“The King of Grownups” on RTL with Chris Tall, Mario Barth, Oliver Pocher

The following five problems became evident in the first of four episodes of the RTL show “King of the Kids” with Mario Barth, Oliver Pocher and Chris Tall.

1. The concept was badly copied and crookedly welded together

If you could use the worn-out joke pattern just one last, really the last time in human history, you would have “ordered something on Wish” – here the pre-punched gag would have been well erased and with its consummate ambition it would also go well with the attitude of the baby’s head. The coronation harmonizes. The “King of the Grownups” is a loveless rerun of “Schlag den Star” with joko and classy clips: in each episode, two of the comedians compete in eight games plus the final, the third – in the opening sequence Oliver Pocher – moderates, this constellation, in turn, recalls the three-way battle Gottschalk-Jauch-Schöneberger “Because they don’t know what they’re doing.” So the format is not original, but also technically weak: many games have become boring because they were programmed over too many rounds They have been preceded by unnecessary and animated explanatory films, although most of them are so simple that a simple sentence of the moderator. With Elmar Paulke, there was theoretically a commentator who, however, almost exclusively announced the contest before each commercial break. And there have been a lot of commercial breaks because this show is as long as life. Could another show last just under two hours, please?

2. The “enough” attitude of the protagonists

Mario Barth wore a t-shirt that said “Corona is an asshole”, and this was more or less the level of originality that everyone involved had about themselves. Maybe you have exaggerated claims, but from a show featuring three professional comedians you would really expect someone to say something funny or at least actively try to joke, if the games themselves aren’t particularly funny. It’s a strange combination of drunken ambition that seemed to encourage the mistaken belief that just appearing was enough, and if it had to be, quickly laugh at stripy bacon again, what could be more fun, it sounded something like this:

Mario Barth: How much do you weigh?

Chris Tall: 79.

Barth: Huh.

Also from the point of view of the concept it seems that the titles of the games are already sold out, all promising puns on well-known programs. When “Look What Hammers Are” had to semi-amusingly guess which object was being destroyed in a reversed movie, “Bauer sucht Sau” was actually just a literal game of hide and seek on a farm where Barth had the trunk of a pig and The high pig’s ears were tied together. Unfortunately, no one grunted.

3. The games don’t work

In »I’m a Star, Push Me Out of Here«, a push-away game with a rolling partition, Chris Tall had an advantage simply because of his body mass, in another game Barth probably won too because his figure leaner gave him more balance in a push-down -Ramp had. With “The Masked Kottchen” you could guess celebrities wearing a classic Tall and Barth swaying animal costume asking questions – sadly the distorted voices the mascots respond with were hard to understand. Does it actually still pass as a loving quote if you try to parody another Pro7 format within a copied Pro7 format? The puzzles, which were largely limited to the triad “Are you a man?”, “Do you have your show?” And “Are you a cook?”, They were not accordingly ambitious. The costumes were composed of people like Horst Lichter, Jasmin Wagner and Guido Cantz (who, also a friend of the minimal idea, appeared in the “Fuck the Virus” t-shirt). Of course it is also significant that neither Barth nor Tall could think of a name when they got so far in a question and answer session that a woman had to be in a banana costume that she once won a comedy award. Carolin Kebekus could already rule them out, who should this seemingly funny woman be? Maybe Gaby Köster, the Barth oracle, then silence.

Even the karaoke game »Shit-Giganten«, actually a safe bet, was spoiled by the announcement that Tall and Barth had received in advance a list of the 50 hits of the 90s, from which one selected at random The selection should be sung. So this was a previous learning game, more fun would have been the question of which of the really famous titles was still on my mind anyway. But the game still had a completely different problem, namely:

4. Andreas Gabalier

As a musical guest, he sang the songs on which Tall and Barth should have trilled and, with timeless dismay, sang “Men are pigs”, “Sex bombs” and “Everything is just stolen” (which in view of the generous channel service that evening was at least unintentionally a little fun), then »Everyone«. His girlfriend was a huge fan of the Backstreet Boys, Mario Barth said, and you immediately thought, oh dear, there you have it, now he falls into his routine for bags, shoes and not being able to park, and then he bites then freezes. like a terrier who has nothing left to lose and no one can get out of, but luckily he left him with this little threatening gesture. In return, Gabalier later gave a performance from her current Christmas album, in which her tentative reproduction attempts were very reminiscent of the doll’s lip movements from the show “Pretty in Plush”, which had just been suppressed. And finally, it remains to be seen whether “Coming Home for Christmas” is really the best chosen title for the current situation.