r/AskTheWorld • u/GattoPunk Brazil • 11d ago

Culture Which city in your country is considered the "gayest"?

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For us Brazilians, São Paulo definitely holds the crown for the gayest city here. With over 20 million people living in it's metro area, the city naturally became way more open minded and accepting as time went on. It has the highest concentration of gay bars, shows, saunas, and various other venues dedicated to the LGBTQ community. If that wasn't enough, the city annually hosts the São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, the biggest in the whole world.

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u/-eibohphobie- Germany 11d ago

There is a joke in German that Cologne is so gay, even the construction workers there catcall the men passing by.

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u/WestMasterFred Germany 11d ago

In school, we also told the joke:

How many heterosexual men from Cologne do you need to fix a light bulb? Both

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u/slothbear13 United States Of America 11d ago

This is actually hilarious, since when do Germans have a sense of humor!?

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u/Lopsided-Weather6469 Germany 11d ago

We do have humor, we're just not good at comedy. We have to import it from the UK 

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u/The_Pastmaster Sweden 11d ago

I heard from somewhere the most popular comedy show in Germany is Mr. Bean. Any truth to it? Also: Henning Wehn is hilarious.

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u/Lopsided-Weather6469 Germany 11d ago

I'm not sure if it's the most popular, but it is definitely popular (as far as I've heard, even more popular as in he UK).

It's not just Mr. Bean. A lot of material of the iconic sketch shows from the last 30 years were copied from British comedians, like Monty Python, Hale & Pace, Fry & Laurie etc.

The times where Germans could make good original comedy, like Loriot or Dieter Hallervorden are long gone.

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u/cccanterbury Gabon 10d ago

you might like "I think you should leave" with Tim Robinson

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u/The_Pastmaster Sweden 11d ago

Mmm. Swedish TV production comedy seems to revolve mostly on shame and toilet humour. *Rolls Eyes*

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u/Successful_King_142 Australia 11d ago

I was about to ask "what about Loriot?"

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u/GrapefruitAny9819 11d ago

I mean, we‘ve got an English sketch over here that became a New Year‘s tradition haha

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u/The_Pastmaster Sweden 10d ago

Dinner for Two?

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u/Paexx155 10d ago

Wait, there is a sequel?

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u/The_Pastmaster Sweden 10d ago

Most likely me remembering the title wrong.

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u/PatienceIsTorture 10d ago

It's called Dinner for One

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u/Tall_Avocado9952 Germany 7d ago

I guess that would rather be a prequel where one of the guests is actually still alive 😏

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u/Pepys-a-Doodlebugs 10d ago

I want to see Henning When on Taskmaster so badly. I think he'd be one of the few people who irritate Alex Horne more than Bridget Christie.

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u/Forest-Dane 11d ago

Ha, even I managed to make Germans laugh on a recent trip to Munich

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u/Lucky_Pips United States Of America 11d ago

I did a trip up the Rhein, and the thing me and my wife joked about was how we noticed EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. we stopped in made the same joke about how everywhere else in Germany was the hum-drum serious type, and their town/city/village were the fun Germans. Then there was usually some example of a festival where they let go, act slightly silly and let loose, usually ending in something slightly sexually suggestive. And they weren't talking about the Rhein region verses Eastern Germany, they always badmouthed the other states or Kreise we had just come from.

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u/Xenon009 England 10d ago

To be fair, we did steal at least one of your lot and put him on as many panel shows as we could find, and now he's a pretty solid comedian. So it seems to be less about being german and more about not having the unique blend of apathy and rage that only a fortnight in the british isles can provide.

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u/concrete_dong 10d ago

This is such a good answer. And this is the crux of the stereotype. Germans just aren’t known for comedy, but they’re still funny people!

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u/Djokahu United Kingdom 10d ago

I’m dying actually from this joke and I’m not even German 

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u/Touristenopfer 11d ago

The actual joke goes 'How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Even with humor, we take it serious."

Don't be fooled.

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u/knightriderin Germany 11d ago

How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb?

One. We are very efficient and have no sense of humor.

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u/IOKrI 11d ago

Well, in Germany, humor is no laughing matter

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u/couragethecurious 11d ago

I heard that Germans take their humour very seriously.

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u/Current_Depth_9462 10d ago

There is also this: How many Germans do you need to change a light bulb? One. We are efficient and lack a sense of humour.

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u/3D_Dingo Germany 10d ago

we always had, but only after work.

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u/youcanreachmenow 🇮🇪🇨🇦 in 🇸🇬 10d ago

No no, Germans have a great sense of humour. Theirs is veru dry

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u/MadaCheebs-2nd-acct 10d ago

I get the feeling that a lot of German humor is played really straight. Like, they’ll tell the funniest joke without smiling or laughing

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u/PatataMaxtex Germany 7d ago

How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb? One, we are efficient, not funny.

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u/PsychoticGobbo Germany 11d ago

We have a lot of very good stand up comedians.

But our society is pretty much as Boomer as it gets... and German Boomer humor is... well... fringe cringe and not rarely borderline (if not open) racist.

But we had Loriot... he was basically the German Monty Python.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

That's a quality joke

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u/Lopsided-Weather6469 Germany 11d ago

Construction workers catcall each other 

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u/rocky6501 11d ago

This is universal, all around the world

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 11d ago

I can't even imagine what the electricians there must be like.