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What you have to understand is, that this is not "Comedy". It's political cabaret. That`s something completely different from "feel good, light hearted comedy". He`s talking about uncomfortable truths in a humorous way. A lot of satire in it too.

I was the one, that told ShadyShae to react to it, I'm a Mod on both his channels. Somehow we did a thing on KZfaq, and I'm happy about it, Pispers got a good message.

Volker Pispers is not concerned with making his audience laugh but rather with making them think. To fully understand Volker's implications it is necessary to have a huge background knowledge in the first place. You do know that this performance was 15 years ago?

The translation of Pispers text is pretty good.. but you have to consider that his routine is around 15 years old by now. And if you are not that familiar with german politics of this time you may not know some of the names he dropped (like Schroeder, Edmund Stoiber and so on).

Thank you for your Reaction! Please keep on watching, you will be surprised!

I'm beginning to grasp why there's this prejudice against germans not having any sense of humor. It's because in the english speaking world people like Volker Pispers are called "comedians" and expected to be funny. Well, he is not a comedian, he's not making jokes, and he is not supposed to make you laugh. He is a satirist who is supposed to make you think. He's using exaggeration - which sometimes can be funny - to amplify facts up to a point, where it almost nearly transitions into the realm of conspiracy theories. Difference is, he's just exaggerating, but not making things up.

Oooh, Volker Pispers trending in the USA now 😅 That's kinda funny in itself. 😂

German cabaret is much more of a political thing and less "funny" in that sense. A lot of work with irony, high concept stuff, stage characters etc., or very complex musical cabaret and word play. And even among those political cabaretists, Pispers always struck me as a firebrand. His goal is fury first, fun second.

I've lived in Germany over 40 years, Pispers has been popular here for decades, a regular on T.V., albeit late night. He retired recently

Since 1776, the U.S. has only been at peace for 17 years. hmmm

You did it. :) I highly appreciate that. I love his shows. Specifically this one is more a history lesson rather than comedy.

I´m German and I didn´t even know about Volker Pispers until everyone started to react to him....I think he is amazing, there are not many like him.

You struck satire gold. Stroppy in this context means 'pissed off like a child in tantrum'

Ahahaha you noticed that too? My theory is everyone suddenly got that video of Volker recommended by the algorithm at the same time. Just like so many Movie reaction channels seem to watch the same movies around the same time. As a german myself however i find it super interesting to see you all responding to Pispers' cabaret show. The english subtitles for it are actually remarkably good and VERY accurate. Who ever did them did a great job at trying to not letting anything getting lost in translation. Which makes me happy that this subtitled version is now seeming to catch the attention of a lot of Non-german youtubers.

Nice reaction video... Volker Pispers is a amazing satire 👍

It is kind of sad that none of the american viewers I saw appreciated or even understood the sarcasm and irony of Pispers.

Volker Pispers is by no means "a comedian", what he does is "political satire with a pinch of cynism" which has the label "Kabarett" in German and which also by no means has something to do with the english term "cabaret" = which is a lots of people on stage are dancing and singing.

There is a difference between traditional Western European and American 'stand up 'comedy. It's not so much about making the public laughing out loud all the time. It's more about making people uncomfortable yet entertained.

Was ist denn hier plötzlich los? Volker Pispers macht seit 2015 Pause, oder ist in Rente. Aber Pispers hat mir die Augen geöffnet. Der Typ ist klasse☺

Guess it's rather simple: Pispers is still very much admired throughout Germany, so when Shady Shae made the first reaction video series, it attracted a lot of clicks, mostly from German Pispers fans congratulating him for it. Then other black KZfaqrs took note and did just the same, pretty much with the same results, and that's about it. In other words, Pispers "works" click-wise, but looking at the hits on this very video, you probably know that already. 😉

Volker Pispers is a German political cabaret satirist. That‘s a different genre than “comedy“, but it can/ should be somewhat amusing at the same time. This show-video is from 2004/2005 , so almost 20 years ago . He retired from stage a few years ago. Most of his performances were targeted at Germany/ the Germans, but he did branch out into other issues as well. Sometimes he used slight exaggeration as a linguistic tool to emphasize or highlight something in an ironic, humorous way - but the data, quotations and information to which he refers have always been well researched and accurate. He’s a master of the satire craft and used German linguistic double meanings, allusions, subtle irony and neologisms in a way which can hardly be translated. So despite the subtitles, non-German speakers may not fully understand everything immediately (especially since he sometimes refers to German politicians and political events in Germany, too). But taking your time while watching (+ doing your own research,too) surely increases the chances to “get“ him. Pause, rewind, play, pause, read.. :) But it's worth it.

