The humour bench | rewboss in brief

[@GalacticCommanderMars]

"Mit der Benutzung dieser Bank stimmen sie unseren Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen zu"

[@AndreasDelleske]

Now we're getting in the right mood!

[@videomailYT]

^^ ist die auch TÜV geprüft und hat ein CE Zeichen? XD 😉🥳🤣🤣🤣

[@theosib]

"The floggings will continue until morale improves."

[@kandkmotorsports]

This is hilarious!!

[@RolandHutchinson]

Neither American nor German, of course -- British.

[@rogink]

Pour encourager les autres?

[@Andrew-ix9wl]

I came here to post this exact comment!

[@pinkmuffin9842]

If I see three people grinning at me consecutively, I'm gonna assume that I have toilet paper stuck to my foot or something.

[@theosib]

"German humor is no laughing matter." 😆

[@christiankastorf4836]

I wonder if there is a DIN-norm for it.

[@sakkra83]

Well, it is a serious business, after all.

[@AndreasDelleske]

Spontaneity has to be well prepared!

[@kunstkritik]

It is at least very german of you to complain about some bench in or out of your neighbourhood

[@patrickhanft]

exactly my thoughts 😀

[@AndreasDelleske]

It had to be done.

[@rogink]

Yes my thoughts too. Andrew is becoming too German!

[@kellyearthrise2453]

Not sure if it was the intention of the video, but I found myself smiling a couple of times while watching it.

[@starstenaal527]

The thought of these people trying to force people to be happy actually made me laugh.

[@qugart.]

Andrew: You can't manufacture happiness by brute force. And that, Charlie Brown, is what drugs are for

[@red.aries1444]

Deutschland ist eben sehr sparsam: Hier trägt man sogar seinen Humor zur Bank...

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

🐑🥁🐍

[@floriantischner8850]

Assimilation really did a thing to you. A very German video. 😊

[@CrowArchLane]

It has started the conversation, so it is probably working exactly as planned

[@KaiHenningsen]

Does it, though? It sure makes me feel grumpy.

[@nbell63]

now... I am happy to agree with everything argued, except the automatic disparagement of professional clowns. I trained to be an actor and my 'physical' training was done by a professional clown/acrobat - a fellow who has worked with Cirque du Soleil (amongst other things). I further worked with this fellow in a workshopped production of Shakespeare's "Pericles", and I have never worked so hard, physically nor mentally, certainly not on an extended project, in my life. Thus, I will automatically rally to the aid of a clown's reputation knowing that there are wonderful professionals out there who bear no semblance to the cheaply diminished 'American' style of cheap jesterism (yes, a word I just made up).

[@rogink]

I wouldn't argue with any of this, except the bit about smiling. I'm a late middle age male. My local area has a lot of students. There are also many obstacles such as bins blocking the pavement. So I often have to stop and wait for a passer by to pass, or vice versa. This unfailingly generates a smile from both sides, and more often than not it's a young woman letting me through. I smile and she smiles back. What's not to like?

[@DB-ouyebut]

This video made me laugh 🤣 Sometimes it is even funnier to hear someone rant about not to tell people how to be funny😅

[@HansBezemer]

An old Berliner told me he had taken a cab in the sixties, when he returned from abroad. _"Geschaftsreise?"_ asked the cab driver. _"Oh nein, ich bin in die dreißiger ausgereist und habe eine Weile in Ausland verbracht"_ he answered. _"Na,"_ the cab driver replied _"Dann hab'n Se nischt viel verpasst."_

[@ronin667]

Der Clown ist die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages!

[@TheGoukaruma]

Ist das ein Variante von "Clown Gefrühstückt? "

[@ronin667]

@@TheGoukaruma Es ist eine Mischung aus "Das Frühstück ist die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages!" (stimmt zwar nicht aber wird oft behauptet) und "hast du etwa einen Clown gefrühstückt?" "Einen Clown gefrühstückt" heißt ja, dass jemand zwanghaft versucht, witzig zu sein. Wenn man also sagt, der Clown ist die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages, dann heißt das, es ist wichtig, zwanghaft witzig zu sein! So wie auf dieser komischen Bank ...

[@abgekippt]

Und wie schmeckt der?

