Stefan Verhasselt: Kabarett 7.0 - The Best Stories from 20 Years of Cabaret

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Stefan Verhasselt: Kabarett 7.0 - Best of Niederrhein
The best stories from 20 years of cabaret - updated for today

Lots of people do stand-up comedy. For his 20th anniversary on stage, Stefan Verhasselt has gone for "Sit-down-Kabarett" instead. Known as "the Niederrhein man among cabaret artists", he is also familiar to many as the morning presenter on WDR4.

In this "Best of", Verhasselt once again takes his audience on a witty, sharp-eyed and gently ironic tour through the quirks and absurdities of modern society. Fans of linguistic oddities will find words and phrases in the seventh programme that, when you really listen, suddenly mean something entirely different. His fondness for all things "Nederlandse" - "Frikandel speciaal" and the like - gets its usual generous serving too.

Along the way, audiences learn just how dangerous rocket salad can be, why "milk with skin" beats oat milk, and why heat pumps in front gardens now have to compete with grey electricity boxes on the pavement - and tend to "whine" about it. The "Best of" also tackles weightier questions: why do drivers always stop exactly half a metre before the traffic-light loop, then wonder why life isn't moving forward?

Stefan Verhasselt's now-famous Niederrhein great-aunts make another appearance, and the fact that the phrase "I know the boss personally" has evolved into an eye-roll emoji gets its own wry treatment.

The Straelen-born comedian promises that his new programme will once again have audiences recognising themselves. If you can laugh at yourself, you're in the right place - expect an evening of laughter, surprise and unexpected connections. As Verhasselt puts it: "Days and weeks later, situations suddenly come up where audiences remember that evening. Dat is doch echt nachhaltig, oder?"