Americans Ranked World‘s ’Funniest’ Nationality
- Posted on June 8, 2011 at 9:55pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Who says the world doesn’t see the United States in a positive light?
In a recent international poll, America took the top spot for being the world’s funniest nationality (i.e. the best at making others laugh).
Badoo.com, a social network and dating web site, asked 30,000 respondents from 15 countries across the globe to name the funniest and the least funniest nationality. Who came in second, you ask? The Spanish. In third? The Italians.
Now, you’re probably wondering who took home the dishonor of being labeled the “least funny.” We’ll let Reuters tell you:
The voting for “least funny” nationality confirmed the view of American novelist Mark Twain that “a German joke is no laughing matter.”
The Germans won comfortably, ahead of the Russians and Turks.
TIME’s NewsFeed blog has more:
The British, who generally applaud themselves for their wit and sarcasm, did not fare well. They placed just seventh out of 15, behind the Brazilians, French and Mexicans. It is no consolation that they ranked fourth in the least funny category, just after the Turks.
“I‘m afraid that we don’t find some of the results very funny,” said Badoo’s Director of Marketing Lloyd Price, who is British.
Despite some ongoing claims that the U.S. is viewed overwhelmingly negatively among members of the international community, it’s refreshing to see some positive “coverage,” no? “Funniest” is a pretty nifty superlative, if you ask me.
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Comments (84)
Coosaguy
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:06amThey are not laughing with us, but at us.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:57amBingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:01amYeah, we are funny cause we are headed down the wrong path…wide is the path that leads to destruction…and people from other nations who know we are no longer number one are having a hay day of fun.
Now if we were on the narrow path, doing things right they might downgrade it to hateful comedy…or is that what they do anyhoo?
Who cares what they think…get back to the narrow path or lose it all.
Report Post »The Bagginator
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:52pmI’m sorry, but the picture of Stewart and Colbert on the Reuters web page totally negates the premise of the story. They completey embarrassed themselves at that event.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:48pmGetting old….
Report Post »First you forget names, then you forget faces.
Then you forget to pull your zipper up.
Then you forget to pull it down.
captkirk
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:44pmWhen you elect a bunch of clowns don’t be suprised when a circus breaks out.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:31pm@exrepub sorry It’s gonna suck for you come 2012.Hope you still have that sense of humor, your gonna need it!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:39pm@ ex sorry I read your your reply A$$ backwards!
Report Post »oldwmn
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:26pmtwo Irishmen walked by a bar , the french can tell you to go to blazes but it sounds pretty,
Report Post »the Italians make love with their singing operas, the Germans have good beer good schnitzel,great gummy bears candy, the Mexicans have cowboy boots with 3 feet toes, giggle, but hey we crazy yanks wowzer everyone has something to giggle at well almost but those who live in caves with their yaks LOL
HellPhish89
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:20pmgreat, now the germans are going to build a comedian robot thatll kill us all. thanks a lot guys.
Report Post »red1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:30pmBah, you beat me to it. That was the first thing I thought of too. I just watched that episode 2 night ago :)
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:19pmtold ya. the entire world thinks obama is a bad joke. on us.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:13pmOne reason we‘re funnier is we’re more religious and conservative. This makes us happier people, and happy people are funnier that depressed or angry people. Liberals are always angry about something. They always take themselves seriously but value little outside themselves. This makes them selfish and shallow and uptight. Their humor consist largely in ridiculing everybody who doesn’t think like them. The more consciously liberal a comedian is the less funny he is and the more his humor will consist of crude insults and abuse of others.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:28pmExcept that Hollywood is where most of the produced comedy springs from. And we know who rules hollywood, the LEFT!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 5:19amEven Hollywood, liberal as it is, still is part of the american culture and is more conservative than Europe. Just look at European Cinema.
Comedy may get produced in Hollywood, but the comedians don’t all grow up there. They grow up all over America.
Report Post »AZKate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:11pmA Preist, a Rabbi and a Baptist minister walk into a bar and say…we’re screwed.
Report Post »(Obama humor get it now, will be out of fashion in about 1 1/2 years)
wewantchillywilly
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:08pmA German once asked me, ‘Robin, why aren’t there any funny comeidans in Germany?’ And I said to him, ‘maybe because you killed all of them.’
