Amadeus Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 World-record 70,000 watch German comedian Barth Some 70,000 people packed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Saturday night for a show by German comedian Mario Barth, setting a new world record for the number of people to watch a stand-up comic. The 35-year-old comic, a Berlin native, is known for broad humor about gender stereotypes. On Saturday he hit familiar notes with jokes about shopping-addicted women, macho men and beer. The arena had been sold out for months for the show, the final stop on Barth’s two-and-a-half-year tour “Men are primitive, but happy.” The solo shows sold 1.7 million tickets. Before the show, Barth said American comedian Jerry Seinfeld was perplexed when he heard of the world record attempt. “He couldn’t imagine that a single man would perform in front of so many people,” Barth said. The crowd at the Berlin show was more than four times larger than the previous world record-holder, a 15,900-person show by American comedian Chris Rock in London, a Guinness World Records spokesman said. Better cars, better economy, and now we even have the better comedians - not looking too good for Blighty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Didn't they break that record at Neurenburg some years ago, in the thirties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Didn't they break that record at Neurenburg some years ago, in the thirties? Yes I believe they did! In fact, the show was so successful they took it on a tour of europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manshimajin Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Better cars, better economy, and now we even have the better comedians - not looking too good for Blighty They all look Austrian to me (like Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart)...sorry Amadeus only joking. But I am not sure about the better cars...even though I drive one. I thought the Honda Jazz was numero uno for customer satisfaction. Now that Range Rovers and Jaguars are Indian...other than Morgan (the only car in the world whose body shape is patented - and whose biggest export market is Germany) are there any other Pommy cars? TVR is Russian I think? Black cabs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ean Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 What do you call a German with a sense of humour? Herr-larious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 What do you call a German without a sense of humour? Sour-kraut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jampton Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 And set your watch back 30 years for Manx humour!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ean Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelm Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 I think the German keeper lost his sense of humor after the Eurocup Blaming the Italian Referee for fixing the match, that is after the Italians were knocked out by the Spanish team. Go figure! They have a sense of humor whilst they are victorious Migs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 How long was he on the stage for? Because according to my German colleagues there is only one German joke in the whole world... English humour takes on The Fatherland - Ace Rimmer in action! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manshimajin Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 English humour takes on The Fatherland - Ace Rimmer in action! ...and he likes kippers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 I thought the German Daleks in Dr Who recently were great. Not as good as Spike Milligans though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grianane Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 70000 germans all wanting to go to the toilet at the same time - now thats funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 I thought the German Daleks in Dr Who recently were great. I nearly fell off my chair when I watched that - Dr Who is strange anyway, but German Daleks? And it's "Nürnberg", understood? I don't care if you don't have the letter 'ü' in your alphabet - there is no town called "Nuremberg" - In the same way that there is no such thing as a Porsch - it's a Porsche - see that 'e' there at the end? Say it! Say Porsche or I call my German Dalek friends and have you exterminiert, jawohl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 I never would have guessed you were German if you didn't go on about it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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