Maxi Gstettenbauer - KOMPLETT ABSURD - Preview

Comedy is a minefield these days. What can we still laugh about? That's a job for Maxi Gstettenbauer - the reliable mine-sweeper among comedians. Many see satire as a fine blade, but he prefers an axe. Why use a rapier when a chainsaw works just as well?

With a sense of timing that even clocks would envy, Gstettenbauer has climbed to the top of the country's comedy ranks. Privileged, aggressively heterosexual, and utterly averse to sport - this dark-humoured family man strangles the nation's funny bone with surgical precision. And he does it so skillfully that afterwards you wonder whether white men shouldn't just be banned outright. Gstettenbauer doesn't wait for permission; he grants it to himself - with his wife's blessing.

KOMPLETT ABSURD is the liberating roundhouse kick of German comedy. Hard-hitting gags, relentless pace - straight from life. And it lands on everyone who deserves it. It's so much more fun to attack when you yourself are the biggest joke.