Cross Cultural Humour with Henning Wehn - Language of Comedy #4

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How comedians play with cultural stereotypes as a source of humour, and how this type of humour challenges understandings of cultural identity. Featuring British-based German comedian Henning Wehn giving examples of upending stereotypes and challenging prejudices in his comedy.
(Part 4 of 6)
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@cryptomonkey6142 2 года назад

Love Henning, not only is he funny but you definitely get the feeling that away from stage and screen he's probably a genuinely nice and sincere guy.

@matthewstephens8630 2 года назад

Herr Wehn, ist mein Lieblingsdeutscher mit Cockney-Akzent. 😆

@Katibotar33 2 года назад

He's adorable, friendly, polite and modest :)

@ajrwilde14 2 года назад

@@Katibotar33 how do you know?

@autumnmatthews3179 Год назад

@@ajrwilde14 How do you not know?

@tastewithjase Год назад

Henning is massively under appreciated. Clever funny man

@returnoftheredeye Год назад

Very engaging to hear Henning speak about the mechanics of comedy like this.

@Gav_Rez Год назад

I admire you Henning, your English is perfect and your grasp of us is better, I especially love the "second language" Joke. Thank you.

@aldozilli1293 3 года назад

I love this guy, considering English is not his first language his understanding of the little things like "gubbins" and his ability to connect with UK culture is amazing. I love the fact he basically turns on its head what a lot of closeminded Brits think in that Germans have no sense of humour.

@samjoshi1812 3 года назад

Germans have humour but he explains it here - humour is not intrinsic to German culture, whereas it is for the UK

@aldozilli1293 3 года назад

@@samjoshi1812 I've lived in several countries, everyone has humour, we are all humans after all

@henningbartels6245 3 года назад

@@samjoshi1812 , I'm a German and I don't get what "intrinsic" means in reference to humor. And one thing is obvious in Germany: humor and jokes are regarded as a rather private matter and no part of an official or public business. That is misleading for foreigners coming to Germany: as a stranger no-one would start a conversation there with a joke ... this would be considered akward in some situations even inpolite. After some talk or a pint the situation might change.

@samjoshi1812 3 года назад

@@henningbartels6245 In the uk humour is synonymous with public life and discourse, whereas in germany they are seperate

@mehitabel1290 2 года назад

A lot of his jokes go over the head of the average British Herbert, though.

@musicloverlondon6070 Год назад

Henning's comments on the social importance of humour are fascinating and show the value of hearing the objective impressions of a foreigner. He is so insightful and always entertaining to listen to. I hope he stays in the UK permanently. 👏

@mdenouden3y6 10 лет назад

Henning wehn My favourite brittish german comedian :)

@ginemginem 10 лет назад

Isn't he a German British comedian?

@sweiland75 9 лет назад

ginemginem I didn't know Germany annexed Britain ;)

@LGD3 9 лет назад

sweiland75 He's a British comedian in the same way as Dara O Briain, or Reginal D Hunter are.

5 лет назад

LGD3, I love how you mention Dara in a list of tree comedians. :D

@aldozilli1293 3 года назад

@SavageArfad oh is Dara supposed to be, errhhhh, funny?

@hannecatton2179 6 лет назад

Gotta love him.

@tonyclifton265 3 года назад

Henning ist der Hammer!

@SuperNoX86 4 года назад

I can't speak German, but Henning Wehn is one of my favourite comedians. He is hilarious. Sorry Germany, but he's ours now lol.

@herrneumrich6876 3 года назад

@ekim andersom unfortunately. 😅

@Jahu-qs2us 3 года назад

"Ze spy has been successfully planted in ze british population. Zey don't suspect a thing. What a brilliant plan, Klaus"

@sigmund_pseud030 3 года назад

@@Jahu-qs2us Zey don't suspect a zing*

@henningbartels6245 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure: (almost) noone knows him in Germany.

@sigmund_pseud030 3 года назад

@@henningbartels6245 noone does tho

@SqueakyWeasel247 10 месяцев назад

I've lived in Germany since Henning left … The Hoff is a God here!

