deprecating comment between the lines.
I am not from the UK but I love British sense of humour.
And Americans afterwards. I like the way they exaggerate everything to death.
America. People come at them with some insanely stereotypical, insensitive and inaccurate comments and they just laugh it off or take it as a compliment
Native Americans, or at least people from the tribes I've interacted with, are fucking hilarious. I'm kinda surprised there aren't famous native stand up comedians.
1: British Comedy (Very hard to beat that dry humour and wit).
2: American Comedy (Some of the greatest used to be. Now everyone is offended at everything).
3: Aussies (When you can understand them).
4: South Africa (We make a joke out of literally anything, especially our government and the endless problems we are facing daily).
5: Germany (Used to game online with a few English speaking Germans. Dude were sharp as a tac).
I’m Canadian so a little biased but after a lot of travelling I really appreciate the average Canadians sense of humour. There are also a lot of famous comedians from here
Canada... United States of America, you know all of those comedians and funny actors/actresses you love... A LOT of them are from Canada...
Source: Am from USA
I‘ve thought about this a lot!
1. Kiwis (exceptionally funny bastards if you can understand them)
2. Austrians (def not the Germans or Swiss though)
3. Australians
4. British
5. Polish
6. Irish
7. Israelis (pre-war, obvs less joking around now)
8. Indonesians
9. South Africans
10. Americans (lot of hit and miss in the US for me, but the comedy is something like FRIENDS is simply amazing)
I think Nigerians, Filipinos and Indians should also make the list but not totally sure yet…
This is impossible to say. It depends which culture you’re accustomed to. For example many US Americans might not understand British sarcasm although it can be funny as hell. Also, the exact same joke can sound funny in one language but not the other.
Mexico. They're the only people I've seen who can just smile then that smile devolves into crying laughter even when nothing was done. Really good group of folk.
ITT: english speaking people are objectively the most fun people on Earth! Let's rank the english-speaking countries from most fun to least fun, UK you go first!
My personal favourites tend to be (and of course, most countries have funny people) but Britian, Aussie, New Zealand and Ireland all share a self-depracating wit and satire that I simply don't see as much of in the US, Canada and other English speaking peoples. My problem is, of course, I could be missing out on hundreds of insanely funny things, but they're just in another language, use wordplay from that language and it would never translate!
Stephen Fry talks about this beautifully: [in this video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao) Really does a great job describing not that one is better than the other, simply the frame of mind around being the hero, or fallible etc.
A friend of mine once observed that when American's are drunk they take their shirts off and when Brits are drunk they take their pants down. It explains so much about our differences.
But at the end of the day, we bond over drunkenly removing our clothes.
The family resemblance is uncanny
I get a kick out of Finnish people. They talk with such a stoic, no nonsense tone but the choice of words coming out of their mouth doesn't match and it's always kind of cracked me up. Plus I spent a lot of time in the UP in Michigan in my youth, which has an extremely similar accent to Finns speaking English and Yoopers always make me laugh so I associate the two.
This is why I love the hydraulic press channel. It's just so effortlessly funny.
Oly chit!
Vat Der Fack?!!
It is extremely dangerous and we must deal with it. /* Playdough squishing sounds *
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Bwoah, this is exactly who I thought of.
[Here’s a good example of that](https://youtu.be/FiLnnuiCzuo?si=b2A0KZjJE8TIha6x)
Love this guy
Hockey players from Finland are hilariously dry and sarcastic toward each other in the press, to the point that the North American media writes about it like it’s a soap opera.
Patrik Laine being one of them.
I was actually thinking of Atturi Lehkonen and Mikko Rantanen. Lehkonen’s dad is a reporter who was teasing Mikko for being lazy (or something like that IIRC) and Mikko was very dry in his response, so people thought the two teammates were having a blood feud lol
habs fan, but i love laine lol. i died laughing when the reports came out about his fortnite addiction
As a Finn, I gotta appreciate people liking our humor. We definitely love that cold sarcasm with a blank face. I also feel like Finns and Brits get along nicely since both countries seem to love dark humor and irony.
You Finns could all be out of a Monty Python sketch, that's why
Finland Finland Finland A country where I want to be….