[@kpanic23]

@@TheGoukaruma Auf die Frage, ob man einen Clown gefrühstückt habe, gibt es nur eine einzig korrekte Antwort: Ja, mit Kichererbsen und Haha-Milch.

[@larsnachhaltigkeitimalltag3013]

​@@abgekipptkomisch

[@TheEulerID]

"Here's a little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry Be happy In every life we have some trouble But when you worry you make it double Don't worry Be happy, don't worry, be happy now [Chorus] Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy [Verse 2] Ain't got no place to lay your head Somebody came and took your bed Don't worry Be happy The landlord say your rent is late He may have to litigate But don't worry Be happy, look at me, I'm happy"... song by Bobby McFerrin

[@HotelPapa100]

Reminds me of another mandated anarchy: In Schleswig-Holstein you can get a brochure "wildes Schleswig-Holstein" listing 12 places where you are officially allowed to pitch a tent off a campsite... (Wildzelten auf Deutsch, wild camping)

[@alicemilne1444]

Better than a brochure for Wildpinkeln, though😂

[@blahfasel2000]

Well, it does make some sense to raise awareness given that Schleswig-Holstein is one of only three German states that allow wild camping for unmotorized travellers in the first place (the other two are Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

[@michaelburggraf2822]

Humor in Konstanz muss man erst mal setzen lassen ... ... die Bank erleichtert das Warten auf die Pointe.

[@Hollaraedulioe]

This is possibly the most British clip in all history of this channel. Can't think of any other coming close.

[@Rebellpfilosuffi]

Maybe our Chancellor should be invited to this bench. Just to check the effectiveness. btw i'm german and that's humor

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

Thanks for the clarification

[@MartinBrenner]

Even German Geocachers are special. They tend to create super complicated "multicaches" requiring decoding hints instead of just hiding a box.

[@535phobos]

Wait, this isnt normal?

[@MartinBrenner]

@@535phobos There are "traditional" caches where the GPS coordinates mark the place of the cache. And then there are "multi" caches which have one or more stages where you have to read letters or numbers and do some math to calculate the coordinates of the "final", the actual cache. German cache hiders like this form. But otherwise benches are often used to hide very small cache containers as well.

[@Gartenlust]

What do you call a parrot that can't fly? A walkie-talkie. 😂

[@jrgptr935]

Humor ist eine ernste Sache, und wenn es um "gute Laune" geht, verstehen wir keinen Spaß! Wie Heinrich Böll so treffend bemerkte, bedeutet das Wort "Humor" die Tränenflüssigkeit, die man im Auge hat. Es ist verwandt mit "homo" und "humus", also ist auch der Tod im Humor zu bedenken. Humour is a serious matter, and when it comes to "good humour" we can't take a joke! As Heinrich Böll so rightly remarked, the word "Humor" means the tear fluid that you have in your eye. It is related to "homo" and "humus", so death is also to be considered in humour.

[@michaelburggraf2822]

"Erzähl 'nen Witz!" "... Kann Nicht ..."

[@martinaltmann4031]

Why am i constantly thinking of Sheldon Cooper style forced smiles, when listening to this clip?

[@geogecko137]

My humor is so dark and completely broken that I'd probably be immediately arrested 💀

[@damiannematode5193]

Here in Germany we are all individuals. I‘m not.

[@peterclarke7240]

Nor am I, and neither is my wife.

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

Spalter!

[@netwitchtatjana4661]

Die erste Tür links und jeder bitte nur ein Kreuz.

[@sinform9714]

Watching the Video about the Humor Bench was quite funny. So the bench has fullfilled his purpose but in another way as it was planned.

[@hesspet]

Beeing funny everytime you should be funny - is hard work :-) I'm a hobby magician and do a sort of a clown magic (not only for the younger people). Switching into the clown on stage is one of the hardest things I must learn. But after a time, yes it is possible to switch on funny mood if you a trained this. So what's the problem. In school they remove the switch for the rest of our life... and it's hard to get it back.... Ok, that's not funny... 🙂 ...but a thing to think about why more benches like this one in Konstanz are needed.

[@fanatlarge]

Excellent rant! I would give this bench a wide berth.

[@tygattyche2545]

Oh, of course in germany people are told when to be happy. Look at this Carnivals and all those happy people. Happy by command! And that comes with an other german thing: The like of uniforms! Germany, the land where you wear a uniform for having fun...