@heliotropezzz333 5 дней назад

I think the difference between German and English humour is that Henning can say critical things about the Brits and they laugh and love him for it. I can't imagine a Brit doing the same to Germans in Germany and getting the same reception.

@londonspade5896 Год назад

If there were more than 1 famous German-British comedian, we'd call you something else m8, but rest assured we love you

@ginibelle1416 Год назад

I love this man

@downy8586 Год назад

He always makes me laugh,,,,

@Jaydcoke 4 года назад

Is the best comedian in Britain a German?

@lemmyraisehell.8669 4 года назад

Totally agree. Always cheers me up.

@ellied.violet7372 2 года назад

Yes.

@532bluepeter1 2 года назад

Probably

@archiebald4717 2 года назад

No, it's Gervais.

@mickavoidant4780 2 года назад

He's one of the best, yes.

@expressoevangelism80 Год назад

If what you say about the German comedian doesn’t swear, I am sold. Having spent a lot of money on tickets to listen to Jack Dee and Paul Merton to discover that every alternative word was f***, I was rather fed up to think that half of the money I had paid was for that, and that wasn’t funny in any way, consequently I felt that I had been swindled.

@AwesomeMetalBands 4 года назад

A*W*E*S*O*M*E Absolute genius,

@CynicalScientist261 2 года назад

I do love Henning

@geoffballe8766 Год назад

Your a good man Henning

@JACKnJESUS Год назад

He has a keen insight.

@jakequentin6480 Год назад

Great to see the Ambassador flying the flag again. That 'German Bloke', but surely by now Our German Bloke!

@JFinnerud 4 года назад

A German joke is no laughing matter

@pizzaboy3946 2 года назад

You vill laugh at ze joke.

@YanisKyr 9 лет назад

the closing sound effect IS SO F*** LOUD!

@westy1637 3 года назад

Thanks for the heads up

@Jonners97 Год назад

Nope Henning, you gave the best answer I've heard on Question Time, that's how I think of you.

@4foksakes221 8 лет назад

That forehead. He looks like a vampire from Buffy/Angel series

@laania 8 лет назад

+4 Fok Sakes Oh my God you're right, he's Luke from season one!

@barnabyg6808 8 лет назад

+laania Raw meat!

@davew4998 4 года назад

Our common reference point is that well, you started it....

@hassmichael7246 3 года назад

😂

@martintaper7997 3 года назад

Well no, Britain declared war on Germany.

@tonycasey3183 Год назад

@@martintaper7997 This is getting a bit Fawlty Towers now

@martintaper7997 Год назад

@@tonycasey3183 Whatever you do Tony, don't mention it again; I don't think anyone noticed that time!

@PsyMongazoid Год назад

Possibly the most popular German bloke to have graced these shores anyway.

@davidfinding7960 Год назад

Yup, just that German bloke, but he can make you laugh😂

@cavendish009 Год назад

Henning does not understand that to have a sense of humour is usually connected to someone who can cope with anything that is thrown at them !!! Humour gets us out of a big hole !!!! and shared humour connects us ??

@jamesmaher488 3 года назад

I like that German bloke 🥸

@angelaknowles8189 5 лет назад

2002 and we just get to know you NOW, thats so wrong you are a geniues

@philipbond9896 4 года назад

he is right to much swearing ,and if the common reference point were only swearing is funny .then this would be a good indication as to where humanity is going ..I remember tommy cooper and the goons monty python , rick mayall . rowan atkiinson . all were funny very funny and no swearing .

@mehitabel1290 2 года назад

There seems to be a notion that if you add the word "f*cking" to a punchline, it makes it twenty times funnier. It doesn't.

@troystaunton254 Год назад

Swearing can improve a joke. But like anything else, if you say F or C 100 times the 100th time it’s just a word. It’s a la w of diminishing returns, it’s like women who joke about their periods. The first one was funny, the rest not so much.