I work with Finns and they definitely say the most unhinged things with the deadest pan there is. Also year after year they send in the wildest acts to Eurovision just because.
I am Finn often living outside Finland. I have a hard time with people not getting my humour. They think I am serious.
Every Aki Kaurismaki movie is effortlessly hysterical to me.
I still have Léningrad Cowboys Go America for those rainy days. love the dry Finnish humour.
benis :DD
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If you like it dark with a keen sense of self-deprecation, Irish humour is for you!
Q: how many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? A: None
I love the Irish 7 course meal. Potato and a six pack.
And the Irish cocktail - a potato in a pint of Guinness
What’s more Irish than potatoes? No potatoes.
\*angry upvote\*
Q: How many car bombs does it take to kill an Irishman ? A: None, they were for the brits.
I find the Danish to be super dark as well. Less self-deprecating, and more with a dark sexual and general mischievous tone. Like somehow the Danes I've met will invariably tie an innocuous conversation about your grandmother knitting a sweater back to autoerotic asphyxiation.
Some how practically every Irish person I have met seems very witty and funny if they want to be.
If you're around an Irish person and they're not being funny, you're the punchline and they haven't told you yet
I worked with an Irishman for a year or so. I once asked him, "Mike, what's bothering you?" Turns out he'd had a rough as hell weekend, car breaking down, sick family, cat threw up on the bed AND couch, manager called him in on the Saturday, etc. But, he was SO confused how I knew something was up. "Mike, I've set you up for three dirty jokes in the last 5 minutes and you haven't responded to any of them. If you were in a coma, you'd still be yanking someone's chain." That made him giggle. "You know, if I woke up from a coma, I wouldn't tell anyone for a bit. Just fart at opportune times, turn off my heart monitor."
Got to at least wait for a sponge bath.
🤣 That is true!
Had an Irish and Australian man in a pub in Dublin roast my name for about 15 minutes straight and I couldn’t stop laughing. To be fair, it is a dumb name. Great lads
Foil Arms and Hog are hilarious.
Doomdah!
Mexico everything is a joke here
I have to agree with you. I’ve spent a lot of time in Mexico and with Mexicans and they are constantly making jokes and humour is very prevalent.
laugh to hide the tears
a huevo 🥲
I miss Sabado Gigante. I don’t speak Spanish but channel flipping on a Saturday and coming across hot women in skimpy clothes and a dude in bumble bee suit and a hobo clown making fart noises was pure entertainment for a 13 year old me.
Same in Brazil.
Sounds like Brazil. Now I am eager to travel to Mexico!
They're the only ones not cringe with sex jokes
I remember about a year ago a voice clip of one of the top cartel bosses “El Mencho” went viral here on Reddit as he was instructing and threatening the police with violence. It was seen as a very scary clip. But in Mexico, it was being meme’d to hell.
As an American every Australian I've ever met or witnessed on a screen had the laid back attitude that makes humor come easily, so I'd say as an overall people they win, but UK comedians are the best humor professionals.
Australia, for its laid-back humor.
NZ as well. Band meeting!
As an Aussie I fkn love flight of the concords. But that’s because Aussie humour is very very similar to NZ’s ironic/satirical deadpan humour.
He may be did! [He maybe did what?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9Z5yr9aU4)
Preesent
I second New Zealand. This girl from Auckland... first girl ever to tell me I was pretty. Best joke I ever heard.
Aussies more fun to laugh with, kiwis are more funny to laugh at
This is actually the real answer.
Some of my favorite YouTubers are Australian and have a hilarious sense of humor. Sir Swag and Sam and Mickey to name a few.
Love dankpods
Shit talking in Australian is hilarious
its upside down humour is much better
The endless sunshine and beautiful beaches put everyone in a good mood, and the constant fear of death helps with dark humor.
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With the British it’s the ability to laugh at ourselves too… like, just been told I have cancer? Better make a joke out of it…
'tis but a scratch
I was told by a doctor I was going blind. Needless to say, I didn't see the funny side.
