Humor always is a topic and sometimes the best way to talk about things – here as well as in other countries. After Dieter Hildebrandt and others like him quit the boards, the stage has not been filled with real equivalents in my eyes… regarding political humor resp. satire.
Yet we have a Jan Böhmermann – OK, a bit hard to laugh about sometimes, as Mr. Erdogan knows, but still, he gives political satire a new twist. And appears in other formats as well. Lately, I very much enjoyed a short commercial of the “ZDF”, one of the two public TV channels in Germany:
Young woman in a supermarket, obviously lookin’ for a special product, but the shelves all filled with the same product – and obviously not with the one she intends to buy.
Cashier, famous TV news anchor Claus Cleber (I am always wondering if this is an alias, what a name…. Like Hanni Hüsch. Or Gundula Gause… come on – these names cannot be real… sound like comic characters, Gundula Gause… reminds me of Duckberg’s Gundel Gaukeley, you call her Magica de Spell…) shouts out a promotion for a fabric softener – and all of a sudden all the shelves are filled with the same fabric softener.
Young woman, irritated, asking shop assistant Jan Böhmermann: “And where do I find the olives?”
“Well, of course tomorrow at 4.10 p.m. sharp – right after the show XY.”
Brilliant. Pure comedy – on a public TV channel. Great.
P.S.: Anyone able to tell me the name of the young woman?