@MrDaiseymay Месяц назад

HENNING---YOU ARE RFFERED TO AS ''THAT GERMAN BLOKE '', BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ONLY A RARITY, YOU ARE BLOODY FUNNY. QUESTION--DO GERMANS MAKE JOKES ABOUT WW2, LIKE THE BRIT'S DO ?

@lordkorner 2 года назад

Irish never tire of making fun of the English

@annsmith9196 Год назад

Love Henning! He is brilliant. I love British humour but I also don't understand the need they have to use so much swearing and the focus so many of them have with the male sex organs and the drawing of said organs. Here in Canada that is left to 13 year old boys.

@chrisarcher6972 9 месяцев назад

That German bloke's quite amusing, nicht wahr?

@Trillock-hy1cf 3 года назад

stupid zooming made me quit.

@TheKingkeano 4 года назад

It's a shame he has to dumb his jokes down for the English.

@guantou2520 2 года назад

He was born in the wrong country

@trueaussie9230 Год назад

No. He needs to have the 'outsider's view' of Britain to make his humour work.

@paulj6662 5 лет назад

Hasslehoff; German much?

@quentinlynch 9 лет назад

For the first one or two minutes I thought he would really say something interesting and elaborate about cross cultural humour, but then he simply returned to his (definitely funny but by now also) old stereotypical jokes.

@thomaskingschillerlein7843 3 года назад

What the f is gubbins?

@_ZUNG_ 2 года назад

Slang for internal parts or the working parts of something

@532bluepeter1 2 года назад

Gubbins derives from a man by the name of Gubbins( I forget his rank) who worked in MI-9 ( yes really) designing gadgets to aid in the escape and exfiltration of allied service personnel from occupied territory. It has just come to mean gadgetry or internal workings.

@_ZUNG_ 2 года назад

@@532bluepeter1 now this i did not know, thanks!

@buyrainbowstuff1130 9 лет назад

Starting to get a bit repetitive

@naitranaitra8196 6 лет назад

we all wanted to think he was witty, but he is really reading from a sheet :'(

@mikejones-go8vz 5 лет назад

Buy Rainbow Stuff the thing is, RU-vid spoils it for us, I have heard every joke from my favourite comedians, they can’t do new stuff every time they perform, not everyone goes to the same shows so they have to repeat their work

@pizzaboy3946 2 года назад

As Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown are two of the worst leaders in history, perhaps having a sense of humor might be a prerequisite to being a good leader?

@Ben-nr2rm 2 года назад

Indeed. The woman who has run the most powerful country in Europe for 15 years and the man who even the Americans admit staved off the worst of the financial crisis with his actions...

@pizzaboy3946 2 года назад

@@Ben-nr2rm Yes, the woman who opens the borders to millions of bogus asylum seekers who proceeded to rape the county's citizens (eg Cologne), cause terrorist acts and the Labour prime minister who left the country with "no more money left" as well as uncontrolled and unsustainable immigration.

@raymondlaurence980 Год назад

I think you worte that, when Jonson was leader? Oh, it was a joke...ha ha

@johnbunyan5834 Год назад

@@Ben-nr2rm Brown did what needed to be done by any Chancellor , after advice from the Bank of England. He propped our British banks with Government money. But he ruined company pension schemes, sold a load of our gold at a a stupid price, and did not abolish boom and bust, as he claimed. His one good feature was to keep us out of the Euro : and only because of his indecision.

@haeuptlingaberja4927 Год назад

But most of the reference points are shared. In the song "Mir Kaufd Nix" from the hilariously irreverent Swabian band Schwoissfuass, we hear about the "Soifa, Dreck ond Botzlamba" that door to door salesmen peddle, but that is also a wider reference to the bullsh*r that politicians are peddling. This is surely something that the poor Brits suffering under Tory misrule can identify with...

@Phunker1 Год назад

We don't swear in Germany? Du tickst doch nicht ganz sauber.

@vic9543 Год назад

Of course we don't, dammit!

@paulworthington8666 Год назад

Merkel never had to tell a joke, because she is a joke. In current German politics, establishment politicians are the embodiment of unintentional humour. Now that really is clever. Not like our geniuses in Westminster, of course.