I was talking to a Greek exchange student in a bar once, who said his favourite language was English, because the sheer richness enables kinds of jokes and wordplay that less, ah, eclectically sourced languages simply can't do.
His example of "the only kind of joke you can tell in Greek" was: why wasn't Jesus born in Corinth?
They couldn't find three wise men or a virgin!
And I keep thinking of that whenever the Yiddish Folktales account posts one that goes "These guys from Khelm, right—"