Translating Humor

This Ted Blog explains how hard it is to translate humor into different languages. Bilingual comedienne Maysoon Zayid's presents a challenge for translators as they try to relate her jokes in Dutch, Japanese, and even Czech.  Reading it will help you understand the lengths to which translators must go to accurately convey humor in another language.  Critical to successfully translating humor is that the translator must have mastery over the target language and a deep understanding of the culture so that he can pull relevant, if slightly different, cultural references to translate the essence of the joke.