-Robin Wiliams
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:55pma good sense of humor is a must these days. I still got my eyes on the prize. (get O’barf out of office) but if we fester in his crapology w/out some humor our heads will explode!
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:13pmI AGREE a good sense of humor is a must these days. Laugh it up now because 2012 will certainly be horrific to almost 1/2 of all Americans.
Report Post »Bill_Of_Rights
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:53pmI always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. (W.C. Fields)
Report Post »I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. (Groucho Marx)
Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. (George Burns)
I went to the psychiatrist, and he says “You’re crazy.” I tell him I want a second opinion. He says, “Okay, you’re ugly too!” (Rodney Dangerfield)
I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped my mother. (Henny Youngman)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Abraham Lincoln)
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.(Mark Twain)
I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.(Barack Obama)
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.(Barack Obama)
People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.(Barack Obama)
Rayblue
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:51pmA guy goes to the doctor and says; doc, I can’t shyt…doc says; here son, take this pill and you’ll be OK.
Report Post »Next day the guy goes back to the doc and says; doc, I still can’t shht. Doc gives him more meds and says; you’ll be OK.
Next day the guy goes back to the doc and says; doc, I still can’t shyyt. Please help me.
Doc looks at the guy and asks; son, who do you work for ? guy says; the private sector. Doc reaches into his pocket and pulls out a ten dollar bill and says; here son. go get something to eat…
caprica
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:44pmthey mean Obmaa and Hillary and Huma and her hot dog husband and the rest of the marixist clowns.
Report Post »stephenb.net
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:39pmIt is the way of my people
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:21pmAn elderly couple walk into the doctors office. He ask for a fecal sample. The man who cant hear very well looks to his wife who tells him The doctor wants your underwear
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:20pmWe’re so funny
Report Post »flattop
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:16pmThe Brits aren’t funny? Hmmmmm…
And now for something completely different.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:46pmThe Brits USED to be funny. The were kings of satire and dry and absurdist humor. But such humor comes from a level of sophistication/education and emotional restraint, things the Brits have forsaken. Now thier humor for the most part is crass or just plain stupid. Once the British stopped being respectable and repressed they had nothing good to lampoon. The last really funny British comedy was Father Ted, which ended its run ten years ago. The Office could be said to be funny, but I found it more agonizing to watch than enjoyable.
Good humor is a facet of a healthy society, one that can laugh at itself. Once a society starts its decline its sense of humor gets darker and fouler, substituting sarcasm and insults for satire and buffonery and it stops laughing at itself and instead laughs at its enemies.
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:02pmTry watching ‘The league of gentlemen’,Psychoville or ‘Phoenix nights’.Your‘e just out of touch that’s all.
Report Post »jumbles
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:05pmTry the ;Royle family’.And if you don‘t find ’The office‘ funny you just don’t get it.After all you call ‘Friends’ comedy.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:21pmYou’re right Jumbles, there are a few bright lights in British sketch humor, but I prefer That Mitchell and Webb Look to The League of Gentlemen, which, though funny, is also rather creepy. That’s also my problem with the Office. It’s too uncomfortable to be hilarious. Essential to commedy is watching the fool suffer for his foolishness. Yet the boss in the office rarely does. He makes others suffer because he is the boss. I get it. I just don’t think it is good comedy in the philosophical sense.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:31pmIf you could take the smuttiness out of Friends it would rank as a superior form of light comedy, greater than anything Britain has produced in decades. Frazier was by far superior as gentle satire of the Jeeves and Wodehouse variety. What Americans aren‘t as good at is absurd comedy which doesn’t require that you like any of the characters. The Brits are still good at this at times. They used to be be good at light comedy but seem to have lost the ability or willingness to create charcters that are likeable and funny.
Report Post »Bill_Of_Rights
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:12pmI don‘t care who you are that’s funny right there…
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:06pmDespite some ongoing claims that the U.S. is viewed overwhelmingly negatively among members of the international community, it’s refreshing to see some positive “coverage,” no? “Funniest” is a pretty nifty superlative, if you ask me.
ya, unless we are the punch line then not so funny huh
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:05pmSo this priest walks into a bar with a pig under his arm………..
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:07pmA grasshopper walks into a bar, barkeeper says “I got a drink named after you”. Grasshopper says, “You got a drink named Steve?” (rim shot)
Report Post »captquest
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:05pmWell, we do have clowns in the White House
Report Post »bry
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 7:59amWhich begs the question, are they laughng at us, or with us?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:42amOf course the rest of the world thinks Americans are fully, look at what we elect to office.