Some of the punchlines don't work as well today because most people are unfamiliar with the characters and their backstories. In order to really follow Pispers, you need a lot of general knowledge, especially in (German and international) history. Who of the people younger than 40 still knows Pinochet and what happened in Chile? Later in the show, the GDR loans by Franz-Josef Strauß also come up - even in Germany, 30-year-olds today have problems understanding this punchline, internationally it doesn't work at all. That's why I don't understand why so many Americans react to it today. Yes, the show does a good job of showing where German skepticism about the U.S. comes from, and since especially in the POC community a certain skepticism is also becoming more widespread (at least that's what I've noticed in recent years), there's a connection there. I wish Volker would release a new version of the show. But unfortunately he is retired and there is probably no chance that he will come back - although we need him so much right now. Edit: "pampig" (stroppy) means something like pissed off, salty. Pispers was not watched for entertainment or comedy, the punchlines are only built in to make the insanity easier to bear. Volker Pispers was a teacher and he puts his whole fist (not just a finger) into the wounds that we tear in our stupidity, greed and ignorance and then he adds salt. The audience often laughs just to not scream in pain.

The Gulf Wars seem to not really get much attention both inside and outside the US, I guess that may be the reason why this series became so popular. Like, the whole thing in the Middle East has been going on for so long that a whole generation only knows Iraq and Afghanistan as failed states and (in the US) Iran as evil reincarnated.

You got that right on spot, bro! Political cabaret and Volker Pispers in particular aim to open your eyes and give you historical evidence about deficiencies in government actions or lack there of while being very sarcastic about it. Sadly, Volker Pispers retired few years back, saying that he’s devastated for trying to educate the people about all stuff going wrong but after so many years not seeing any change, he’s too exhausted to continue… I get why you’re having difficulties following him as he gives a lot of side information, mostly about German Politicians who either are supporting what he’s telling about or how they contradict themselves in related topics. So it’s not easy to keep up without knowing these politicians and maybe even more important only seeing part of his performance in which a lot of information is given to connect the dots. I was very lucky to have seen one of his last performances and same as you, I’m always keen on information and when it comes to political background and facts the media doesn’t report about, Volker Pispers taught me so much I wasn’t aware of especially when it comes to how global events are linked to each other. To find him funny though, your sense of humor has to be very dark and sarcastic. Seeing how your video differs from most others I’ve seen in the way of being skeptical, analyzing and eager not to miss anything, reflects exactly the mindset that he’s trying to evoke. Great job, man! 👍

If you were to describe Volker Pispers as a comedian in a personal conversation, he would probably be unhappy. Volker Pispers is a political cabaret artist who wants to clearly differentiate himself from comedians. I think Pispers sees himself more in the tradition of Dieter Hildebrand and the Münchner Lach- und Schiessgesellschaft (Munich laughing and shooting society). What is the difference between a comedian and a political cabaret artist? The comedian wants to make people laugh and the cabaret artist wants to make people think.

I'm currently subtitling a more updated version of this program from 2012 (i think), maybe people will react to that in the future. With better translations 😂

I cant say whether he is attracting only black foreign KZfaqrs, but i think he is attracting youtubers who are able to think. without patriotic blended "eyes" or something else. If That is a sign, all black youtubers you find are sacred in a way. Pispers is not really a comedian. Its political cabaret. He is retired now but in his time he often has been blamed and lawyers tried to stop him, BUT he could ALWAYS show, he is telling facts.

Yeah me and someone else suggested him to Shadyshae in order to show him what kinds of "german humor" there is. Then suddenly many other black reaction youtubers connected to german content jumped on the weagon. It has nothing to do with the skin color, i think it is just that black youtubers with content around germany look each others channels and are connected. Pispers is not comedy but poltical cabaret it's meant to seriously criticize with (dark) humor to make it more digestible.

To me he's the German equivalent to George Carlin when he gets down into the nitty gritty. I love them both.

Well, I'm from '58 and the sentiment was exactly how he tells it. Let's call it left of centre and I'm one of those who see the USA as right of centre for the Democrats and ultra right for the Republicans. Maybe you could watch it because it also gives an insight how European politics functions. I'm Dutch and particularly with the whole Allende debacle, there was a decidedly anti America sentiment. Basically political it was a mess. That continued into the first and second gulf wars...

