Johan Strauss II's masterwork, which will be performed Jan. 16 and 18 by the Cedar Rapids Opera with Orchestra Iowa at the ...

The comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family with a German delicatessen empire took top prize for best series at the French television festival. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Zweiflers ...

There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is the World War II era. That's when the Nazis sent Jewish entertainers to the death camps. And many non-Jewish German comedians ...

German writer-director Frédéric Hambalek surprised everyone this year at the Berlinale with a comedy in Competition that ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- He might be persona non grata in Kazakhstan, but Borat, the crazed Central Asian TV reporter created by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, is a hero to the German comedy scene. By ...

Ze famous German humour is a serious business. And no one understood this better than Count Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl von Bülow, known to generations of Germans simply as Loriot. For half a ...

Go for Zucker: Comedy. Starring Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner. Directed by Dani Levy. (In German with English subtitles. Not rated. 95 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Comedians long ago realized ...

Flula Borg, Vir Das, Bassem Youssef, and Gad Elmaleh. Photo: Vulture and Getty Images Flula Borg, Vir Das, Bassem Youssef, and Gad Elmaleh. Photo: Vulture and Getty Images Taking the stage and sharing ...

Germany and comedy have not been synonymous, to say the least, since World War II. But, now, German comedy is making a comeback. There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is ...