[@arnodobler1096]

In the neighboring town of Radolfzell (20 km), where I live, there is a bench "zum schwätze" for talking. I think the ideas are good.

[@andreadee1567]

You live in Radolfzell? I’ve been there twice and I loved it! We had our hotel in Überlingen and visited lots of wonderful places around the Bodensee. Now, I’m jelous. Grumpy greetings from Ruhrpott. 😠😉

[@arnodobler1096]

@@andreadee1567 🤣Ich lebte inÜberlingen, Konstanz, Unteruhldingen (Pfahlbauten) wuchs ich auf, aber Radolfzell liebe ich am meisten. hoffe kommst wieder. LG vom schönen Bodensee

[@andreadee1567]

@@arnodobler1096 Wohl nicht so bald wieder, aber der Bodensee steht immer auf meiner Wunschliste. LG an den schönen Bodensee zurück. : )

[@ТЕРМИНУСБЛЕИБУРГ]

Der Humor ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.

[@HalfEye79]

I think, they would be more succesful, if they had written jokes on this signs. But then you can confuse the bench with a public bathroom.

[@kensmith5694]

Yes and perhaps listed the setups on one sign and the punchlines on a different one so that the complete joke required just a bit of work if you didn't already know it.

[@elkewoll2950]

Sing this to the tune of the German anthem: "Germans have no sense of humour. That's not true it's just a rumour." My non-German side (50%) will add: "We CAN laugh!" My German-side will, however, add: "But we don't!It's inefficient!"

[@eltfell]

How many Germans does it take to put in a light bulb? One. We are efficient and don't have got humor.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Damn, you beat me to it by 15 hours... Back to clown university I go!

[@jannetteberends8730]

There is a thing called laughter therapy. It seems to work. I’ve seen videos of it. Don’t know exactly when it popped up. The eighties I think. It also helps against pain.

[@barvdw]

I agree, but it probably works better in a controlled environment, without having to fear the judging of onlookers who don't understand nor care to understand what you're doing and why.

[@jannetteberends8730]

@@barvdwthat could be quite true. A vaguely remember doing a session during some training. But I prefer to read a funny story

[@Hans-ChristianSchwartz]

That bench has a culty feel to it. Telling people how to feel.... yeah, no thanks

[@davidbro1775]

So, on serious note: actually quite a few germans i know (especially from the boomer generation and older, but also young people) do report feeling exactly like you described: "wanting to be happy and silly deep down but not allowing it / thinking not having the permission for it." Its actually pretty unhealthy for your mental health and probably stems from societal norms and role models, as well as strict upbringing etc. I believe that for some its actually releaving in a strange way to be told / commanded to be happy.

[@roterfrosch5808]

Deswegen funktioniert auch Karneval.

[@Herzschreiber]

@@roterfrosch5808 Und Alkohol. Ich brauche weder das eine noch das andere, weil ich mir schon immer easily erlaubt habe albern zu sein oder über die Stränge zu schlagen wann immer mir danach war. Aber Menschen die sich nicht trauen ihre Albernheit und ihren inneren Clown raus zu lassen, die brauchen das.

[@CoPoint]

@@roterfrosch5808 'Funktioniert'? Ich weiß ja nicht, aber für mich (der ich aus einer Ecke komme, wo Karneval/Fastnacht/Fasching etc. eigentlich mehr ein Ding sein soll) fühlt sich das ganze Gedöns eher an wie die Verkörperung des blöden alten Klischees, daß die Deutschen zum Lachen in den Keller gehen und nur auf Befehl lachen: "Ab 11. 11., 11 Uhr 11, wird gefälligst gelacht!" Das klingt ungefähr genauso verkrampft, wie es dem Klischee nach sein müßte 🤷‍♂...

[@trulsdirio]

Situationskomik is the only humour that actually works.

[@xaverlustig3581]

Maybe tell people on the bench that they'll be sacked if they don't tell a joke

[@Danny30011980]

Haha very good points with an old guy smiling at a girl - it will earn you some weird looks or people will think you're a perv.and the giggling - people will indeed think you have gone mad. Btw - check out the video about people laughing in the Berlin S-Bahn. Two women looking at the phone and laughing at something and suddenly the laugh catches on to other people, in the end there is the whole car laughing heartily.