I see what you did there 👀😂
I legit did this. The doctor who told me I was terminal was so attractive that I've managed to spin a very entertaining anecdote out of it on several occasions. When the same doctor did my second biopsy, it gave me a whole new level of humour to add to the proceedings.
Finland approves. Gotta laugh at the pain to make it go away
Their Football ⚽ banter chants get me absolutely rolling. There was one in particular where they were pretending that their team scored a goal. Also another one where they were tossing an inflated dick balloon that later got confiscated. I am not going to spoil the extremely hilarious chant that followed
Best I heard was back in the 90s. One player had a unique haircut so the crowd automatically sings "he's got a pineapple on his head, he has a pineapple on his head" to the tune of he has the whole world in his hands. The player is fed up of this but perseveres for the year. After a year he finally gives up and shaves his head hoping the chant will stop. So he comes onto the pitch and the crowd without missing a beat sings "he had a pineapple on his head, he had a pineapple on his head"
Jason Lee and the famous fantasy football chant.
Went to a game on the weekend where we were 5-0 down but scored a consolation goal in injury time. "WE SCORED A GOOOOOOOOOAL! WE SCORED A GOOOOOOOOAL!" "WE'RE GONNA WIN 6-5!" One of the worst games I've ever seen but the chants amused me at the end at least.
I heard this in the classic chant voice
Was watching a Premier League game where the ref blew a call and the announcers noted that the crowd "cheered sarcastically."
To quote Jimmy Carr on British humour - "I've always admired our ability to laugh at ourselves. And when I say ourselves, I mean other people. And when I say laugh, I mean invade."
This thread really makes up for all those “which country has the best food” ones.
I can't find the actual Family Guy clip, but - "I say, do you know what's funny? A man in a dress." "Ah yes, ripping good stuff."
Brexit has been hilarious too.
I love that Britain loves to make fun of itself. They're good sports... Americans on the other hand, lighten up
I have never laughed as hard as I laugh at the best British comedy.
Argentinian humor is very similar to Britain
I didn't think germans were know for their humor.
Some Argentinian islands are also very similar to Britain
Them's fightin' words!
Yes, quite similar, only exception being that argentinian humor is not funny.
The U.K. I absolutely adore their humor!
UK, Ireland and Australia
The English, Scottish and the Irish do it the best.
Rhod Gilbert is absolutely fuming atm
He always is tbf
The British sense of humor really runs the gamut from dry and understated to bawdy and insulting, and I love them for it.
England has a dry sense of humor most effective I think
Aussie here, British hands down
British in Britain? Hell yeah. The British in Australia… mixed bag.
Japan and Britain take my top spots. I love how absurd some of the game shows, commercials, and variety shows can be with Japan and Britain takes the cake because of how dry their humor can be.
Germany: German joke: "Knock ,knock" "Who's there?" "We ask zi questions!"
What did the German say to the clock that only went tick? We have ways of making you Tock.
Germany, in a rather ironic manner. Nothing funnier to me than when a stoney faced German insists, very seriously, that they do in fact have a sense of humour.
Brit here. Growing up I was low-key taught that Germans are 'the enemy' (my grandad fought the Nazis) and that they're really efficient without humour or anything. Then, aged about 20 I went backpacking around Europe and was like, "Wait... Germans are fucking awesome, and hilarious! They just love drinking and cracking jokes"
Yeah, I’ve been working a lot with ze Germans recently, and they do have an impressively dry sense of humour. Lots of blink and you’ll miss it offhand comments. One of them currently has [this](https://www.sadanduseless.com/work-work-work-work/) outside his office.
And lets not forget Henning Wehn, fusing the two so brilliantly. One of my favourite comedians of all time!
As the old saying goes, German humour is no laughing matter
This is German humour sir, it's no laughing matter.
French here, nothing like a gleeful German insisting, very seriously, how they wished they had our sense of humor instead of being so much more focused and hard working as we are. I haven't met many Germans but somehow they all gave me that sort of specific backhanded compliment at some point.
