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Anyone who saw the Albert Brooks movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" (come on ... anybody?) knows that what's funny in one place may not be so funny in another. One region of a country may crack up over something that gets crickets elsewhere. The United States has "redneck" jokes. In Canada, there are jokes about Newfoundland residents, who are called Newfies:

Three prisoners are sentenced to death, and they make each choose their means of execution, either electric chair or lethal injection. The first prisoner is from Quebec. He requests the electric chair. The executioner pulls the switch, but nothing happens. "Well, you made your choice and you lived. You may go free," the warden says. The second condemned prisoner is from Ontario, and he also requests the electric chair. Again, nothing happens and he goes free. The third prisoner is a Newfie. He says: "I guess I'll have to pick lethal injection. The electric chair is obviously broken."

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In Finland, they never completely got over decades of oppression by the Swedish, and still tell mean jokes about how dumb the King of Sweden is:

The King of Sweden is out hunting with his aide. Suddenly, in the clearing ahead, a man appears. The King aims his shotgun at the man, who shouts "I'm not a moose!" The King fires his gun and kills the man. As they run over to see the victim, the aide asks the King why he shot even though the man said he wasn't a moose. "I thought he said he WAS a moose," the King said.

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What do you call a Norwegian under a wheelbarrow? A mechanic.

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Russian humor is based on a combination of silliness, logic, and resignation about always getting less than expected. There's a joke about how post-Soviet restructuring in the late 1980s changed society:

"The people who used to tell us that two plus two equals ten are now telling us that two plus two equals five."

Bummer. But this Russian joke about lowered expectations is sillier:

Two men meet on the street and one of them asks, "Is it true that you formed a musical group?”
Second man: “Yes, a quartet.”
First man: “How many?”
Second man: “Three.”
First man: “Who?”
Second man: “Me and my brother.”
First man: “You have a brother?”
Second man: “No.”