English-speakers have spent decades deriding French humour, but are the French truly not funny? Or are their jokes just hard for foreigners to understand? The French are known for many things - from ...

When learning French, one of the hardest things to do is to understand jokes - which are often layered in cultural references or complicated wordplay. It's common for new arrivals in France - and ...

France is known around the world for its food, culture and quality of life but not so much for its sense of humour, which can often leave foreigners nonplussed. How much of that is due to jokes being ...

The French humor magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, an act that comes in the wake of violence fueled by the American made video depicting him in ...

‘But then how do you translate it?' ‘Well, I can't. We in France don't have a word for it.' This scene in the film “Ridicule”, by Patrice Leconte, shows a marquis at the court of Louis XVI in ...

The Palo Alto Players’ production of playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” deserves huge audiences because it’s both laugh-out-loud funny and starkly serious. The play manages to find ...