The Germans are the world's least funny people. We know this because Badoo.com, which claims to be the world's largest Internet social network, asked 30,000 people in 15 countries which people they ...

Americans can't take a joke, according to a French government warning we shall take ridiculously seriously. Thanks to Bloomberg Business' Gregory Viscusi we now have a working knowledge of some of the ...

THE BEST CARTOONS FROM FRANCE (120 pp.) — Collected by Edna Bennett —Simon & Schuster ($2.95). THE TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)—André François—Knopf ($2.95). French humor prides itself on its elegantly ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...