English-speakers have spent decades deriding French humour, but are the French truly not funny? Or are their jokes just hard for foreigners to understand? The French are known for many things - from ...

When learning French, one of the hardest things to do is to understand jokes - which are often layered in cultural references or complicated wordplay. It's common for new arrivals in France - and ...

The French humor magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, an act that comes in the wake of violence fueled by the American made video depicting him in ...

The Palo Alto Players’ production of playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” deserves huge audiences because it’s both laugh-out-loud funny and starkly serious. The play manages to find ...

The Germans are the world's least funny people. We know this because Badoo.com, which claims to be the world's largest Internet social network, asked 30,000 people in 15 countries which people they ...