laconicism isn't pedro's forte.  Long on style, penurious of facts.

eph221
laconicism 

I see you're still using your "Word Of The Day" calendar.
 
Well Done!

soens
... who's "they"?
 
 
 
So true tho. We (which includes at least 5/8ths of me) have the best humor out there. But like the Hindenburg it usually flies too high over their head to catch.
 
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Wait... Didn't the Hindenburg...  ...  ...  never mind. 

What tea do German futbol players drink?
 
PenalTea! 

That's a gem! Thank you, Bit, for sharing ( I first wrote "shearing". Could it be a Freudian slip...no, your hairy avatar is fine!)

 

 

I bet Strummy gave the video in the OP three thumbs up.

LongJohnBaldy
As a German speaker - polite cough, polishes nails on lapel - I can say that Germany has quite a number of very funny musical acts going back to the one and only Heinz Erhardt, a lyrical genius who was the greatest and most loved German comic after the war:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6488cUKcRUM
Linkes Auge Blau
Got a shiner on the left eye
Rechtes Auge Blau
Got a shiner on the right eye
Und dass alles wegen eine einzgen Frau
All cos of one woman
 
Etc..
Then he goes on to sing about how he just had a couple of beers with her before the hard stuff came out and:
Dann kommen Liquerchen
The booze came out..
Sie flüstern mir ins Örchen
She whispered in my ear
 
Anyway. her husband comes in the bar and gives poor Heinz something to remember.
The funniest line I ever heard in German to rhyme ear with a little liquor!
Ah.. It's brilliant. Google the whole song and google translate it.
Linkes Auge Blau - Heinz Erhardt
 
Perhaps his real successor was Otto. This guy was off the rails in the 70's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUft_Q4RQx8
 
Finally,  Helger Schneider - ahem.. a personal friend. Google translate his lyrics..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIEFqR374zk

I  had not heard of Heinz Erhardt before, but your addition of Otto Waalkes saved the day. He was performing when I was stationed in Germany in the early, early 70s (and bitflipper was playing a 30 minute version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of the towns I was stationed in!).
 
I could handle the southern dialects, but never got Frisian. Wow, could he talk FAST! A real oliphant (Ottiphants!) lover, he was.
 

bitflipper
Brilliant musical send-up of German culture, with some good-natured digs at Americans...and they say Germans have no sense of humor!
(Warning: contains bleepable language from a cute little girl)

BTW, having lived in Germany myself I can attest that they can indeed both take and make a joke. Irony and puns, those they're still figuring out, but other forms of humor are alive and well.

What a great take on Rammstein!
 
I just LOVE Jan Böhmermann's show on ZDF. Here's an example from last week. Skip to around 2:50 for the Biercademy video if the first part makes no sense. The video's in German, but needs little, if any, translation. Very funny!
 

I just recently discovered Jan Böhmermann, which is how I came across the music video posted at top. "Placenta de Coco" - you won't see that on late night TV here. I'm not sure Seth Meyers could even say "Berliner Sheisse" without getting bleeped.