You've reminded me of this - > The Brits often assume that Germans have no sense of humour. In truth, writes comedian Stewart Lee, it's a language problem. The

You've reminded me of this - > The Brits often assume that Germans have no sense of humour. In truth, writes comedian Stewart Lee, it's a language problem. The peculiarities of German sentence construction simply rule out the lazy set-ups that British comics rely on ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/23/germany.features11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/23/germany.featur...