The clown in chief: BO.
The assistant clown in chief: Biden.
Ex speaker of the House: Nancy Polosi – - Pass the bill to find out what’s in it.
Harry Reid, U. S. Senate: Money for a Cowboy Poetry Festival.
Representative Weiner (D-NY): Twitter Photos.
Arnold (I’ll be back) Schwartznegger: Love child cover-up.
Presidential candidate Edwards: Love child cover-up.
President Bill Clinton: Monica Lewenski’s dallience.
There are many more. Oh, by the way,this is not only here in the USA but is happening all over the world as politicians with too much power, who have been in office far too long, get the idea they can do anything they like.
Right now, however, the rest of the world IS laughing AT US!
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:31pmHey we finally found something BHO is good at!!
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:02pmIt is because we have a Congressman named Wiener I bet.
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:09pmsmiling :>)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:47pmIt has been a pretty good couple of weeks for “blue” jokes. Most of our “humor” comes from our politicians …sadly we will have to live with the consequences these “clowns” are inacting on the citizens.
2012 the end of an ERROR!
TEA!
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:16amFrom what I saw in those photos, Weiner should be ashamed of him self because he isnt bying AMERICAN………his condoms have to be custom made in the Phillipines …..double short extra narrow
Report Post »ConservativeMomofFour
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:29am@republicorp lol….Easy joe pesci
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:02pmlol
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:17pmFunny , like a clown.
Report Post »Tear Em Up
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:17pmI don’t think the entire country was voted number 1. Just our politicians…..
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:24pmdepends on what is being laugh at / about.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:24pmFunny Hee Hee or Funny Ha Ha?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:38pmAmericans won’t be laughing in the next several months. Yet the world will continue to laugh us. NOBama 2012.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:49pmrepub, Im impressed. One of your favorite movies too huh
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:56pmFunny ha ha or Barney Frank funny?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:02pmJust look at the clowns we elect. Look at the insanely funny way we spend money. We start wars for a joke, just to get a laugh and of course, we have weiners.
The Chinese would have came in first, but they got the order wrong. The Germans were in the running until they realized they couldn’t engineer a good punchline.
The British were out when they said the Queens outfit to the wedding wasn’t a joke, it was serious.
The French just called the committee uncultured pigs.
The one competition we really had was Canada, but they just farted it away.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:23pmBO da Clown! ha ha
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:58pmYa they(countries) are laughing b/c we have a clown as a President that wants this country to fall apart!!!
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:00amDUH!!!! we basically invented comedy!!!!
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Oil_Robb
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:12amI can see that…..Barry has Ferengy ears…..nice lobes Muslim….how mush latinum did they set you back?
Report Post »Polycarp
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:38amRepubliCorp is a Goodfella! HAhaha great response HA!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:47amNo wonder, with politicians like Weiner and a president like Obama. And they don’t have to live here, so it’s funny to them………….
Report Post »Virgil_Lance
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:23amDid you hear about the progressive who was told about the hilarious humor of these two Brazilian comedians?
Report Post »He replied “wow, that’s a lot of comedians – how large of a number is a Brazilian?”
carnifex
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:09amWe are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.–Will Rogers
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:20am@REPUBLICORP
Report Post »Love the “Good Fellas” reference.
No1YaKnow
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:25amThey probably marvel at our ability to make sarcastic jokes in light of our bleak futures!
Report Post »*************************
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 3:30amSo is that laughing WITH obama, or laughing AT Obama?
Report Post »Oh, wait, Obama isn’t an American. It was a trick question.
Meyvn
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:23amThen that means all nationalities are the funniest because that’s who the U.S. is.
Report Post »red1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:02pmThey are telling the Germans that they aren’t funny?!? This isn’t going to end well. Now the Germans will probably build a funnybot that will destroy all humans. Oh wait…..nevermind, that was a Southpark episode.
Report Post »Nathaniel Horn
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:31pmYeah, they’re the funniest in DC and in the liberal propaganda machine. Just like a colonoscopy… :)
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:24pmFunny “strange” or funny “hah hah”?
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:45pmHeard that Stand up Comics and comedy clubs are unique to America. Don‘t know it it’s true, maybe someone with Worldly experience can confirm.
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