What's happened to Czech humour?

The Czech media recently complained about a French TV satire programme that made fun of the Czechs and their upcoming EU presidency. They're laughing at our expense, they claimed. The liberal weekly Respekt criticises this attitude and writes that instead of complaining they should put more thought into reviving the Czech sense of humour."For some time now it has been claimed that there is a special brand of Czech humour, slightly dark, slightly cynical, slightly self-ironic. A glance at the recent past, however, makes you wonder whether this is just a myth. Not a single Czech station has a satirical show in its programme, while the Germans, notorious for their lack of humour, have a number of satirical shows. If it wasn't for the Internet things would look very gloomy as far as Czech humour is concerned."

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