I am in love with the British people. I love their way to talk, I love their Pub culture very much, I love their humor and I believe even they are not as straight as we are it is always a great time beeing over to the little cute island. Furthermore I believe the British music culture is absolutely fantastic. Definitely something Germans are not as good as the British are. Much respect to the older guy. I was expecting a different opinion on us.

We Germans take our humour very serious, it's no laughing matter. ☝🏻

"If they are incompetent, they are very incomepetent" ...so, we are competent even at being incompetent. Maybe the best description of Germany I ever heard :D

I think the problem with german humor is, that it loses all the fun when translating it because it is so well based on the language itself, that often times just make sense if you clearly understand the german language and know the connections and metaphors of the different words :D

Keep in mind that Mr. Bean and Monty Python e.g. are very popular in Germany so I guess there is common ground when it comes to humour. The elderly man at the end speaks German with a very good pronunciation by the way.

Germans are very competent. And if occasionally incompetent they are very incompetent....I like that. Seems about right.

I’m English and feel a kinship with the Germans due to our Anglo-Saxon heritage. It is a travesty what happened in the previous century.

Yah the Germans are a great bunch but so are you Brits :) All the the best from Denmark.

We love the British humour so much, a British sketch that was recorded for German television in 1963 belongs to our New Year's Eve tradition till this day.

We are brothers! As a Briton, I think the Germans are intelligent, stubborn, and we both have a lot in common. Cheers 🍻

Fun fact - germans and british are genetically the most similar peoples in Europe

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇩🇪 English and German people are brothers. We are a very similar people. We should have fought together WW1.

"They have humour, it‘s just very well hidden." That is the most british thing to say.😂 I love you Brits

Coming from an Anglo-German background I just love the Germans! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

Yes, our engineering is great i am proud to be a German. British and Germans are always top tier with inventions in history 🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧

Germans are very much like the English in values, history and humour.

I think of the German's as family who stayed in Saxony.. Blood is blood. 🇬🇧

As a German I really LOVE BRITISH ENGLISH (not American English!) because of its sound and pronounciation (I think that is one reason why I really love William Shakespeare and his plays!). England is one of my favourite countries and I would also like to visit Scotland. And I have some English relatives living in Nottingham...a cousin of my mother married a British gentleman and moved to England, I think this was BEFORE WW II started. Since several years her son and his wife nearly regularly visits us in Germany, in Northrhine-Westfalia. They (and also the other British relatives) are very nice and intelligent. But I am very disappointed that UK left EC. The British people are also our European brothers and sisters. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland...loving greetings from Germany 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Peace British brothers and sisters!:D Love from Germany. Let's build a bright future together and not against each other.

As a German I have lived in the UK for over 10 years and have grown really fond of British people. They are open, funny, educated, pragmatic, have the best sense of humour in the world, are very good at self-reflection/self-criticism and don't take themselves (or the rest of the world) too seriously. Genuinely nice people, I have made lots of friends in the UK and my stay there has definitely enriched my life and changed me for the better (I hope). I moved back to Germany because of Brexit - after the referendum I feel the mood in the general public had changed for the worse and I did not feel welcome any longer. Of course that was largely due to the media and NOT because of the people I knew personally. Every single Briton I have met (with the exception of my first landlord) has been absolutely fantastic and I still love GB to bits (just not their government).

When this old gentlemen said "they are generally very competent" I thought to myself: Der gute Mann hat noch nie einen Antrag auf einer deutschen Behörde gestellt.

As a German I am sad that all british forces have left Germany. After WWII british soldiers have treated the Germans always in a fair way.

The thing about sarcasm is that it is used on a different level of intimacy here, at least in my opinion. We suck at comedy, no question, however we love satire and sarcasm. From my personal experience I would say our humour is quite a lot drier and darker than the English, however we don't joke around with strangers unless we want to start a fight, so the British "disrespect" of our personal space can rub people the wrong way here. However once you are on first name basis there is no holding back in mockery and Schadenfreude. Oh and we tend to do it the opposite way of the English and over exaggerate rather than understate stuff. So e.g. a common reaction for someone dropping a tool at work would be "Lass liegen, ist kaputt." - "Leave it on the ground, its broken." Or an encouragement to throw it harder next time so that the obvious intent of breaking the floor tile may at last be accomplished.

