COLOGNE, Germany -- He might be persona non grata in Kazakhstan, but Borat, the crazed Central Asian TV reporter created by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen, is a hero to the German comedy scene. By ...

Anke Engelke has shaped the German comedy landscape like no other. On December 21, the undisputed queen of German ...

German writer-director Frédéric Hambalek surprised everyone this year at the Berlinale with a comedy in Competition that ...

A German slapstick comedy Western parody, a kabuki drama from Japan, an Indian historical action epic, a satire anthology ...

The glorious peculiarity of the German comedy “Toni Erdmann” resists easy categorization. What is it? Something about a tightly wound businesswoman and her relentlessly practical-joking father. But ...

There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is the World War II era. That's when the Nazis sent Jewish entertainers to the death camps. And many non-Jewish German comedians ...

Berlin-based Picture Tree Intl. has picked up international sales rights to blockbuster high school comedy “Fack Ju Goehte 3,” which opened with €15.4 million ($18 million) in Germany, Austria and ...

TBS is set to remake German comedy Arthur’s Law – the first original comedy from Turner’s German network TNT Comedy. The U.S. cable network has secured the rights to the project, which is known ...

BERLIN — A controversial German-made comedy about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler jumped to the top of the charts on its first day on Thursday with 45,000 admissions — equating to a box office of $400,000 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Make sure they know to play it loud,” the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, “Toni Erdmann.” Since its rollicking debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, ...

Germany and comedy have not been synonymous, to say the least, since World War II. But, now, German comedy is making a comeback. There's a stereotype that Germans aren't funny. One reason for that is ...