I remember watching Pispers in the early 2000s. It was a weird time and I was very skeptical of anyone talking about 9/11 considering how many braindead conspiracy theories were out there. But while Pispers was very critical of the US he didn't drift into conspiracy theories. Instead, he outlined the introduction of a new economic system during the 70s and 80s that we call Neoliberalism today and how it quickly transformed the US into an imperial oligarchy. In the late 90s french intellectual Pierre Bourdieu was one of the first ones to recognize what was going on in his book "Gegenfeuer"(Counterfire - Against the tyranny of the market), I guess Pispers had read this. Whether your want to understand the Iraq war, the 2008 financial crisis, gun violence, inequality, or why we can't seem to act against climate change after enough digging the answers lie in the way neoliberalism rearranged the power structures and the role of the state in society. If you read academic papers(political science) today it is almost like a meme to blame Neoliberalism for anything and everything. Essentially what the US and Britain did in the 1980s was ditch capitalism and democracy and instead rely on an (in hindsight) esoteric concept of a self-regulating free market that will surely yield positive outcomes if the government just keeps its hand off of it, so whoever is rewarded with capital by that system shall also be rewarded with proportional amounts of political influence. The result was an Oligarchy that quickly pulled all the levers it could to accelerate bottom to top capital redistribution => The US today is more unequal than France was right before the French revolution. The military-industrial complex converts ungodly amounts of taxpayers money into private profits. The fossil fuel industry spends billions on bribing politicians and climate science denial in order to keep destroying our stable global eco-system for private profit. The NRA poisons American minds with pro-gun propaganda to the point where in the face of 20+ dead schoolchildren people still rather talk about maybe arming teachers or turning schools into airport-like security zones instead of gun control. Money has always been power. But Neoliberalism reformed many western democracies in a way to explicitly reward people who have lots of capital with lots of direct political influence. The original idea for neoliberalism formed in the face of the 1930s fascism. To prevent a union of state power and economic power (which was the definition of fascism at the time) the idea was to use a free market as a form of checks and balances and ensure the separation of powers. This idea developed for another 40+ years. But it never worked, because the free market was a myth, just like its self-regulation. Instead what you get with a deregulated market is rampant exploitation and accelerating inequality. Attempts to give this power back to the people will be fought viciously and if history is any indicator, the oligarchs will rather side with the ideologically extreme(fascists) than give up or even just reduce their wealth and power. This process can be seen very well in Elon Musk, who now adopts a proto-fascist culture war rhetoric and supports a republican party dominated by right-wing extremists because he fears unions and fair taxation.

This type of humor is pretty big in Germany. It is called Politisches Kabaret, which is something like political satire. Volker Pispers uses humor as a tool, but he really wants to critique the powerful and make his audience think. Comedy is his means to an end. Not the goal. Most American comedians want to make you laugh first and foremost, getting across a political point of view may be a secondary goal at best. The closest American Comedians who I can think of to Politisches Kabaret are Jon Stewart and George Carlin. But only to a degree. I think the balance between comedy and critique is different. More equal. Comedy is not just a means to an end / a secondary goal for George and Jon and their political point of view is important to them. There are cultural differences however for sure. George and Jon are the exception in the US, while political Kabaret has a long successful tradition in Germany.

Listening to a video of Volker where he speaks German and wanting to read English subtitles at the same time is a strange feeling for a German speaker.😅 Thx for the reaction tho.

Volker Pispers was funny as hell, but he never talked mediocre bullcrap. He was always 100% legit and true to himself - that's also the main reason why he quit going public. After more than 30 years of trying to educate the people, he came to the conclusion it is pointless to keep trying and going on all the while the people are becoming more ignorant and dumber with each year passing by.

ich hab mich auch schon gefragt was da abgeht ^^

It’s crazy that it took Pispers over 20 years to go viral among (the mainly) American crowd. He is a big reason why Germans have such strong opinions about anything USA.

i think most germans are pretty close to feeling neutral about merkel, it's a general "could've been better, could've been worse" mindset from what i can tell

These videos aren't new in any way; the show took place (I think) 14 years ago (long before the Syrian were actually put in the cabinet).

I noticed quite the same, as I follow some of these guys. One started on Pispers and suddenly I saw them popping up all over the place. Political satire is no Hahaha fun, but really dark and laughing with clenched teeth. They do not just put a finger on a wound, but rip it open.

There is a big issue translating his message into English: All the subtle hints and references are lost in translation, especially his lashings on former German governments and leaders. His main theme is the hypocracy of the people in power, what they say and at the end what they do. A simple example: The USA is promoting democracy and the rule of law all around the world and critizising dictators and authoritarianism, unless they are allies. He's not defending dictators, but he condemns democracies concealing atrocities of dictators just because they are on the same side. There's a lot to stomach for an American, since he has a lot of examples where the USA fails to keep it's own virtues. As a consolidation, Germany and German politicians get the same amount of spanking. Other subjects of his shows are the issues and aberrations of our economies and capitalism, especially how laws are enacted to benefit a few on the costs of the huge majority. He justs connects the known issues and facts to transport his message.

