looney_tunes Moderator 19 year member
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You can see the "German" text of the joke at this link. As noted there, it is not actually in German (some words are only German-sounding), and has no meaningful English translation. In "German", it reads "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
In it, they say Hitler "just could not match" the humour, demonstrated by him telling the dog's nose joke (in English subtitles). The "German" words to the funniest joke, used to lethal effect by the British are, as described above, nonsensical gibberish.
The Wikipedia entry for this joke also confirms that it is nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
In the sketch, the Nazi attempt at their own V-joke weapon was the old chestnut: "There were zwie peanuts walking down the strasse, and one was assaulted (a salted) peanut."
If you try to input the "German" into Google Translate to get a version of it, it yields only links to this joke.
Response last updated by gtho4 on Sep 05 2024.
Aug 18 2015, 11:36 PM
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