Before “The King of Grownups”: Gabalier’s singing causes a sensation

• After a physically demanding race against Mario Barth, Chris Tall nearly falls off his shoes.
• The vocal performance of Volks-Rock’n’Roller Andreas Gabalier causes excitement on the net.
• Oliver Pocher moderates, Chris Tall wins the show.

A critique

from Bodo Klarsfeld

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Oliver Pocher, Mario Barth and Chris Tall in a four-part live format, each with just under four hours of broadcasting? He can not only be cheerful, but also have met one or the other in a similar form, for example, in “Beat the Raab”.

Because that’s what “The King of Grownups” is about: the three comedians have to do it in different battles compete against each other, with fighting only ever between two of the three dimensions of the show. The third of the amusing triumvirate merely moderates the event, which some in turn suggest “Because they don’t know what they’re doing” with Barbara Schöneberger, Thomas Gottschalk and Günther Jauch.

The fourth and most important show in Fight for the “King of Grownups” title it is then moderated by a host, which RTL does not want to reveal yet.

“I’m a star, push me out of here”

And because the show is supposed to be fun, all games were based on more or less well-known television formats. It all started on Tuesday evening “I’m a star, push me out of here “. “We brought the jungle into the studio,” announced Oliver Pocher, who had to host the first episode.

For colleagues Barth and Tall it was now a question of pushing the other together with a Plexiglas wall that separated the two potential kings of children from each other along a line. That this exhausting it was mostly noticed by Chris Tall, who won this fight but then had to blow it up, but it looked like he was recovering.

Visit of Janine Kunze, Jasmin Wagner and Horst Lichter

In truth, there was no time for true relaxation, as I already had “The Masked Kottchen” the next game was scheduled. By asking specific questions, the protagonists now had to hide behind “funny” costumes Track down celebrities.

“Are they real celebrities or what are called prominent today and do gymnastics in the summer house, for example,” was Barth’s perfectly legitimate question to Pocher, who either exercised restraint or lacked wit – almost nothing to say.

Things generally looked like that evening not particularly easy to get out of hand, which also manifested itself in the number of bars. Despite the concentrated load of jokers, there has never been any talk of fireworks in this regard. Even the celebrities behind the disguises – Horst Lichter, Janine Kunze, Jasmin Wagner & Co – were a little overwhelmed after their “coming out”. The one of Guido Cantz then it went down a bit, why Chris Tall spoke suddenly, pale as a sheet.

“The King of Boys”: Chris Tall “has circulation” and has to lie down

“I’m sorry, I have real circulation. I have to lie down for a moment, but I don’t want to do it in front of the cameras, “admitted the pale 29-year-old, to whom the opening match” I’m a star, push me out of here “apparently hit more than expected.

Self a Glass of water, a piece of glucose and a stool did not start Tall’s system, which is why the transmitter – “before Chris falls” (Pocher) – even switches to one unscheduled advertising break adopted. After the short break and half a banana, Christopher Nast, Tall’s real name, was feeling better again.

Battle with host Andreas Gabalier: “The Shit Giants”

For the next battle with the name well done “The Shit Giants” The two comedians had to memorize 50 90’s song lyrics as best they could in advance and then with the Austrian in the live show Volks-Rock’n’Roller Andreas Gabalier almost Karaoke to sing. It was Barth and Tall’s job to continue singing a line of Gabalier’s song with perfect lyrics.

While Tall was pretty sure of his feet and the lyrics of “Barbie Girl “ (Aqua) o “Men are pigs” (The doctors) had absolutely what it takes, Barth failed, for example “Sex bomb” (Tom Jones). It cannot be ruled out that the Berliner was upset by the performance of Lederhosen-Elvis from Austria. “I feel that Howl by Andreas Gabalier like physical harm“said someone in Twitterland. “How badly does it sing?” another.

Ösi-Zeitung: “Gabalier embarrasses himself live on TV”

Also in Austrian newspapers it was there Gabalier’s resultwho has not only friends in the Alpine metropolis, collected with taste. “Gabalier makes fun of himself by singing live on television”, was the headline of an article in the free newspaper “Heute”.

In any case, Chris Tall sang Mario Barth on the ground, won the round and was already clearly in the lead. At the end of this in the ear canals, certainly painful episode all the protagonists still offered the Grönemeyer song once sung by Oli P. “Airplanes in the stomach” Dar. They shouldn’t have done that.

A game of hide and seek in the main evening program

The other plays were noted only for their name and not for their dramaturgy, originality or tension. They were still called “Look what they are hammering”, “Storm of blows”, “Hit the stick” and “The farmer is looking for a pig”.

With the latter, its “complicated” rules Ilka Bessin aka Cindy of Marzahn explained, it was about looking for each other on the premises of a farm and, of course, finding them as quickly as possible. End of story, nothing to add!

That there is a file simple game of hide and seek to enter the main evening program of 2020, it can certainly be considered surprising. Even the Pig noseThe fact that people hiding had to tie their trunks made the episode that once again won Tall no less bad.

Tall also wins the “Kindskopf Biathlon” final

In the final game – the “Child’s head biathlon” at least it worked physically back to the point. With Rollski Several play stations had to be mastered on the “path”.

At the station “Snowball Curling” For example, it was necessary to roll felt balls straight like a bolt on a long narrow table in an open sack, while in other places gifts had to be thrown into a moving fireplace. Also in the final it was Tall who made the best impression and also himself sent to the shooting range hired. The fact that it had “circulated” shortly before was no longer a problem with “cross-country skiing”.

The 29-year-old sent one to his colleague Barth a whopping 7: 2 home and thus he won the very first stage on the way to the title “King of the Grownups”. Barth, who had to pay homage to his opponent at the end of the show, did so firmly: “I had absolutely no chance against you”, the Berliner said to his opponent at the end of an extremely complex but excessively long and largely uncomfortable transmission.