I don’t think many foreigners watch German satire/irony in transmissions like ‘Die Anstalt’ as you would need a high level of language skills and knowledge of the political landscape.

they are saxons, no more words needed

I love England and their people so much🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿I sometimes make jokes bout them but when Americans start making fun of them I'm defending them with everything I got. we Europeans need to help each other out after all. gettings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We share the most similar DNA, culture and language ❤🇩🇪

As a Englishman I love Germany and respect the German people as they generally have class and standards. I was passing through Cologne for one night and stopped in a bar for a beer on my own and made some great friends with the regulars and will never forget their kindness, hospitality and humour. There is definitely a cultural bond somewhere - probably from the German tribes who emigrated to Britain all that time ago. Even veterans from both world wars have said this.

8:43 OK that dude nailed it. Not only was the pronunciation nearly spot on. He also used surprisingly complicated words.

The elderly man was so sweet and his chosen words to speak a German sentence was excellent!

Old joke: what´s the difference between an Englishman and a German? The Englishman is too polite to be honest and the German is too honest to be polite. 😉

Technically Germans and the English people were from the same Saxon blood.They were brothers one speaking Germans and the other english.They were both Germanic tribe and English language has German roots

I love british humour, the language, the football history, many of your great actors and especially the music 🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧!

A lot of germans love the brits and their humour. I don't understand that the whole world thinks we germans have no humour. We love black humour.

Love that elderly gentlemen, what a nice guy. And his german is almost perfect.

German Humour: Dry and or Dad jokes, Politics, word play, satire, reaccount of funny encounters/ stories, "Deine Mutter Witze" and potty humour. A combination of multiple or all of these.

I was born in Germany to English parents, grew up with both languages and speak both fluently. When it comes to humour, language is everything. How is an Englishman supposed to find someone like Otto Waalkes funny, even though he is absolutely hilarious. How is a German supposed to laugh at a Jethro or Billy Conolly? Otherwise, the Germans and English are not natural enemies and we have far more similarities than differences.

That old man is so cool and charming!!

I loved the time I spent in England. My sweet Wimpey home in Manningtree. My job in Harwich. The food 😋 the pubs, lager and lime, salt and vinegar crisps, fish & chips, the clothing, make up, furniture,... But most of all the British politeness and their sense of humour. And when I will have enough money I'll be back and visit all the places once again 🥰

It is our Saxon blood! We are very similar genetically and culturally.

This idea about Germans not having a sense of humour and not getting understatement is entirely due to the English people who were interviewed not knowing any German, or not well enough to understand German humour. Germans have an extremely dry sense of humour, a lot of it is absolutely deadpan, and a lot of it rests on puns in German that do not translate. I've known squaddies who lived in Germany for years and very few of them got past more than rudimentary German. For the record, I am from the UK and I always found Fawlty Towers excrutiatingly UNnfunny back in the 1970s when it was first aired. And to be pushing Germans to watch the "Don't mention the war" episode in this day and age is just brattish English behaviour. Germans of this generation don't get it because the war gets mentioned all the time in Germany.

We Germans and the British people are real OGs in the world history. That says enough. Nevermind if bad or good, we both nations did many weird things in the past :D

We share the same DNA - I love the Germans.

i love how the elderly man just casually remembered the phrase: “mEiNe dEuTsChKeNtNiSsE sInD eTwAs eInGeRoStEt” like that’s so impressive. Istg that’s better and more academic German than most of the Germans would speak 💀

That old fella impressed me by his excellent German. The term "ein bischen eingerostet" in context with language is not often used by foreigners. Greetings from Nuremberg.

I see Germans as our brothers. We are both Anglo-Saxons and that’s what’s connects us. We are very similar and we both speak similar languages in terms of certain words. We should get closer with the Germans rather than the U.S because we are so similar. I am going to Berlin in October this year and I can’t wait. Cheers to our Germanic brothers at the homeland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🍻🇩🇪

English and Germans are a perfect match... No mentality fits so well in Europe... Anglosaxons meet Saxons.... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤗❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

that very old guy, what a beautiful soul

I’m always surprised when Brits attest Germans a lack of humor, since a lot of us are infatuated with British comedy. From Python to Mitchell and Webb or Ricky Gervais, I, like many others, am regularly left in tears. British humor is nunanced and self-depreciating with an oftentimes rather pessimistic / nihilistic outlook on life, which resonates a lot with the average German. Irony and sarcasm are prevalent and it can get downright dark, all of which is widespread in our daily lives as well (at least where I live). From my experience, British and German attitudes in general don’t seem to differ all too much and I found making friends rather easy.

