Hungarian jokes

The majority of jokes in Hungary, as told by common Hungarian people, usually belong to one of these subgenres:

Móricka (little Maurice): jokes about a 10 to 12 year old Jewish boy, who is preoccupied with sex and saying obscenities. (Him being a Jew is totally unimportant in the large majority of these jokes.) Móricka is easily the most popular imaginary person in Hungarian humour.

Pistike (little Steve): jokes about a 8 to 10 year old very stupid boy. The adults who communicate with him are also acting silly and many of the jokes are absurd in nature.

Kohn and Grün: jokes about two elderly Jewish people and their constant fear of the future (and the past, which is a fluid substance in totalitarian states and often gets changed...)

Arisztid and Tasziló: jokes about old-fashioned Hungarian aristocrats, around and shortly after the WWII period.

Jean: short question and answer type jokes about an imaginary French aristocrat and his servant called Jean. Usually of the absurd genre, or word-plays.

Mother-in-Law: jokes about your spouse's mother, especially how this she-monster is supposed to die in violent ways. Hungarian people hold all M-i-L are evil by nature.

Police: jokes about PCs. Most Hungarian people are not fond of the institution of law enforcement and try to avoid contact with constables. Policemen are generally regarded as primitive, uneducated and totally corrupt in Hungarian public opinion. Some of these police jokes belong to the absurd genre.

Gipsy: Jokes about the large Roma (tzigane) ethnic minority in Hungary. Recurring themes are stealing, refusing to work, fathering too many children, sex abuses - essentially all the negative stereoptypes about Roma people in Hungary.

Vállalkozós (entrepreneur-like jokes): Jokes about the newly formed entrepreneur class in post-communist Hungary. These quickly-got-rich people are usually described as a bunch of uneducated, arrogant and plain stupid criminals in the jokes. Their primitive clothing style is often made fun of.

Blonde girls: Jokes about living Barbies, who are perceivedly silly sex addicts, attracted to money and fashion and only slightly more advanced than chicken in the barn.

Scotsman: Jokes about those kilt-wearing men and fisty skulks, who never fail to act against common sense just to save a few pennies in the short run.

Asylum: Jokes about mental patients in the asylum (often dubbed the "yellow house" in the Hungarian language). These jokes are usually absurd and often describe lunatics out-smarting doctors and the general public.

Animals: Such jokes are usually featuring the bear and the wolf who are always keen about bullying the rabbit, who may be smart but gets beaten up regularly, and the piglet, who is a verbally aggressive personality. Animal jokes are often political hyperboles in disguise.

Politics: In communist era Hungary, political jokes were extremely popular and were often tolerated as a means of letting off steam. Both international and domestic issues were ridiculized and jokes often required good understanding of what's in the news to make any sense. These jokes often say more of their age than long pages of historical description. Political jokes are still popular in the now democratic Hungary, but the public now feels all politicians are so hopelessly corrupt, greedy and untalented that it's not worth making jokes about them.

Stirlitz: These are really absurd jokes, see some in the Stirlitz and the Russian joke pages.