"Le rire est notre meilleure aile ; il nous soutient quand nous tombons."
Victor Hugo

(laughter is our best wing: it holds us when we are falling)

 

 

Today, I am going to tell "Toto" jokes. These are very popular jokes among elementary school children, and there are thousands of them. They also have been part of the French culture for a while. "Toto" is a young school boy, an impertinent dunce, who talks back and is lazy but usually not mean - I believe his name would be "Little Johnny" in English. Most jokes evolve around school, homeowk, talking back to adults and are very short and use colloquial language.

Devinettes

Quelle est la ville la plus vieille du monde?
Réponse: Milan.

What is the oldest city in the world?
Answer: Milan (sounds like "mille ans": a thousand year)

 

Our latest French acting export and Oscar nominee has found his target roles in Hollywood! Playing 50 different villains!

Leyla loooooves our French jokes and puns series, so much indeed that she wanted to record her own: here you go (elle est trop mignonne)... Enjoy!

Devinettes d'ascenseur

Que dit une tasse de thé dans un ascenseur ?
- Je veux mon thé!

Que dit un cigare dans un ascenseur ? 
- Je veux des cendres! 

Bon appétit!

Le client demande au serveur, en consultant la carte: 
- Que me recommandez-vous en toute confiance? 
- Un autre restaurant...

Why not learn French with a little humor? I am happy to announce a new blog post series that will focus on jokes and puns in French. Laughing feels so good (you can see in the picture Olivier et Leyla cracking up... we love to laugh in our family!)
Mille mercis to Mostafa who volunteer to put this seri together, translate the jokes and explain the puns! And feel free to add jokes you know - stay PC of course - in the Disqus box below :-)

Le Président Nicolas Sarkozy a annoncé hier un plan ambitieux pour palier au déficit de la sécurité sociale: mettre en vente les monuments parisiens, qui appartiennent à l'heure actuelle à la ville de Paris.

Plusieurs puissances étrangères auraient déjà fait des offres s'élevant à plusieurs milliards d'Euros. Il semble que la Chine soit prête à payer 3 milliards d'Euros pour la Tour Eiffel à elle seule.

A hilarious moment from Catherine Tate's BBC comedy sketch show about a French class. Hilarious British humor... and who better to make fun of the French than the English :-)