This trend seemingly started about a moth or two ago i think. As for us Germans, it is very exciting to see American KZfaqrs suddenly take interest in a more than one decade old German satire program, that was never meant to be international and we almost forgot its existence. So, most of the German comments a pure excitement, appreciation and suggestions for more. The fact that most reaction videos are from Black Americans is more of a coincidence in my opinion. Its a trend that creates content and views. But at the same time, it has some educational/informational value of things that actually happened in the world between 1970 and the early 2000's. And yes, some portions of the program just get lost in translation, so don't worry about it too much ;-) Volker Pispers is using a very intelligent rhetoric with wordplays, that can violate American and German politics at the same time in the same sentence.

cabaret, not comedy, but yes you get your history lesson in quiet a funny way.

I also noticed that YT has been promoting a lot of reactions to Volker Pipers lately. When the first reactions appeared, I also googled him. I like how he manages to translate the background of historical events in an entertaining way into a simple language for the interested audience. I find it interesting that you noticed that most of the reactions currently come from black KZfaqrs. I hadn't noticed that myself before, but that's also because I don't classify people by race, skin color, or anything like that - to me, everyone is the same in that regard. I look at different sets of values. By the way, one of my favorite comedians from the States who occasionally throws in some politics is Fluffy / Gabriel Iglesias. Can really recommend him, I've laughed tears - maybe you might do a reaction to him sometime.

German Kabarett, like Volker Pispers, is technically comedy, but I would say that laughs are not the main selling point. It is more about ridiculing and criticising ongoing political events - the punch lines serve mainly as a vehicle to transport the message the Kabarettist wants to convey and keep the audience interested. The target audience for this is stereotypically the well educated liberal middle class. That means you need a lot of cultural and in the case of older shows also historical context to get most of the jokes. If you didn't follow early 2000's federal politics, most of the references to and jokes about (at the time) well known politicians won't land.

it´s not comedy. it´s political cabaret. - it´s the truth. this is sad and sometimes funny at the same moment.

There is nothing lost in translation. The problem is: to fully understand and enjoy political cabaret (which this is) you need a basic knowledge about the topics or people mentioned. So it´s only natural that you won´t get the jokes about german politicians for example.

As i said in Comments as f.e. at James Bray: It is very difficult to follow him if you are not a nativ german ! It's the things he do not say in words but "in between". You allso have to be fluent in History !

Pispers is the real deal ... he is a legend in germany!

Also interesting nobody mentions it: Kabarett is closer to the stuff people like Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver do. Political satire. Not comedy. (Btw: Jan Böhmermann has basically transferred the concept of Last Week Tonight to Germany with ZDF Magazin Royale.)

The reason political satire works is because on that stage we get faced with the harshest truths expressed so bluntly that the laughs come basically out of the fact that nothing is even remotely as grotesquely hilarious as reality. When your laughter gets stuck in your throat you know the satire artist is really good. Essentially, if you want to write jokes, watch the news with attention and think carefully about what they're telling you.

Hi just thought I chime in aswell. I noticed the trend aswell with 2 black reactors and am equally confused how that suddenly popped up, but it was nice seeing people from outside of Germany reacting to it and other German comedy bits. I thought I just give a bit of help to understand the video. One of the first things you need to know is that this is more than 10 years old, iirc Merkel wasn't yet in power and a lot less beloved than she would eventually become. Around the end of her career a lot of people around me who would never vote CDU were thinking about voting for her because of her, after hating her 12 years ago. I remember my Mom saying: "Please change the channel I can't hear this woman's voice" and then thinking about voting for her due to some of the things she did, like the refugee situation with accepting them, starting the Green Revolution, opening the way for same sex marriage (which had been a gigantic taboo for her party) and her foreign policies. You can appreciate certain aspects of the era Merkel if you're from a different political view and still talk hours about how much you're happy that she's gone and how little she got done for such a long reigning period. Pispers knows that his audience is usually not CDU supporters, but much more left-leaning (I would say) and that's why he makes fun of Gerhard Schröder aswell (back then SPD, but he didn't care so much about the social part some would say). Of course all of that is difficult to grasp from someone from the outside looking in and I understand that. I was a bit surprised that you said you never heard Bush talk about Christianity, because when I look back at the 2001 era, then I see a lot of Christian propaganda, turning the Irak war almost into a crusade and if you google it you can even find statements from him like: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' (taken from the Guardian). So yes Bush said a lot of religious stuff, which isn't atypical for his party, but sounds insane to Pisper's audience who's usually less invested in religion if at all Btw i would have appreciated it if you linked the video you reacted to in your description, that's common courtesy on KZfaq from what I know - done

hi. it's very difficult to transport such things as satire from one language to another. it is very easy to translate what is said, but with such things as satire, the essence is lost very quickly and often in the translation! this is much easier to understand in "normal" comedy. Basically, what Pispers is doing here is a far cry from comedy in any form as Americans understand comedy! it is basically pure satire which is made of facts with slight exaggeration and comparisons that are well fitting and should open people's eyes and make them think. btw, I'm German and I hope I was able to make it a little understandable.

