The humor isn't actually that different. What is different is the social importance of humor. In the UK there are comedy clubs everywhere, every job description includes "good sense of humor required" - you wouldn't find the equivalent of that in Germany. Then there's the whole concept of self-deprecation, that it's ok to laugh off failure, that's socially accepted. It doesn't matter how badly you mess up in your line of work, as long as you can tell the tale of your underachievement in an entertaining fashion you'll be alright. And that just wouldn't work in Germany at all, it would make matters twice as bad.
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