Americans

We Love To Fight!

The U.S. has so much extra money lying around, that we can easily afford to spend more on military that the next 17 countries combined.

Source: The Economist.

Funniest People

Ha-ha! Americans rated most hilarious in global poll.

The Germans have been voted the world's "least funny nationality" in a global poll, which names Americans the funniest overall and the Spanish the most amusing Europeans, ahead of the Italians and French.
The social network and dating website Badoo.com asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name both the "funniest," or best at making people laugh," and "the least funny" nationality.
Americans took the funniest prize, followed by the Spanish in second and Italians in third.
The voting for "least funny" nationality confirmed the view of American novelist Mark Twain that "a German joke is no laughing matter."
The Germans won comfortably, ahead of the Russians and Turks.

Related (from 2001): Europe's funniest nation revealed.

Internet research into international humour has discovered that Germans laugh the most.
The stereotypically straight-laced image of the Germans has been bucked by a psychological study looking at what makes people laugh.

Conclusion: Germans laugh at Americans.