The naivety comment was regarding the "we are the good guys". Stoiber was a far right religious candidate for chancellor, hence "the other Ayatollah", as a joke. Just to explain those! Edit: Oh, and Pispers' humour is very harsh and very grim, so if you think some statements are krass, that's the point. It is worth watching till the end though. I actually rewatch this every now and then, but in fairness, it is my kind of humour.

First of all. This is not comedy, but cabaret. Which is an important distinction to make, since cabaret is almost always highly political, quite often very offensive and direct and it's assuming some base knowledge or at least intrest in the political landscape. In contrast german comedy could be coloured with political statements, but most is more "brain out and enjoy the ride over less serious topics" Secondly, yes there is a lot lost in translation and more importantly in context. Pispers is long retired and from his evolving program "Bis neulich" - "Till recently". This isn't even from the last version and the particular video you are reacting to is 14 years old by now. Not only are you missing out on the propper context of that time and what politicians were in the public awareness during that period. You even get a very scewed perspective on politicians you so know, since they had a very different standing in the public eye at that time. Little example since you brought it up at that segment. Edmund Stoiber is a german politican fom the CSU - Christian Socialist Union. They always present themself as defenders of tradition and highly religious. He was the front runner for the conservatives against Gerhard Schröder from the SPD, during the last election before that program aired. So the point was: You would need to be highly desperate to gather behind the pope, just to get rid of Gerhard Schröder. (Like ther persians did with Kumeni against the Sha) Let's be honest, you weren't even desperate enough to gather behind Edmund Soiber (to get rid of Gerhard Schröder)...*short pause* Anyway, back to the IRANIAN Ayatolla (implying Stoiber to be a religious nut, like Kumeni) In other versions of this program he even "acknowleges" his mental jumps from past to present being a problem and not knowing, how to get smoothly back on track, before using this punchline. And as a third point, I agree with you: It is quite strange why so many black english speakers start to react to this videos recently. Most of it is withing a month or so. It get's even more irritation, since the video is already 14 years old and the material used even 18years or more (since he used that during an ever evolving and long running program) However the common nominator you seem to have is, that you are all migrants. The tree content creators I saw reacting all mentioned not longer living in ther native country and two of them said they are trying to improve their german. So maybe just maybe that is because Pispers was one of the greatest cabaretists of his time and his message still holds true to this day. I'm not at all surprised he is still strongly recommended to content creators. And this specific excerpt deals more with foreign politics instead of internal, so it is easier to access, if you were not living in Germany at that time.

Just wanted to add somethin. In Germany we differenciate two kinds of "comedy". Somebody mentioned it here alrdy but this has to be clear. We got the "Komödiant" and the "Kabarettist". The "Komödiant" is the comedian. Doing standup, doing light hearded sketches and all that. The second one, the "Kabarettist" being a political or social satirican (?). The one who does satire. There is a clear distinction between those two artforms in germany. Unlike the US, where you mix those things and have no clear boarders. Dave Chapelle for example often tends to be more on the Kabarett end of the line, but he still does too much "Komödie" zo be considered a Kabarettist. Kevin Heart on the other hand is a classic Komödiant with sprinkles of Kabarett here and there. In Germany we seperate those. komödie (Comedy) is for the masses and only has to be funny, while Satire (Kabarett) is for the intellectuals and is measured by more "poetical" and "academical" standards. The public media also treats them differently. There will never be a "Kabarettist" on the celebrity big brother house, but there might be a "Komödiant".... you get the idea

Volker Pispers did NOT do comedy. He did political cabaret. Comedy is there for laughs. Cabaret is there to stop you laughing.

Volker Pispers Programms always transported knowledge in the first line. What made it "Comedy" is his approach of explaining what happened in some more simple ways the people can relate to. Also making silly and funny comparisons and metaphors to literally paint the absurdity of many things going on. Thats the fun part. But the majority was striking the audience with some truth and uncomfortable facts about their own Lifestyle and stupidity as well. And "Stroppy" is something like: Being offended in a sulky way. It's more used to describe the level of sulkyness a toddler would show in it's behaviour.

Pispers got a special humor. He focuses mostly on political or societal contradictions and some German peculiarities.

