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Normally he's a good guy and just plays the "evil (right-wing) Bavarian politician or bureaucrat" in a popular satire show. He's fairly well-known in Germany, not a major figure, but his face is familiar from TV. The stunt wasn't very sensitive or clever on his part or that of the team. They apologized.

@randahl Yeah, he is on Extra3 and my wife likes to watch it. The show is a satire show.
I have to say the writers messed up with this stunt... You can literally get shot for doing something like this.

I don't know if he wrote the script or it was handed to him.

Not cool, not funny. Sorry about that guys 🙁

@randahl I guess the idiot wanted publicity, and he got it. All publicity - good or bad - is good publicity, right? 😰 🤒

@randahl I am no stranger to weird humor, but I have literally no fucking clue how that could be „funny“.

Satire should always strive to bite the mighty, not the victims.

@randahl holy crap. He used to be part of a very progressive show and mocked spineless conservatives. Apparently, the taller they are the harder they fall. What a tasteless and ignorant thing to do. smh

@randahl Until today I didn't know he existed. Now he's just an asshole that exists. Fuck that guy.

Source: am German

@randahl oh man 😕 that's not funny.

@randahl Nor should it, as it is not amusing in any way but I am sure he got his clicks by being obnoxious

@randahl He's not funny anyway. For me, it's just embarrassing and thoughtless... and it makes me angry.

@randahl "living in the past" as a person.

@randahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VH4c0-p-CY

@randahl I think I get the joke, but the timing is shit.

@randahl He's a fairly successful comedian and recently got into a lot of trouble for attacking conservative politicians at a beer festival, basically he lost a job over that.

However, part of his routine is that he plays reactionary types in order to make fun of them, or even going undercover to right-wing parties and such. If you know that this a stage persona, it can be quite funny. i guess this went wrong because nobody in Greenland knew the context.

@randahl

I saw a German stand-up once.
Then I saw him sit-down.

@randahl

I've seen a funny joke about Germans in Greenland.

This one isn't it.

@randahl He should have been wearing a hard hat, high-vis vest, and carrying a clipboard.

No-one ever questions someone who looks like they’re actually going to do real work.

And the flag should have been hidden in a pouch that would only let the flag deploy once it reached the top of the pole.

This debacle really is a lack of proper planning all around, which is also quite un-German-like.

@randahl We always knew the Germans' sense of humor was rarely in good taste. 🤐

@randahl
has he considered taking one for America and setting himself on fire?

or he could nail his balls to a bench in the middle of the plaza?

@randahl Sadly I can not boycott him or anything, since I never thought this guy was funny. But I really hope he wasn't doing it for one of the shows he appears in.

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Such an utter stupidity...

@randahl I think I have heard that raising a foreign flag is technically illegal in Denmark, but there was talk of changing this. Has this happened? And would this law apply on Greenland? Was he attempting an illegal act, and could be barred from entry in the future?

@randahl I don't even know him. And I don't want to anymore. 😕

@randahl
The Germans have a different sense of humor.

@randahl Speaking american ? sorry i don't know this language, only english exist.

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He's actually in public TV and the political satire is actually really good.

Let's see what the context of this is - I'd assume they are making fun of Trump's attempts to colonize Greenland somehow...

@randahl What a moron!!!! 😡

Greetings from Germany to #Denmark and #Greenland.

We stay at your side. 🥰 👍

@randahl The show is public TV and usually known for serious satire, not comedy or even cringe comedy.
The "comedian" is also known for satire.

So I don't understand this at all. How can anybody think this could be a great or funny idea?

@randahl "I thought I could get some shock laughs! I'm not that good of a comedian, to tell the truth."

@randahl yeah, it’s not even good humour at that point either.

@randahl I don't think so. Germans have a lot of humour. E.g. when Trump imposed tariffs, a comedian from the heute show waited in front of an American supermarket with a hi-viz west labeled "Zoll" (customs) and demanded a 25% bite of candy bars that had just been purchased. That was actually quite hilarious.

@randahl This belies the maxim "any publicity is good publicity."

@randahl Jede Karriere endet mit einem Fehler. Aber er könnte in den USA vielleicht eine neue Karriere starten. Falls ihn ICE nicht vorher erwischt.

@randahl He is a satirist on the “Heute Show” on ZDF - 2nd public German Television.

@randahl That's spectacularly stupid of him. But, that does seem to be going around. <long digital sigh>

@randahl Prosecuting him for sedition

@randahl Never heard of him but seems to be an idiot 🤦

@randahl don’t you mean English, since American isn’t a language?

@randahl "read the room"!