And if you can, can you link me to some of their material? Youtube etc...

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

Judging from your signature you wouldn't understand anything he says anyway .

I am only talking about German ones edit
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Serious said:

Kurt Krömer, for example.




THE funniest German is Loriot though, no contest. But he's not what you'd call "comedian".



This is one of his "simpler" scetches:




This is one of my favorites:

ProSieben used to be on my digital box and I occasionally saw Stefan Raab's show, Tv Total. I didn't understand all of it (I do understand some German, especially if it's written) but I liked especially the interviews he did in English with celebs that came to his show. Stefan Raab is a German comedian, TV-host and an occasional musician (he even competed in the Eurovision song contest once).

Here's an interview he did with AC/DC's Angus Young:


And here's his interview with Will Smith:

purplehippieonthe1 said:

I love Stefan Raab!!!

Here is Stefan Raab with Kylie Minogue and Nelly, I love this one:


Here's an old one of Stefan Raab with Busta Rhymes:


And here's his performance for the Eurovision song contest when he reached the 5th place::

ThirdandFinal said:

Here's two. One of the lads is called Sugar Sammy. He's a Desi boy Not French per se but he performs fluently in the language as he hails from Montreal.
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Eddie Izzard does comedy in French.

The french ones I can think about at the moment are Jean Dujardin and Bruno Salomone












Both

Stefan Raab is the coolest but there's also

Michael Mittermeier

and my favorite...

OTTO!

RenHoek said:

otto Waalkes is just plain stupid.....when i was living in Germany I was often amazed about how bad German comedy was, yet I have German friends that make me piss my pants from laughing.....

abierman said:

Really? For me it's exactly the other way round. Some German comedy is really great, some of course is totally not funny at all that goes without saying, but I never have talked to any German in my life who had a really good sense of humour or was funny and I have talked to many, many Germans in my life.

Serious said:

the Dutch have sent their best weapon against the Germans long ago, Rudi Carell (RIP).....the Germans laughed their asses off, they loved him.....which tells me enough about their sense of humor.
But yes, I have some real funny German friends.....

Now, Austrians.....

abierman said:

How many Austrians do you even know?

Rudi Carell was the lamest comedian ever . I never understood how anybody considered this guy funny.
But this clip showing him is soooo funny ! Too bad that the quality is not that good so you cannot see how pissed he looks .

I know quite some Austrians, young lady.....been coming to your country all my live. As a matter of fact, if you'd add up the time spent in Austria you'd easily come to 5 complete years or so..... And i was joking, I hold nothing against Austrians, I only dislike the money-greedy ones on the mountain!

I refuse to watch anything by Rudi Carell, he was a disgrace to the Dutch!

abierman said:

It's not a clip by him, but he is the one who is being ridiculed in that clip. Go and watch it now!
Ooops, I forgot about your trips to Austria .

Serious said:

ok, I'm not a big Raab-fan either, but that was funny! Anyone who took a piss on Carell was funny!

abierman said:

Let's celebrate that we finally agree on something !

Eric and Ramzy




With Jamel


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I remember when I was learning French in high school that our teacher showed us this clip of the comedic trio Les Inconnus, performing their new-wave/synth pop parody song "Isabelle a les yeux bleus".... this was a cult favorite in my French class.

purplehippieonthe1 said:

Holly Shit I had no idea someone would hear about Les Inconnus out of France!! , U've been lucky to have such a cool french teacher Still a cult favorite nowadays, their parodies continu to make people laugh, even the new generation.

Today Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Legitimus are notorious actors, they sometimes continu to play together but each one of'em got his own career so to speak.

Here another parody

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

carlos mencia is german