Hungarian Humour

In October 2012 my husband and me went to a so-called book event, which actually was a sort of book and audiobook presentation with the writer and the actor, who has read the audiobook, present, in Cologne. The book was entitled "Er ist wieder da" and there is an English translation: "Look Who's Back". It was to cause a big controversy in Germany and be a huge bestseller for the publishers, who were also attending. Basically it is about Adolf Hitler having been somehow resurrected and commenting on present-day Germany. And which is even worse, it is written in the first person and this first-person narrator is the man himself, so the satire is at times very harsh because eventually one has to realise that one is laughing with Hitler about present-day shortcomings. There is a German idiom that says that one's laughter gets stuck in one's throat, meaning that though one laughs, one realises that whatever one is laughing about has ceased to be funny, a sensation felt by a lot of people while reading this book.
There was one question I asked Timur Vermes, its author, whose father is Hungarian, on this occasion: "Is it your Hungarian side that enables you to laugh at all these things. You see, I've read Michael Powell's autobiography and in it  Powell states that his partner, Emeric Pressburger, was able to laugh about everything and Powell credited his being Hungarian for this."- I've never gotten an answer but instead Vermes wanted to know who Pressburger was and as I began explaining about The Archers the actor, Christoph Maria Herbst, got interested.