Comedy is of course the most difficult of genres to sell internationally. Something that Germans find uproariously funny leaves English speakers stony-faced – and vice-versa. Yet Oscar-winning German ...

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 ...

TBS has snagged German comedy-drama “Arthur’s Law” from its Turner stablemate TNT in Germany. The U.S. channel has taken the finished show subtitled in English, as well as the option to remake it ...

Movie comedy lacks a wild streak. We get funny films occasionally, and certainly there are performers who can get nutsy in short spurts—as Melissa McCarthy’s instant-classic White House press-briefing ...

Douglas will also produce the English remake of the 2014 German hit 'Head Full of Honey.' By Scott Roxborough Michael Douglas has confirmed he will star in, as well as produce, the English-language ...

For a long time, the words ”German” and ”comedy” haven`t gone together–not really since the great Ernst Lubitsch and his talented disciple, Billy Wilder, left Hitler`s Europe to bring their skills to ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - If anyone wants to know the German for "weasels covered in gravy", then comic Eddie Izzard, who unlike some of his countrymen is a lover of all things European, is the go-to man.

Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University Picture an expensively furnished dining room with a table set for over 30 people. Dr Felix Volkart and his wife ...

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 ...

TBS has snagged German comedy-drama “Arthur’s Law” from its Turner stablemate TNT in Germany. The U.S. channel has taken the finished show subtitled in English, as well as the option to remake it ...