a lot of humour is similar across Europe; language differences mean it doesn’t always travel well.
it appears many folk in SE and DE do take themselves more seriously and due to recent history are very sensitive of any jokes about race, religion or appearance; added to that SE folk take producing Schlager music and following rules even more seriously than DE :laugh_at:
UK, NL and DK have a similar sense of humour (although it can vary depending on regions and their political/religious views)- and if you are not familiar with the local language it can be easy to feel offended.
Humour in FR, ES, IT, CH and AT and IE is more subtle – comedians historically had to avoid offending the Catholic Church and and compete with its own absurdities for comedy value.
This is not unlike the BBC except under the last 3 popes the Vatican has ensured pedos and thugs are nicked far quicker and cleaned up the finances and management corruption; they can be more entertaining (Pope Francis does have a sense of humour, and there is a lot of funny banter on Radio Maria NL you wouldn’t expect to hear on a religious station) – and (unless you are German) you don’t have to pay them from your taxes…
The badly edited Grauniad (a paper that claims to be left wing hasn’t helped things -its reporting standards are going down the WC TBH)
The Swedish dude is not 69 but aged 57; the age quoted was that of British singer Sandie Shaw.
He has been a musician since the 80s but only recently joined SVT. In his youth he was a gents hairdresser but for a Northern European this job would always becomes less appealing with age unless a chap specialises in beards and toupées. And if he thinks Tel was harsh if Graham Norton is still presenting Eurovision for the UK (and maybe also RTÉ?) a gay Scandinavian colleague about the same age group is surely going to be fair game :laugh_at:
