Main article: Russian joke. The most popular form of Russian humour consists of jokes (анекдо́ты — anekdoty), which are short stories with a punchline. Typical of Russian joke culture is a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots. ...

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Apart from jokes, Russian humour is expressed in plays on words and short poems including nonsense and black humour verses, similar to some of the morose limericks of Edward Lear. Often they have recurring characters such as "little boy", "Vova", "a girl", "Masha". Most rhymes involve death or a painful experience either for the protagonists or other people. This type of joke is especially popular with children. A little boy has found a minigun - < ...

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Like everywhere else, a good deal of jokes in Russia are based on puns. Of course, 95% of humour is lost in translation, but... (L) The genitive plural of a noun (used with a numeral to indicate five or more of something, as opposed to the dual, used for two, three, or four, see Russian nouns) is a rather unpredictable form of the Russian noun, and there are a handful of words which native speakers have trouble producing this form of (either due to rarity or an actual lexical gap). A common example of this is kocherga< ...

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Obscene slang known as mat is the salt and pepper of the vast majority of Russian joke narration. Unfortunately this aspect is nearly impossible to render in English. However, there are two particular types of jokes that rely, as the primary source of humor, on the expected, casual usage of obscenity common particularly in the speech of the lower social classes, where it is possible to explain the mechanism of the humor. In one series, a typical plot goes as follows. A construction site expects an inspection from the higher-ups ...

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Every nation is fond of this category, but in the Soviet Union telling political jokes was in a sense an extreme sport (like mountaineering): according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. A judge walks out of his chambers, laughing his head of. A colleague approaches him, and asks him why he is laughing. "Oh, you should hear the joke for which I just gave that guy ten years. An advisor asks Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev: "Leonid Ilyich, I've heard you are a great fan and collector of political anecdotes? How many do ...

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Every nation is fond of this category, but in the Soviet Union telling political jokes was in a sense an extreme sport (like mountaineering): according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. A judge walks out of his chambers, laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him, and asks him why he is laughing. "Oh, you should hear the joke for which I just gave that guy ten years." An advisor asks Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev: "Leonid Ilyich, I've heard you are a great fan and collector of political anecdotes? How many do ...

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Russian jokes - Fixed characters. Standartenführer Stirlitz, alias Colonel Isayev is a character from a Soviet TV series (based on a novel by Yulian Semyonov) played by the popular actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov about a Soviet intelligence officer who infiltrates Nazi Germany. Stirlitz interacts with Nazi officials Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller. Usually two-liners told in parody of the stern and solemn announcement style of the background voice in the original series, ...

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Russian jokes - Fixed characters. Standartenführer Stirlitz, alias Colonel Isayev is a character from the Soviet TV series “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (“Семнадцать мгновений весны”, based on a novel by Yulian Semyonov) played by the popular actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov about a Soviet intelligence officer who infiltrates Nazi Germany. Stirlitz interacts with Nazi officials Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller. Usually two-liners told in paro ...

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The life of most Russian university students is often associated with a lack of money, hunger, and other miserable conditions for many people coming from small towns and living in dormitories. State universities (the only type of universities in existence in Soviet times) are notable for carelessness about the students' comfort and the quality of food. Most jokes make fun of these grotesque conditions, inventive evasion by students of their academic duties or lecture attendance, and sometimes eve ...

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Some jokes ridiculed the level of political indoctrination in the educational system of the Soviet Union: "My wife has been going to cooking school for three years." / "She must really cook well by now!" / "No, they've only reached the part about the Great October Socialist Revolution so far." Others poked fun at the time it could take for consumer goods in the Soviet Union to be delivered: "Dad, can I have the car keys?" / "Ok, but don't lose them. We will get the car in just seven years!" ...

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The "inner voice" series, often set within the framework of cowboys, has a typical template: the inner voice gives a series of smart advices which eventually lead to big trouble. A cowboy is riding across a prairie. His inner voice tells him, "Get off the horse and dig a hole!" The cowboy does this and finds a box of silver. "Dig deeper!" The cowboy digs and finds a box of gold. "Dig deeper," says the voice again. The cowboy keeps digging and finds a box of diamonds. "Now, I wonder how you'll get ...

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Every nation is fond of this category, but in the Soviet Union telling political jokes was in a sense an extreme sport (like mountaineering): according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. An advisor asks Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev: "Leonid Ilyich, I've heard you are a great fan and collector of political anecdotes? How many do you have already?" / "Twelve labor camps!" See also:

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Roma: Jokes about the Roma (Gypsy) ethnic minority in Romanian. Recurring themes are stealing, refusing to work, having too many children - essentially all the negative stereotypes about Roma people in Romania. Scotsmen: Jokes about those kilt-wearing mean and fisty skulks, who never fail to act against common sense just to save a few pennies in the short run. Russians are often seen as primitive, rude and drunkards. Q: What is big, red and stinks? A: The Red Army when they take their ...

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Russia gains much of its wit from the great flexibility and richness of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. Like with any other nation, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and silly wordplay to political satire. Russian culture - Anecdote. Main article: Russian jokes Russian jokes, the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories wi ...

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The largest part of the humour of Yakov Smirnoff falls into two wide categories: Misunderstanding of American life and custom through the eyes of a new immigrant. For instance, reading employment announcements of "Part-Time Woman Wanted": "What a country! Even transvestites can get work". Upon being offered barman on a "graveyard shift", the remark "A bar in a cemetery! What a country! Last call? During Happy Hour the place must be dead." Bizarre comparisons between America and Russia. "We have no gay people ...

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For most of Russian history, humour remained an expression of the human spirit. Under the ascetic dogmatism of the clergy in medieval times, human laughter was pagan and suspicious, and political satire was considered potentially dangerous under autocratic monarchies. Though independent political satire could be extremely dangerous during most of the Soviet period, the official satirical magazine Krokodil was given considerable license t ...

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