It’s OK to make racist jokes now,” he says. “You’re going to offend someone, no matter what you say. As a comedian, that’s my right.” The pharmacist asked him what size he would like. The Dane thought for a while and then replied: “Ones that fit on a Camel.” Swedes, like many other nations, like to use food to describe things. This funny Swedish phrase basically means “to make a bad situation worse”.

But some Swedish comedians beg to differ, with the king at least continuing to provide a great source of material. Finally, both Danes and Swedes joke about what they see as the overly literalistic compound words which they imagine exist in Norwegian, with a collection of words in skämtnorska, or joke Norwegian, sometimes expressed in joke form, such as this Danish example, which literally translates the lim in Limfjord, the fjord in northern Jutland as "glue": One meme on Svåra Föremål concerned failed craft projects using seashells. The group's admins even sold a wall calendar featuring seashell animals and figurines. Here's a collection of Bellman jokes, and here's an example of a Bellman joke (courtesy of Wikipedia).Lamporna blinkar, bommarna är nere, men det kommer inget tåg = “The lights are flashing and the barriers are down, but there’s no train coming” (suggests that despite appearing otherwise, someone might not be operating at their full mental capacity) Du har inte alla .rar-filer i releasen = “You don’t have all the .rar-files in the release” (alludes to not having all the tools or elements necessary to complete the task at hand) Okay, but I really want to go swimming so we’ll do that after we’ve had a swim. 18. Nu blir det andra bullar They formed S.U.C.K (Stand Up Comedy Klubben) which soon found its home at Norra Brunn on Surbrunnsgatan and has since become Sweden’s comedy Mecca. Nowadays, Oredsson is something of a stand up veteran, with over 1,000 performances to his name. “I think the Swedes are rather funny and humour is a survival kit you need here.” Quite.

A man comes out of the shower and says to his wife, “It’s too hot to wear clothes today”. He continued, Honey, what would the neighbors think if I came out to mow the lawn like this?”Some of the new generation of Swedish stand-ups, such as Fredrik Andersson, Tobias Persson and Evelyn Mok, have even managed to cross the North Sea and make a living out of their comedy in the UK. Der Richter zum Angeklagten: “Sie sind beschuldigt, Ihren Nachbarn unter Schimpfworten in den Wald getrieben und dort ganz fürchterlich verprügelt zu haben. Sind Sie da nicht ein bisschen zu weit gegangen, Angeklagter?” Antwort: “Ja, das stimmt, Herr Richter! Ich hätte es schon vorher auf der Wiese tun sollen!” 6. Papa needs his medicine