My English husband loves Germany. Once in Hamburg he was waiting for me, while I was in baby's changing room. I came out and he was deep in conversation with a old German man. He says there is like a brotherhood with Germans

Wonderful video! Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧

Wow, this really got me thinking about german humor :D I don't think I will be the first person to mention these names, but take Loriot, Helge Schneider and Hape Kerkeling for example. They are all entirely different but all of them make fun of german mannerisms and society. German humor is about making fun of ourselves and it makes total sense that other people won't pick up our jokes. Try translating lyrics by die Ärzte without losing the sarcastic (yes sarcastic) humor - "Junge" or "Lasse redn" for example. Or take a look at the tv series "der Tatortreiniger" and "Mord mit Aussicht". The reason why these two shows are so iconic are because of the typical northern and west german small town mannerisms. I'm so happy to see that so many of the people you interviewed view us so positiv

That man at 2:12 is so nice and sweet. I wish him all the best. Greetings from Hamburg!

Really love this video. I'm German who lived in London for 11 years and I totally agree: Germans and Brits are very similar in many ways but especially when it comes to making business.

Absolutely in love with that old man. "Mein Deutsch ist ein bisschen eingerostet." Who knows what he sees in his life. He's so adorable and calm. Just love from Germany to this man.

I always get perfectly along with british folks. In my experience they are really similar to us. Same with Scandinavians. There is no barrier, you can directly get in Touch, have some beers and laugh your Asses off 👍

I do think the German humor is more direct and to the point, as germans generally more to the point. For me the most German humorist is Loriot. Watch "Papa ante Portas", my wife is from Russia and she loves this movie. Mose Germans i know love british humor which is known as more dark and ironic as the german humor. I personally do love Black Adder, Fry and Lory, Yes Minister, Monty Phyton and so on. A big shut out to the widespread Charakter of our Europe's People

Brits are so gentle and polite. ❤❤❤❤

Viel Glück für Deinen tollen Kanal. Ich habe ihn zufällig vorgeschlagen bekommen. Du hast eine sehr nette Art, mit Leuten zu sprechen. 🤩 Hab eine schöne Zeit bei uns. 👍🏻

I love the Brits, I love the Germans

My town in Scotland is paired with another in Germany, and during our 2nd year of High school their second year equivalents in Germany had a class exodus to Scotland. They stayed local and explored during the evenings and mornings, popping in to study with us in the afternoon. We all got buddied with a German and hit it off. The excitement and pleasure of speaking about our lives and countries was something to remember. I found i had shared a lot in common with my buddy, liking the pokemon franchise and having liked dinosaurs as a kid. And I learned that despite being on a larger area basis, they shared a similar style of schooling to ours where its on larger school for an area all closest were obligated to attend when of age. It baffled me then that they had some people travelling multiple hours for high-school as I was simply 30 minutes walk from mine, and the farthest student was an hour and a half out. Even now I travel half the country to get to Uni and its shorter than some of their travel times, likely due to the trains here being faster than school busses with more direct routes. I still have 2 sets of playing cards that are German from him and his Instagram account. We haven't spoken in about 5 years i reckon now, but I still one day plan on learning more of the language and returning the gesture of coming over here just to see our land and culture.

Im german and i always thought of the brits as kind of the older, cooler brother of us :)

As an Englishman, I can say I love the Germans. I'm from the north of England and I find the humour of my German friends is actually very similar to ours, dark and dry. I think we are very similar characters and have much more in common with each other than we realise. Afterall, where did the the Saxons come from originally?

I think that most of German comedians and jokes are based on sarcasm so I think it’s not true at all. It’s just hard to get sarcasm if it’s an other language.

A normal German here: About sausages: You only eat "Weiswurst" without skin. The rest of the sausages you never peel (at least what I can tell from my region in Baden-Württemberg). In regards to jokes I think this is more of an language barrier. The direct jokes which work in German language often or mostly do not work while being translated into English. The same the other way around. So it only works if the respectively German either speaks kinda almost nativ English or a English guy almost nativ German.

