via the New York Times: two articles:
He sports a pot belly, scruffy mustache and ugly glasses, and likes to burp on live TV, yet 18 percent of German voters would be willing to vote for him in next month’s national election.
What could they be thinking?
Horst Schlaemmer, the alter ego of German comedian Hape Kerkeling, has taken the country by storm, generating a media buzz that rivals that of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, her challenger in the Sept. 27 elections.
The comedian’s press conference announcing his spoof bid was carried live on two networks.
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3. Isch Kandidiere! (offizieller Trailer)
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More on Hape Kerkeling.
on Sep 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
[...] First off: there is a difference between left-leaning politicians using humor in this country and comedians whose politics lean towards the left. Politicians have goals. Comedians have jokes. But if we are to conflate the two — don’t forget: the rules are always changing — then we can say that there is no Beppe Grillo equivalent in this country (Stephen Colbert’s attempted campaign more closely mirrored Will Rogers than anything else), nor a Horst Schlaemmer. [...]
on Dec 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
[...] “Big Ideas”; the Edinburgh articles arrive; the videos from Edinburgh arrive; Horst Schlammer appears; Patton Oswalt debuts on Letterman; we learn about Ebrahim Nabavi; The Kids in the Hall return; [...]