The thing is that with a comical show you can combine three things: 1. educating people about recent political events 2. expressing your disapproval by using satirical techniques 3. keeping people focused by the funny presentation. That is like taking a bitter medicine with a cube of sugar. I wouldn't consider Volker Pispers to have a kind of dark humour. The things that he's relating in his shows are dark facts of international politics and in particular the whole history of Usamerican foreigns politics is extremely dark. This is probably difficult to swallow for Usamericans as they are told 24/7 that the US are the "good guys" while as a matter of fact they are the big bad guys. Not the only ones of course, they have plenty of support for their criminal machinations from their Nato allies but they are the driving force behind so many conflicts and failed states. People in the US don't realize how they are stripped of the wealth produced by ordinary working people with the vast and obscene amounts of money spent on weapons and wars. How come that a rich and industrially developped country cannot offer general health care for all of its citizens?

The thing with Stoiber is a little bit hard to understand when you don't have the background: Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician who served as the 16th Minister President of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. He was also for the installation of crucifixs at bavarian schools because the would be non partable from bavaria. This was said after the national surpreme court banned the crucifixs from school because state and religion should be parted from each other. For that reason Pispers said:"back to the IRANIAN Ayatollah". With other words, he call Stoiber a religios fundamentalist. (And pardon me, my english is not as good as should be for a more accurate translation)

he hasent talked much but he said alot ... usually people talk like a waterfall without saying anything

The reason why mostly black people reacted to it is that i and someone else suggested it to Shady Shae and afterwards to James Bray which are black yourubers who react to german stuff. Others then copied from them or got a recommendation for reacting to this. It's not that its a special thing between Pispers and Blacks, it's just a bubble dynamic.

The translation is pretty good. Edmund Stoiber is a Bavarian politician, who likes to pose as a (slightly) fundamentalist Christian. "stroppy" here means "miffed", "pouting". On the verge of throwing a childish tantrum.

And of course you should also be well versed in history and the historical context and the military operations of the USA in order to understand your program or cabaret program, because otherwise you would not have the information to classify it correctly.

The thing with political satire / social comment is , that one needs to know the political and cultural references (at the time in this case) to see the subtle digs and find them funny. At least I needed it to get into British humor and most of American Stand -up.

Glad i am not the only one who notic3s the amount of reactions poping up :D

One of the best cabaret artists we have in Germany, unfortunately he stopped being active, I think, four or five years he hasn't been doing anything and unfortunately he won't be coming back either. But there are a lot of videos of him, at least in German, a lot of DVDs. I was at a live performance once and it was just great, because the live performance tells a lot more about the agenda than the things you see on KZfaq or found on his DVD. Just terrific how he stabs the thorn into the problems of German politics, and some people don't even notice it themselves.

Volker Pispers 👍👍👍❤🌍👍

German Kabarett is not Comedy. Satire is right, but "Kabarett" is a special kind of satiric critisism - if I use the right words.

You know, I just thought that the other day. I watched one video of a British dude watching Pispers and suddenly I have dozens or recommendations of English language people watching these videos and in total I noticed 3 that where white. I originally thought I had some kind of observation bias - dunno, maybe the contrast of the reactor and Pispers made it more apparent to me - or maybe it'd be just my latent racism. I have to say, I am kind of glad I am apparently not actually going crazy and someone else points it out as well.

Stroppy = unpleasent, harsh, imputend or rude

14:05 sulky would be the more fitting word.

No, Chris, your result is the algorithm filtering. When I look for Pispers (I don't even know the guy) I get a lot of rants by him and only the occasional rection BUT those reactions seem to come exclusively from black folks, even with the added word reaction.

Please keep in mind the video is already 20yrs old. It came out just after the Iraq invasion. Yes there are some germany specific references, but often you are just lacking the historical background. (many of his jokes only make sense if you remember the ridiculous US propaganda in preparation for the iraq war.)

Pampig / Stroppy can be described as a little kid sitting at the dinner table not wanting to eat spinach and getting all bitchy about it. Pispers was doing political cabaret, which is to comedy like peas to beans. Similar, but different. It's not about easy laughs. That's why you usually don't see the audience clap a whole lot and if they do, it's mostly just short. The topics are centered on recent events and facts, presented with a bit of sarcasm to spice it up. Anyways, stay true to yourself and do release what you deem worthy of releasing. No need to jump on every hype train, there are enough reactors doing that already. It's refreshing to see someone doing his own stuff. Keep it up, Buddy. Greets from Bavaria

7:40 He calls Edmund Stoiber ( Minister President of Bavaria) a religious leader in Bavaria, comparable to the religious leader of Iran. This is, of course, an exaggeration, although Bavaria very much emphasizes Christian values.

