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The structure of the jokes is pretty much the same, but the specifics are the more important detail and if the listener isn't familiar with them, the joke gets lost.

It's not just other languages that cause this either, some subsets of queer comedy are hilarious to those of us in the community but basically unintelligible to those outside of it. They might laugh but you can tell it's only because they know they're supposed to, not because they want to.