Kay Ray - Kay Ray Show

"Kay Ray Show" - winner of the Lorscher Abts Award - 2019, winner of the Bremer Comedy Preis (jury prize) - 2019

By vocation and passion, Kay Ray has been the hardest working man in showbiz for nearly 30 years. A virtuoso who would sell his own grandmother for a good gag - or at least Claudia Roth. A divine trickster. A jester without fear or fault. A constantly reinventing natural talent. A provocateur who has shaped and influenced the entire genre.

Ingmar Stadelmann in an interview in October 2019: "If something annoys me about the German comedy landscape, it's that a comedian like Kay Ray, after more than 20 years on stage and with all his brilliance, still doesn't get decent attention on television, let alone his own show. That seems absurd to me. But who am I?"

Torsten Sträter on Kay Ray: "You are Kay Ray and that is a great deal. You are a gesamtkunstwerk, a one-man circus. You are the grim reaper of humour..."

Arnulf Rating: "Kay Ray - someone who stands up for his truth with everything he has. He takes every risk. And in doing so he is a sparkling grenade of joy with tremendous force. You have to see it live! Go!"

Chris Tal thanked Kay Ray at the Bambi awards ceremony in November 2019. He owed his breakthrough with Stefan Raab to an attitude and a wit that was decisively shaped by Kay Ray and brought to the stage in Chris Tal's own way. "Darf er das?" would not have been possible without Kay Ray's inspiration.

Kay Ray is the living embodiment of a prank: provocation and poetry! Trash and tabula rasa! Experiment and ecstasy! Anarchy and amour fou! Slapstick and cabaret! Comedy and chanson! As a singer he reaches hearts, as a clown every diaphragm, and as a provocateur every small mind. No one is safe from his jokes and his magic. That is what makes him so different. And it is what makes his shows so different - night after night. See for yourself!