Question by fancypantsy:
What type of humor would French ppl most appreciate?
am going to Paris March 2010, and will learn a little more French of course before we go there. I'd like to learn a few jokes in French to crack a few up {possibly}. Would they prefer political jokes? And what type of humor do they like the least? Should I stay away from "light" jokes referring to Queen Elizabeth or would they just roll over loving it?
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Answer by Cabal
whoopee, this is the most dangerous minefield of all. Humour, French humour, has nothing to do with British or American humour. We love puns, but based on words with multiple meanings and not with similar sounds (ie, the same sentence has two totally different meanings). We love jokes but many English jokes do not make us laugh because we do not have the same sense of humour. As for political jokes, you have to understand all the references to laugh, and unless you joke about our own politicians we won't understand the joke.
This site explains it well:
http://www.understandfrance.org/French/Attitudes3.html#ancre1726094
* "I believe that nothing separates people more than their sense of humour" (Theodore Zeldin)
* As quoted by Hill (quoting Gruner), the French value Wit (intellectual, hostile, aggressive, sarcastic) as opposed to anglo-saxon Humour (emotional, affectionate, gentle, kindly, genial)
* Therefore, the French sense of humour is more oriented toward others than themselves, less nonsensical than English humour, more cruel. It is never self-deprecating : it is combative, fueled by ridicule and mockery and it needs a target.
* The French are great teases, which contribute (for naive foreigners) to their reputation of being rude
* A frequent form of humor is to exagerate excessively a statement to illustrate its falsehood : if you are too literal, you just think it is silly
* The French love very earthy jokes about sex and bodily functions ; you can hear them in the most unexpected (for Americans) contexts, like at a dinner table with well-educated people. Coluche, whose jokes were literally impossible to translate, was immensely popular.
* Because their language is so important for them, they love puns, which are hard to follow unless you speak very good French.
* The most frequent " ethnic jokes " in France are jokes about Belgians (supposed to be stupid), or about Southerners (supposed to be lazy, in "Marius et Olive" or Corsican stories) or Auvergnats (supposed to be cheap)
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