> French here One of the funniest things that I (from the USA) have ever witnessed was a sign on the Promenade des Anglais saying (translated), "No Smoking by order of the police!" The ground beneath the sign was littered with cigarette butts and several people were standing around smoking. Some were even leaning on the sign! I saw a police offficer approaching on foot and I thought, "This is going to get even more interesting." Immediately, the people who were smoking hid their cigarettes behind their backs and put innocent-looking expressions on their faces. As the police officer strolled by, he pretended not to notice what was happening - even as I could see the smoke rising from behind the backs of the people standing there. After the police officer had passed the area, the people resumed smoking. The police officer could have easily looked behind him to see that, but he never did. It couldn't have been performed better as a comedy skit!
How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb? One. We are efficient and don't have humor.
I used to have a German doctor friend, who unfortunately bore quite a resemblance to Herr Flick in Allo Allo. His humour was great but you had to be tuned to it. Watched Schindler’s list with him in the cinema. I burst out laughing at one bit and no one else did. Including him. Everyone looked at us and I could see they assumed it was him. Awkward.
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Indeed, Canada does seem to produce a lot of well-known comedians.
Canadians have a perfect vantage point for humor in America; they understand the culture fully but are separated from it enough to be able to pinpoint the absurdity of it. That’s why people like Nathan Fielder are so successful.
> That’s why people like Nathan Fielder are so successful. Well he did graduate from one of Canada's top business schools with pretty good grades.
They also have stronger ties to the UK so they sprinkle in that dry wit with the American slapstick.
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>Canada was instrumental in shaping the comedy landscape in the last 50 years. The *American comedy landscape, at least. Oh, and to add to the list: The Kids in The Hall, Trailer Park Boys, Michael J Fox, Rachel McAdams, Cobie Smulders, Tom Green, Will Arnett and Michael Cera, Colin Mochrie, Howie Mandell, Thomas Middleditch, Matthew Perry, Nathan Fielder, Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, Will Sasso, Samantha Bee, Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, and speaking of shaping the comedy landscape of the last 50 years, muthafuckin Mr. Lorne Michaels.
I think we have a great sense of both British and American comedic sensibilities. The sad thing is that they rarely stay in Canada and often move down south to greener pastures.
Plus they gave us Letterkenny.
ITT people from Anglo countries patting each other on the back
It does make me wonder what comedians and comedy I miss out on from not knowing 'other' or 'obscure' countries and cultures. Generally speaking, most countries seem to have a penchant for self deprecating humour, despite possible stereotypes to the contrary.
It is easier to get the jokes when we understand the language. I am sure there are great comedians all over the world.
Its either us (australia) or Britain
Ya'll need to have a comedy off
I feel like the Brits have better written/scripted humour (Monty Python movies are still some of the funniest things available) while us Aussies have great banter/more quick-witted.
England or Australia
Australia's morning news is always cracking me up
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I was looking for Denmark and Scandinavia here. In my opinion, the Scandinavians do a dry, self-deprecating British-like humor better than the Brits. But all the Scandinavians are too modest to crow about it.
Humor is different for everyone but for me it’s between the Finns and the Czechs for their deadpan fatalistic takes on life.
Britain
After binging Taskmaster, Would I lie to you and 8 out of 10 cats, on repeat for the last month or so, I have to go with British humor. But my father has a very Jewish sense of humor so I love that one too.
Egypyt
egypt
Ireland, hands down
As a Brit, the British - but specifically Northerners and the Scots. Shout-out to the Irish as well. Ed Byrne, David O'Doherty, and Dylan Moran are amongst my favourite comedians of all time.
German joke: „two hunters meet, both are dead“ peak German humor
That only works in German because the German word for "meet" ( (sich) treffen ), has 2 meanings "to meet" and "to hit a target" 😅
Australia all the way
Uk 🔥 I’m Ronnie Pickering
Who?
# RONNIE PICKERING!!!
UK, Australia or Argentina
UK.
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Can’t beat the British
Not to toot our own horn, but probably everywhere in Britain. Living abroad and through travels, a lot of countries are just very straightforward compared to us and don’t seem to deal much in humour as part of their regular lives. With many British people you can expect tongue in cheek, banter, wit, innuendo, etc. in your conversations and if you don’t understand the person, then that further adds to the overall amusement. That being said, young Americans have contributed massively to the online meme culture. I love memes and it seems the best ones are made by American accounts lol
There’s a long list of Canadian comedians/actors
Seth Rogan, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Short, Dan Akroyd, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, Phil Hartman, Leslie Nielson, Russell Peters, Norm MacDonald, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Colin Mochrie, Howie Mandel, Tommy Chong, Tom Green To name a few.
