Since May, 26th, we have a new program in German Television: The “heute show” on the ZDF. A kind of Late-night-show in which current happenings in national television are parodied or commented in a funny way. Sounds familiar to you? In English “heute show” means “Today Show”. The name seems to be close to “Daily Show” but it isn’t: On the ZDF all news-related programs are labeled with the “heute”-brand (“heute journal”, “heute nacht”, etc… also, the “heute show” isn’t broadcasted daily, but monthly). Yet the format itself seems to be!

Unfortunately the copy wasn’t really successful: They forgot to copy the “Daily Show“‘s quality! It is so totally unfunny and quite dumb! Instead of intelligent, creative, ironic remarks on the absurdity in politics and the media (especially FOX News) they have lame, pseudo-funny lines… come hell or high water. I know that it’s hard to reach the level of Jon Stewart, but this host can’t stand a comparison to him. Yet, I know that it’s also more difficult to create a kind of “Daily Show” in Germany than it is in the USA and the Nazis plays a role indirectly:

… read on!