My husband has a German mother, we lived in Germany for 10 years, and my children were born there. Some of my most cherished memories are of my days living in Germany. 😘

jürgen klopp is the best proof that the germans have a sense of humor :)

After all, the Angels and Sachsen were German. So we're the Friesen and so on.

To really understand the humour of another culture, you have to be immeresed to the other culture as well. Otherwise it's not really funny. Sarcasm, exaggeration, understatement, puns, irony, jokes etc. therefore often don't work in the other language/culture. Some recognise this, others consider the other people to be humourless (applies for Germans aswell as for Brits).

In the UK people make jokes all the time in every situation but in the US and Germany I found that it leads to a lot of blank looks - similarly in South Africa. All my jokes stopped working when I went to university in Cape Town. I think the type of humor is different up to a point but there's also the amount by which people use it. In a lot of company in the UK you cannot say anything remotely serious without being mocked. Seriousness is looked down upon. Humour is also used to self-deprecate so you can disarm other people's envy. There's a difference between Irish and English humour too for example and I find it harder to describe but given that I'm 1/2 Irish I'm not surprised that I enjoy the Irish way of thinking about humour.

My wife and I have had several river cruise holidays on the Rhine, Main and Danube. (We are Brits.) I absolutely loved our time in Germany. The countryside is beautiful and everywhere is so neat and clean (unlike too much of the UK). I thought leaving the EU was an incredibly stupid thing for us to do.

The old gentleman is such a sweatheart. what a lovely person.

I'm British, and I'm a fan of the German industrial metal band Rammstein. They're the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Germany - there are only two categories of German people I know, namely those to whom I have mentioned Rammstein at least once, and those to whom I will. I've also learned a bit about how many Germans view Rammstein. Turns out they're actually quite a controversial band, even in Germany. Ich spreche ein Wenig Deutsch, doch ich habe das Meiste gelernt von Rammstein! 🇩🇪🎸

As German I love British people - not only the accent and politeness :-D I talk more English with Brits than German with my fellow Germans, so I think that says a word about two cultures living close to each other. However, Brits humor is next level! But please don't confuse southern Germans with northern Germans, because latter are cultural less beer oriented. Despite we have beer breweries in both directions. :-D I have so many Brits as friends! Love you! :D Oh and keep in mind, Germany got worse in Engineering, China ramped up now, especially in Reverse Engineering copy pasta and IT, a weak point of Germany - never ask a German about digital Systems! ;P If you visit northern Germany or live there it is a bit more cold (emotionally) than in south Germany. :D /E: Joke about WW3: Well if you invade Russia, bring winter clothing, hope this time we don't do that mistake again like in WW2.... :kek:

Absolutely floored at the authenticity and wholesomeness in this video. Such beautiful souls you found to interview. I'm a newcomer to your channel, this is the only video I have seen but just off this alone, you have won over another subscriber my good sir - Bravo! P.S. That elderly gentleman was so sweet, made me tear up at the end.

germans are always on time - me laughing in swiss when i think about the german train system.

Wow amazing video wunderbar lol. Okay, here is what I think of Germans: Extremely smart people, extremely professional, the best engineers and dentist. Also I’ve been told that German language is absolutely beautiful as you have a word for everything and a Meaning for everything. I’ve got a lot of time for Germans. A big Hello to Frankfurt and to Frankfurt FC. Lots of love to Frankfurt. My mum was living in Frankfurt long before I was born. 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🇩🇪 ❤️🇩🇪❤️🇩🇪

Not a very heartwarming comment, but since it seems there always is a big elephant in the room for Engilsh folks: Hitler wanted to make peace and even form an alliance with Britain so badly in the 1930s, because in his eyes they were as Aryan as the Germans and he saw them as a brother nation - unlike the French.

The old man was so adorable 🥺 and his german was good even after some time

I am from germany and I like the british humor better. Liked Monthy Python as a kid, and love them even more now. Once I started to understand the scottish and irish the comedy world opened up. I got some deep rooted sarcasm in me that finds itself expressed better in british humor. The Coupling and The IT Crowd(worked exactly in that position at that time), Little Britain are top shelf humor in my book. The point about silly vs ironic was true for the most part of the last 50 years and so spot on - Hallervorden vs. Monthy Python e.g.. We got some now who do irony quite good, like Böhmermann, Till Reiners or Hazel Brugger.