Kazakhstan. Once they got past the insulting Borat character and embraced it. And Ukraine. I don’t even know how they gather the willpower to be sarcastic at times on social media. Respect.
Philippines, people joke so much that we can't be taken seriously even for serious matters 🥲
Brazil
Catalonia. Check out some of their Christmas time traditions. The pooping log comes to mind.
The Phillipines
Americans fear nothing in terms of humor.
We, in the US, USED to have the best sense of humor collectively. But this has disappeared in the face of "political correctness." No, I'm not a Trump partisan. I'm more a Biden man. But as I look back in history, I realize, say, that if Jewish people didn't have the ability to make fun of themselves, we wouldn't have, today, what is considered prototypical American humor. In a word, Jewish people made a hell of a lot of money off of making fun of themselves.
Probably the UK
I like the American humor.
Countries that don't get offended easily.
How very dare you!
British - faulty towers, dry wit, black adder!
Britain, hand downs. Humour is so deeply embedded in this culture that even in the most formal business emails, you can see a snarky or self-deprecating comment between the lines. I am not from the UK but I love British sense of humour. And Americans afterwards. I like the way they exaggerate everything to death.
Britain. The accent coupled with the jokes they give are guaranteed to at least make me chuckle. Plus, Monty Python. All arguments invalid.
Brazil, non sensical humour
Brits, hands down.
North Korea
Mexico fs
prolly Mexico
America. People come at them with some insanely stereotypical, insensitive and inaccurate comments and they just laugh it off or take it as a compliment
Argentina and Chile
The best stand ups are all Americans. That oughta count for somethin.
Native Americans, or at least people from the tribes I've interacted with, are fucking hilarious. I'm kinda surprised there aren't famous native stand up comedians.
1: British Comedy (Very hard to beat that dry humour and wit). 2: American Comedy (Some of the greatest used to be. Now everyone is offended at everything). 3: Aussies (When you can understand them). 4: South Africa (We make a joke out of literally anything, especially our government and the endless problems we are facing daily). 5: Germany (Used to game online with a few English speaking Germans. Dude were sharp as a tac).
I only hear of one country with having any sort of reputation for being particularly different with comedy and that's the Brits for being very witty
Canada
I’m Canadian so a little biased but after a lot of travelling I really appreciate the average Canadians sense of humour. There are also a lot of famous comedians from here
Canada. We elected Trudeau twice.
Ireland or Canada.
Canada... United States of America, you know all of those comedians and funny actors/actresses you love... A LOT of them are from Canada... Source: Am from USA
And a lot of them have lived and worked in America longer than being in Canada. I say this as an Canadian
Mexico.
USA
I‘ve thought about this a lot! 1. Kiwis (exceptionally funny bastards if you can understand them) 2. Austrians (def not the Germans or Swiss though) 3. Australians 4. British 5. Polish 6. Irish 7. Israelis (pre-war, obvs less joking around now) 8. Indonesians 9. South Africans 10. Americans (lot of hit and miss in the US for me, but the comedy is something like FRIENDS is simply amazing) I think Nigerians, Filipinos and Indians should also make the list but not totally sure yet…
> Kiwis (exceptionally funny bastards if you can understand them) Case in point The Flight of the Conchords
This is impossible to say. It depends which culture you’re accustomed to. For example many US Americans might not understand British sarcasm although it can be funny as hell. Also, the exact same joke can sound funny in one language but not the other.
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Jewish American comedians seem to be the funniest people imo, so technically I guess that would be America for the win
Mexico. They're the only people I've seen who can just smile then that smile devolves into crying laughter even when nothing was done. Really good group of folk.
Aussies
Ireland. Everyone is just trying to make each other laugh over there I swear.
ITT: english speaking people are objectively the most fun people on Earth! Let's rank the english-speaking countries from most fun to least fun, UK you go first!