The German translation (made up of nonsense pseudo-German) was:
This sketch is available on the CD-Rom Game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
The concept of fatal hilarity is not an uncommon one. David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest[?] deals with a videotape containing a movie so entertaining that anyone watching it loses all desire to do anything else, eventually becoming comatose and dying. Like the translators in the Monty Python sketch, the only person who could watch the movie was the director, who was too insane to be affected by the film.
In addition, much of comedy slang deals with the concept of death, e.g. "I killed them out there".
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