It's true. English and Germans are similar a lot. When I am in the UK I feel like staying in kind of parallel universum. It's the same a lot but different in so many details. So it's simular but different in one. By the way. I love the UK and i am so sorry that they left the EU. With greetings from Germany

great video! the old man was lovely!

They are all so sweet! I want to hug them all!

As a German I understand you pretty well 👍 The elderly gentleman reminded me a lot at my grandpa who passed away this year. Love you brits 🤞

As I always say, people around the world are all similar. I once was in Ireland for bit and even on the same day I arrived I realized that these people have just the same problems as everyone else in the world. The students were complaining about how much homework they have, the adults were upset, because of their politicians and then there was this one friendly bus driver telling me a story about his whole life. I did get off the bus a few stations too late, because I didn't want to interrupt him ^^

Great Video thanks I wished there were more people like you, open for other cultures languages people and asking curiously about differences without judging them. The world would be a better and more peaceful place

I worked for a German film company for 8 years in Cornwall, and got to know some really famous German film actors that have become friends, my crew i worked for were amazing, they love the english, got to admit sarcasm was wasted a little sometimes, but they are so so nice and humble

Honestly, understanding the humour in different languages and cultures, requires a high skill in that language and lot of background knowledge. Speaking another language and "understanding" is a big difference. I've given up to watch movies dubbed in German, because jokes (well, not only jokes)lose their meaning. So I think that is also the reason why it seems like the humour isn't understood. But after watching that vid, I was glad to see that you had very polite interview partners. Well, the " Weißwurst" part made it in there, which for a non Bavarian is like the "stereotype" thing. But again, nice interview partners.

seeing this, my heart is breaking a little bit... I love Britain and British people so much, have been to England, Scotland and Wales multiple times, but the recent politics abd general vibes I am getting from my favourite (ex-) European neighours are honestly so sad and concerning. Why are you separating from us? We need to stand together now.. more than ever before :(

Having lived in Germany for 5 years as a member of the forces and worked with many Germans over the years it is a complete mystery to me how we ever ended up on opposite sides in two major wars in the 20th Century. We have so much in common.

I am so glad that others of different generations share the understanding that we were always very similar, and animosity is only for the less well intentioned in our society. Great video. Thank you.

I live a couple miles from St.Albans, and this made me smile straight away

9:03 what a precious old men. His laugh is full of life

Deutsche und Briten sind sich sehr ähnlich

Amazing video, very respectful people, so lovely and adorable, especially that cute older man. It's not so easy to translate humour, now the younger generation is growing up with more opportunities to learn and speak English, so now they understand eachother a lot more. But British humour was definitely something you could find in Germany. Rowan Atkinson, Monty Python - John Cleese and Faulty towers, Benny Hill. Some TV shows were inspired by British TV shows The German show, "Ein Herz und eine Seele" from the 70s found his inspiration in BBC show, "Till death us do part"

I love love love the British accent so much, as a German! Or should I say the British colour of language? Anyways, can't get enough of it. To be honest, in my opinion French is the most beautiful language on the planet. But No. 2 on my list is British English, definitely! Thanks for another great video. I had no idea there are Britains who have any positve opinion of/about/on Germans (I will never understand the correct use of English prepositions), but it feels good to hear those people's statements! Sorry for my bad English, your German is way better :-)

German humour is not that bad ;-) Take a look at "Loriot" films and sketches. They're hillarious. And of cause we like the english humour. I LOVE Monty Python ;-)

Cool interviews, Much Respect and love to the british People!

I know someone , German, who when working at a large internationally staffed company in Germany always used to lunch with the Brits ,in the company eating area, who were always the 'noisy table' , as she was always had an 'English' sense of humour. Even her mum didn't understand it. She got transferred to the UK in the end which is how I met her. Sadly for us, she is now back in Stuttgart.

I'm German, and I used to study English at university, both the language as well as Cultural Studies, because I'm so in love with the language and all its British dialects, as well as their part of history. Also, if there are people in Europe who really do get English humour, it's the Germans, especially the understatement part. All the love from Germany! ❤