A thousand years of German humour and an hour of Irish madness

Sunday I tried to reconnect with my "teutonic" roots. Unfortunately I chose stand-up comedy as the connecting device. Strangely enough there was a response but leaving the show called "a thousand years of german humour" I wondered whether my (and everyone else's) laughter was saying less about German stand-up comedy but more about British politeness. It wasn't actually funny, witty or skillfull but kind of blunt and alienating. The Scottish are good at joking and laughing about themselves but like so often, people who are open and willing to criticise themselves, will soon find that other groups pick up on their jokes and use them against them.
Yes Germans are still a great target for cheap jokes in the UK, but often there is a twist that makes the British look foolish for their old beliefs.
Here is Dylan Moran, an Irish Comedian and star of the TV Series, Black Books, on Germany.


He is said to be hanging around Edinburgh quite a bit too. Probably drunk.
Another maniac Irish man (there seem to be so many) is Jason Byrnes. I went to see his stand-up straight after the German one.
His topics were quite generic (men, women, sex, children), but the material was mad as Cats Under Mats Having Chats With Bats (like when he started talking about how he tried to convince his son of the tooth fairy by putting tiny footprints all over his face, while he was asleep).
The audience interaction was quite harsh at times but he brought it all to a great end by performing an Irish Dance with the people he had been mocking at the end.
Here he is in 2007:




Next up is concert by the frightened rabbits and the twilight sad.