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In the context of the insane self-improvement that one experiences every day as a good citizen of the coaching community, this wasn’t a bad idea at first: why not make a series of it, like- well-known comedians do other more or less famous comedians and train non-professional celebrities on their backs First time as a comedian? For example, Harald Schmidt, world football champion Christoph Kramer and Mats Hummels, Thorsten Stratter, model Lorena Ray, or Hazel Brueger, Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach. The choice of lecturers appears to have been mixed – there’s also Michael Mittermeier and Teddy Tekleberhan, who is also the presenter and the only permanent member of the five-part show – but it certainly represents German comedy. What can you do.

Practically speaking, “One Mic Stand” is unfortunately underground, but that’s probably still underrated. The series is strangely wrong. None of the show. Although some readers might get the impression that things are so bad that they don’t want to look at them, they can’t look away either. But that’s not exactly what it is. The producers (including Fred Coogle, one of the enabler of The Harald Schmidt Show), couldn’t manage that, given German television’s long tradition of producing irresistible total losses, it is truly a one-of-a-kind feat.

Compared to celebrities, even German comedies are funny

Instead, in the episodes, every 45 minutes, you see a lot of chatter about getting to know each other and sitting around and all sorts of jerky bits in between, which is apparently supposed to create tension somehow. Only the musical interludes of Teddy Teclebrhan, Gaga’s talented soul man, make it seem that not everyone was completely indifferent. Hard and tedious work, which means even mediocre comedy, seems to have been completely avoided. Or is this the actual aim of the series: that German professionals, though not titans in their art by international comparison, appear here as suddenly as the titans of their art?

Anyway, it’s clear that the comedians chosen were notoriously talented celebrity trainees (besides the aforementioned, there was also dancer Motse Mabuz and actor Fahri Yardim), and so they didn’t really get a little help. exactly the contrary. There didn’t seem to be enough time or money to get the poor to write a gag or two even if it was worthy of the label from afar. Karl Lauterbach, for example, who in his headstrong stubbornness on talk shows and the Bundestag has already shown a penchant for directives here and there, begins his appearance with this: “Good evening, my name is Karl Lauterbach. I am the one who has been there for more than a year and a half now I have banned everything fun. So I’m like your mother – just without the good food.” And then it gets really lousy. Tragedy. front to back. “One Mic Stand” It seemed as if Germany, after UN Comedy had asked UN Comedy to provide a certificate of its poverty, thought again: If so, then so!