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

Sounds scary

[@alistairkirk3264]

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? [......]

[@hubertbreidenbach]

Ich sage, ich sage, ich sage

[@toraxmalu]

yea - they will call to the mental hospital in reichenau-waldsiedlung… and no, it is on the mainland part of the community reichenau, not on the island…

[@manta4077]

Centurion! Why do they not titter at all?

[@edspace.]

Granted my sense of humour is quite brutal so I guess I'd be better following the idea of ignoring a nonsense command for an authority figure, something which I read was historically quite common in Germany.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? One. They may not be funny but they're very efficient.

[@rainerwaansinn]

Es gibt auch "LachYoga" Kurse (ich weiß nicht wie man "LachYoga" sinnvoll in englischer Sprache ausdrückt 😞 )

[@ArsMcArs]

Professional clowns :D

[@roterfrosch5808]

1:17 😂That was funny. Was it intentionally?

[@roterfrosch5808]

2:10 😂

[@herrmeistermann2426]

Hö hö hö ............. [9 Minuten 58 Sekunden später] hö.

[@MrGreatplum]

I think it’s a nice idea but… the responses to that reporter are entirely predictable!

[@la-go-xy]

To me the suggestions seem to be the jokes (absurd, cute funny...) - no need for me to do anything.

[@kensmith5694]

They really should have put a bunch of jokes on the bench.

[@mabus4910]

Tell me a joke. NOW!

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

No

[@kensmith5694]

What do you get if you cross a pumpkin with a steam roller?

[@mabus4910]

@@kensmith5694 No idea, tell me!

[@kensmith5694]

@@mabus4910 You get a pumpkin about this about ---->||

[@torstenb5248]

I‘m not good at neurosurgery. So I leave it to the professionals. Same goes for laughing. Oh and: Yes I‘m German. How did you know?

[@nbmoleminer5051]

👍

[@tiapina7048]

Aren't Germans, at least old ones, famous to stare at people? In that case adding a smile, possibly not a creepy one, would be ok.

[@autokorrektor8166]

Older Germans only smile at strangers when something bad happens to the stranger......

[@tiapina7048]

@@autokorrektor8166 ze baste...

[@la-go-xy]

Germans don't feel that germans stare, usually

[@andreadee1567]

Honestly, I don’t think, you get this right. Do you really think they want to force someone to be funny? Come on, where is the famous British sense of humor? Take it as an offer, a thought-provoking impulse. Nobody is forced to sit there, it is your choice. They also have a "Barfußpfad" at the Bodensee. A path where you can experience different textures while walking barefoot. Do you think, someone is going to force you to take your shoes of? Some do, some don’t. It is that easy.

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

You did not get the joke, did you?

[@andreadee1567]

@@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht No, I’m German.

[@youtubekommentar5494]

Some years ago at the International Women's Day, in the German "Stern" magazine was an article with a female psychologist saying like: To tell woman to look friendly is in some way intrusive and a mild form of harassment. I say: Why just in the context of women at a day like that, ignoring it's the same for everybody else, too?!

[@PanzerschrekCN]

Professional clowns? First I thought it's about Bundestag deputies.

[@RevCode]

I was rather disappointed, when he then talked about actual professionals.

[@ThamiorSilberdrache]

Well, I doubt the usefullness of this bench, too, but I dislike how derogatory you are about professional clowns. It is a very hard training and a very hard job and it is not about children birthday partyies. Those clowns are rarely professional trained ones. Professional clowns are trained in acting and acrobatics to a very high level. I remember when the "Weltweihnachtszirkus", one of the biggest circus events world wide had an accident some years ago and one of their artist fell from the wheel of death and got seriously injured and could make his appereance any more on the show. So they replaced him with the clown and although he wasn't able to do the full routine of the other artist because he wasn't as trained for that special act, he did very well and without any sign of fear. He even did it with his clown boots on. The thing is, as you very well said, you can't manufacture happiness by brute force but clowns are not allowed to show that. They have to seem happy and funny on every act. Therefore clownery is a job with a very high rate of burnout and depressions. And then people come along and excoriate them for "just being clowns". Clowns do a very important job. Not only do they keep traditional circus shows running, but they are also a very important role at children hospitals. Of course it is only a job for very few people, but they do give everything.