In the end everyone should see this, no matter what color. The only reason i can imagine why main black people actually react to it is that maybe some of them are a bit less patriotic because they feel stuff like racism in the US and maybe think its not as great a country as they always tell them ? But i don't really know it, the same that i don't understand why this german satire thats around 10 years old suddenly pops up at american KZfaqrs. greetings from Bremen / Germany

Stroppy = In German „Pampig“ , in englisch = grumpy. Mister Pispers is not a Comedian ! He make „Satire“! Google Translater: Art genre (literature, caricature, film) that criticizes people and events through exaggeration, irony and [biting] mockery, exposes them to ridicule, denounces conditions, castigates them with sharp wit. In German : Kunstgattung (Literatur, Karikatur, Film), die durch Übertreibung, Ironie und [beißenden] Spott an Personen, Ereignissen Kritik übt, sie der Lächerlichkeit preisgibt, Zustände anprangert, mit scharfem Witz geißelt

And yes, it was translated that has already surprised me anyway, that there were eventually translated into English, but it's all who lost all in tonality, the pronunciation, the specific words, there is only in English, and this is said between the lines so beautiful, that's all of course at a translation lost and therefore it is of course only in the original really really really good and of course translated also good, but nothing beats the original language.

4:39 Gerhard Schröder was the former chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. 4:59 Is a joke about Bavaria (Bayern). Bavarians prefer to keep to themselves like some people in the southern states. 7:41 "But back to the IRANIAN Ayatollah..." it's a german pun. The pronounciation of Aya sounds like german word "Eier (eggs)" which means balls. The pronounciation of "tollah" sounds like german word for "tollen, herumtollen" which means frolic/romp/cavort. Ayatollah sounds like Eiertoller and means a person who is playing with his own balls. 9:36 Honecker was the communist leader of East Germany, a vassal state of the Soviet Union. 12:26 "Never again a war must be started without Germany" is a pun of "Von deutschem Boden darf nie wieder Krieg ausgehen" in English: Never again a war must be started from german soil.

Für diese Art von Satire braucht man viel politisches Hintergrundwissen (Inland und Ausland). Das ist selbst für deutsche Ohren nicht immer leicht zu verstehen! Er spricht sehr schnell und packt sehr viel Informationen in seine Sätze. Auch nicht ganz einfach, ihm da zu folgen, besonders, wenn Deutsch nicht deine Muttersprache ist. Es erstaunt mich, dass so viele Amerikaner darauf reagieren. Mit „stroppy“ meint er aggressiv, wütend, ärgerlich.

He is like the German George Carlin, but not quite as fierce. I never grow tired listen to either of them.

He retired in 2016, there were many more like him like Georg Schramm. To understand their material you need to have knowledge about german history and politics but also have general historical knowledge and political knowledge. If you unsure, always have a wikipedia/google tab open to check what he is saying but you better be prepared. Many People that are in love with Germany asked about Comedy or Satire and we germans were like "check this out". It´s mostly hard to swallow, it´s dark, it´s honest, it goes where it hits you in the gut but it´s never a lie, it´s always the truth. They use open information and they did something we germans call "aus der Seele sprechen" wich translates to "speaking out of my soul" wich means that these men speak out what many germans think and/or know but are to afraid to speak out because of social pressure or maybe they are working in a delecate positions where they have to withhold certain topics. Yes, this also exists here. Anyway, these People are a national treasure, they educate the people and they want you to think. They want you to face the truth no one wants to hear and see. Because it´s Kabaret many people don´t take it to serious until he/they dig deeper and deeper. He makes pauses to let it sink in. He was the Grand Master so to speak but Georg Schramm and many more were also very good at this. Today, if you want to get the newschool versions: Check out Jan Böhmermann and Die Anstalt, both hosted from ZDF. Die Anstalt had even one Video removed from there Channel and the Mediathek because the ZDF said "This was to much". I saw that show on TV, 2 days later it was gone. BUT you can find it on KZfaq, it´s called "Die verbotene Folge - Die Anstalt" on a random channel, it´s nothing official since it was orderd by court to be taken down (regarding the anstalt skit)! So you see, these people are not afraid to speak up. It is something many people see as a Kulturgut in Germany and has it´s roots in our history. But be warned: The banned show from Die Anstalt was banned for a "reason" (the truth) and if you see this Episode, well, it will change your view regarding US foreign politics. But if you want to try it, look it up in private and don´t react to it. It´s better this way! Edit: The translations are very good tbh but if you don´t have the backround knowledge it can sometimes be hard to get everything.

Comparing Volker Pispers to George Carlin is pretty accurate in a way. Then again Pispers does goes more against the lies of mainstream media narratives.

