A new book about humor under the Nazis gives some interesting insights into life in the Third Reich and breaks yet another taboo in Germany's treatment of its history.
Communism is the only political system to have created its own international brand of comedy. The standard interpretation is that communist jokes were a form of resistance. But they were also a safety valve for the regimes and jokes were told by the ruler
The German language provides fully functional clarity. English humour thrives on confusion. (The inexcusability of linguistic superiority...and this was in the Guardian)