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

The only reason I opened this page, was to complain that the title and thumbnail did nothing to make me want to watch the video. That's still true, though I watched the video, once I'd read the description. However, generally, I don't watch videos with titles that tell me nothing....the fact that I'm subbed is the biggest reason I watched this one. I'd appreciate a little more effort into enticing me...this turned out worthwhile, but many with boring, uninformative titles aren't...and I will never know if I was wrong, because I avoid those. Aside from that minor gripe, I'll say this. My grandmother was, as far as I know, 100% East Frisian, she was seemed really grim, rarely smiling. The people I've known who were German often seemed like that, like life sucked for them, and they wanted the world to know. But one of the funniest films I've ever seen was 7 Zwerge: Maenner allein im Wald (7 Dwarfs Alone in the Woods)...well, the sequel's pretty good, too, 7 Zwerge: Der Wald ist Nicht Genug (7 Dwarfs: The Wood is Not Enough). I highly recommend both, if you can find a copy. I have the second on BD, but had to settle for a bootleg of the first, because the copy I ordered either never arrived, or was the only thing ever stolen from my mailbox...ever).

[@MATT-2043]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sounds like a certain institute desperately needs it's funding cut.

[@Stupping]

im sorry man but i feel like this video is kinda tasteless. i think you kinda took this bench a bit too personally :D literally :D - now its a colorful bench some lost souls (maybe just hopeful souls tho.. - for themselves to find happyness or something) wrote their ideas onto. people go through weird shit and the brain reproduces weird shit. id try to let them be...

[@Stupping]

oh right its rewboss. whole thing is probably intentional. good portrait of the germans. i was so blind

[@sizanogreen9900]

Yeah well, this is cringe af... I mean this aren't even funny suggestions... they'd have gotten farther by just writing some jokes on it or putting up a funny sculpture in front of it. Like a unicylce riding, bowling pin juggling clown falling into the lake after having been hit in the face with a pie, or whatever these "professional funnyfolk" might come up with xD

[@veganmonter]

Although I appreciate the German directness, and desire to be "authentic." The grumpiness gets old real quick. I am not asking German shopkeepers and servers to be that creepy obviously fake happiness of a rural Wal-Mart worker. It's just that I really don't care if your significant other just broke up with you. Keep your life's problems to yourself (and maybe a counselor or trusted person). Honestly, I find the grumpiness to just be selfish, you're taking your life's problems out on others. Yes I am from the US, and work for a US firm, but if I were to act grumpy to colleagues or clients, I would be unprofessional or potentially fired (rightfully so - it's a toxic behavior). I think that was my cultural shock when I first visited Berlin. The fact that the grumpiness is considered acceptable. And to be clear, I am not saying fake happiness, that is creepy. I am just saying keep your grumpiness to yourself. I actually like dealing with the to the point servers and workers in Germany. I just hate that I have to deal with the unprofessional grumpy Berliner way more than I have.

[@pupyasko1233]

so you want people to look and act happy, even if they're very much not, but not fake it either? how's that supposed to work?

[@veganmonter]

@@pupyasko1233 I don't believe you read what I said. I am saying don't act shitty to other people. Keep your problems to yourself. If someone acts grumpy to strangers who don't deserve it, they are just a selfish prick who hasn't learned to regulate their emotions. I am NOT saying act in that fake happiness like at the Chotchkie's restaurant in Office Space. I am saying keep your problems to yourself and act professional.

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

you mentioned Berlin well, not everyone is a Berliner and that is good

[@zak3744]

@@pupyasko1233 The answer was already in their comment. They specifically said they weren't asking people to pretend to be happy, just asking them not to selfishly spread their grumpiness to people around them. It's nothing to do with happiness, it's about grumpiness. You don't have to choose between happy and grumpy, you can just be neutral and not do either of them. It's rude to expect other people to be happy for you, but it's also rude to offload your misery onto other people. It works in both directions!

[@netwitchtatjana4661]

Berlin citizens are notorious for their aggressive grumpiness, offensively insulting any strangers who are not from Berlin. To work there was a living hell.

[@autokorrektor8166]

Here's a good one: 🇩🇪Germans are loved throughout the world. Younger Germans enjoy a safe prosperous country and have a bright future ahead of them.........😂😂😂

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

Don't be negative. Germany is still a great and wealthy country.