Hey i am german and he was my history teacher and political menthor! Sadly i havent seen him in a long time now....hope hes doing ok. Like u folks! Greetings from Hesse!

I´m trying since years to show the people from the US the videos of Volker Piespers. I´m glad that a lot of people in the USA are becoming now aware of the destructuctive imperialistic politics of their country.

pampig is like ill-tempered you could say grumpy, but strompy is what's in the dictionary dunno about u guys, but when i come across a word i dont know, i look it up ^^

Thats not realy comedy ... it's cabaret

07:20 The Problem with this type of humor is, that you not only have to know something of history and world politics but also about the german politics of that special time periode. And this makes it hard to follw, even for germans 😉. At this time Gerhard Schröder was "Bundeskanzler" (1998-2005). The guy bevor Angela Merkel. Greetings from Landenburg (Germany)

its realy cool that you put this countdown at the beginning into the video. nice dood! grüße aus berlin ;>

Hi bro, cheers from Germany. Be careful with generalizing anything from the youtube search results (or Google for that matter, same company anyways). The search results are all highly personalised. They show rather your own bubble than the general reality. Btw: All the historical facts and events Volker Pispers mentions, are true. Please check for yourself with different sources. You will be shocked.

timestamp 7:04 edmund stoiber is a german politician of the party csu (christlich soziale union) in the german state of bavaria. in the rest of germany, outside of bavaria, the party is called cdu (christlich demokratische union). edmund stoiber was prime minister of bavaria from 1993 to 2007. and chairman of the csu from 1999 to 2007. Stoiber lost the federal election in september 2002 as the union's candidate for chancellor to the then incumbent chancellor Gerhard Schröder of the spd party (social democratic party of germany, incidentally the oldest party in germany founded in 1863).

This phenomenon is interesting. I really like the sophisticated but kind way you react. Possibly you gathered a little more information about Pispers after you published your video and maybe the context of his satire. But I want to add here - since today I accidentally stumbled over this wide reaction thing about this excerpt of Pispers' program - that Pispers is special. One cannot speak of "dark German satire" in a general way, I guess. He started decades ago with one program and adjusts the same stuff only a bit. That is the typical beginning of an evening with Pispers: He makes a joke, that he basically can work with the same jokes all over the years and it always fits. He is a remainder of the political cabaret which became mostly irrelevant after we Germans started to become funny with stand up comedy in the 1990s, tee-hee. Since anybody told us that we have no humour, we wanted to become more internationally acceptable. We are not that successful because we are a small country thus we can only have a very few special ones and the rest is junk. Typically, for a few years one can really both enjoy and suffer Pispers' satire program. His bluntness of course is also and mainly directed to us Germans and he includes himself. His jokes make you laugh as well as the laughter keeps sticking in your throat while you nod and feel the ache. But German satire is - as far as I can see it - mostly not in a very good state, like I wrote before. Thus one shouldn't generalise. - Back to Pispers: Since he aims at his fellow Germans there is a lot of implicit stuff one cannot follow if one does not live in Germany. It's the same with comedy in any other country. You would love to understand all the implications which refer to the actual discourse in the country because you want to join the laughter. Yet you have to live there for a while before you are able to get the whole idea.

"Sloppy" is probably a wrong translation for the german word "pampig", in this context at least. Not sure if there's an equivalent in the English language. "Pampig" is like getting bitchy because of offense taken due to unfulfilled expectations.

"stroppy" means something along the lines of annoyed with an aggressive undertone.

The German word "pampig" can be translated into "arsey" or "snotty", according to my dictionary. If you are not familiar with these phrases either, I think you could describe it as somewhat childishly stubborn or petulant, if that is of any help to you.

Hey Chris, talking about the people. I was kinda anti USA in my youth but because of the leaders and companies. Today I know a lot of US guys through iRacing and it's like the same in other countries. 99% are good guys. Don't let 1% look the country like idiots.

Volker Pispers is making "german political Cabaret". This genre critisizes the authorities, the goverment, the establishment. He and also his publicum is fully aware that generalizations like "americans are.... " are not correct. He is doing the same about Germans and his publicum. It's comedy and as such rather it would be hard to get to the punch line, if he would always be political correct or having to make endless long sentences to explain that he is only talking about a part of the germans, americans etc. .

That part you missed,and you didn't understand,why people were laughing, is , when he refers to Edmund Stoiber,he actually made a link to the religious leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini ! Edmund Stoiber was the minister president of the federal state of Bavaria, and Bavaria is a among Germans famous for being very religious and traditional in catholic religion! So he was comparing the former president of Bavaria Edmund Stoiber with Ayatollah Khomeini, because Edmund Stoiber at this time,was very well known,as very conservative! That joke made people laughing!