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This improvised live talk show hosted by Berlin’s funniest women is coming to English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center for a one-time engagement!

Don’t miss it as these seven unscripted comedians from six different countries take the stage to improvise about topics close to their hearts and dish out life advice on all things necessary.

Same outrageous cast. Same hilarious show. This time in a bigger venue with more prizes.

Comedians: Andrea Björk Andresdottir, Antonia Bär, Caroline Clifford, Matilde Keizer, Marisa Llamas, Janina Rook, Nicole Ratjen

GLB – Improv Comedy

GLB bring their show to the ETB | IPAC stage for a behemoth evening of improvised scenes weaved together with incomparable timing and gut-wrenching laughter.

 

Plus, they’re bringing some of their friends along!

 

Pretty much anything can happen, and it’s all made up before your very eyes by some of the best improvisers this city has to offer.

 

GLB is Berlin’s longest running English-language longform improv team. They perform every 1st & 3rd Friday at the Comedy Café Berlin. Formed in 2013 as Good Luck, Barbara, GLB is one of the first teams to bring North American-style longform improv to the German Hauptstadt, and has been performing continuously since then – from claustrophobic basement bars to ETB | IPAC here in Berlin, and the massive Del Close Marathon in New York City and SlapDash in London. GLB members teach improv through The CCB Training School and have trained a new generation of fantastic improvisers right here in Berlin. They are Nicole Ratjen, Josh Telson and Noah Telson.

 

Daniel-Ryan Spaulding

UPDATE: An important note to all guests planning to attend the Daniel-Ryan Spaulding performances on October 11 and 12: we are selling 150 tickets for each performance via our online box office. All guests who purchase tickets from this online contingent are guaranteed seats on chairs and we will sell an additional 20 – 30 seats on cushions on the floor at the door. We heavily encourage all guests to secure their tickets now.

Because you demanded it: Daniel-ryan spaulding returns to ETB | IPAC for his last performances with us this year after a series of sold-out shows!

two nights only!

Daniel-Ryan is an internationally touring Croatian-Canadian stand-up comedian who has performed in over 45 countries worldwide and is the star of the recent hit video series about a hipster expat It’s Berlin!

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Expect a solid hour of sharp, hilarious, sassy, brutal stand-up about expat life, Eurotrash, sex, Yugoslavia, culture, nostalgia, the Dutch and, of course, Berlin!

“Daniel shines when engaged in storytelling, timing his humour well in an admirably relaxed fashion, while his mannerisms and confrontational attitude entertain, as he lets his inner frustrations spill out into hilarious and, at time, brutal anecdotes. Daniel’s combination of camp enthusiasm and fearless outspokenness serve to create a very entertaining show.”
– **** Three Weeks (UK)
“Brilliant, hilarious subversion” – Huffington Post
“Intelligent, and above all very funny. His material is tight. His delivery is strong, and his timing is perfect.” **** Scotsgay Magazine

Watch Daniel-Ryan Spaulding’s viral hit (over 2 million views) on YouTube:

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Daniel-Ryan Spaulding

Because you demanded it: Daniel-ryan spaulding returns to ETB | IPAC following his two completely sold-out shows in June and August! These will be Daniel-Ryan’s last shows in Berlin in 2018 – two nights only!

Daniel-Ryan is an internationally touring Croatian-Canadian stand-up comedian who has performed in over 45 countries worldwide and is the star of the recent hit video series about a hipster expat It’s Berlin!

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Expect a solid hour of sharp, hilarious, sassy, brutal stand-up about expat life, Eurotrash, sex, Yugoslavia, culture, nostalgia, the Dutch and, of course, Berlin!

“Daniel shines when engaged in storytelling, timing his humour well in an admirably relaxed fashion, while his mannerisms and confrontational attitude entertain, as he lets his inner frustrations spill out into hilarious and, at time, brutal anecdotes. Daniel’s combination of camp enthusiasm and fearless outspokenness serve to create a very entertaining show.”
– **** Three Weeks (UK)
“Brilliant, hilarious subversion” – Huffington Post
“Intelligent, and above all very funny. His material is tight. His delivery is strong, and his timing is perfect.” **** Scotsgay Magazine

Watch Daniel-Ryan Spaulding’s viral hit (over 2 million views) on YouTube:

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Daniel-Ryan Spaulding

Because you demanded it: Daniel-ryan spaulding returns to ETB | IPAC following his completely sold-out evening in June!

Daniel-Ryan is an internationally touring Croatian-Canadian stand-up comedian who has performed in over 45 countries worldwide and is the star of the recent hit video series about a hipster expat It’s Berlin!

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Expect a solid hour of sharp, hilarious, sassy, brutal stand-up about expat life, Eurotrash, sex, Yugoslavia, culture, nostalgia, the Dutch and, of course, Berlin!

“Daniel shines when engaged in storytelling, timing his humour well in an admirably relaxed fashion, while his mannerisms and confrontational attitude entertain, as he lets his inner frustrations spill out into hilarious and, at time, brutal anecdotes. Daniel’s combination of camp enthusiasm and fearless outspokenness serve to create a very entertaining show.”
– **** Three Weeks (UK)
“Brilliant, hilarious subversion” – Huffington Post
“Intelligent, and above all very funny. His material is tight. His delivery is strong, and his timing is perfect.” **** Scotsgay Magazine

Watch Daniel-Ryan Spaulding’s viral hit (over 2 million views) on YouTube:

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Daniel-Ryan Spaulding

Is an internationally touring Croatian-Canadian stand-up comedian who has performed in over 45 countries worldwide and the star of the recent hit video series about a hipster expat It’s Berlin!

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Expect a solid hour of sharp, hilarious, sassy, brutal stand-up about expat life, Eurotrash, sex, Yugoslavia, culture, nostalgia, the Dutch and, of course, Berlin!

“Daniel shines when engaged in storytelling, timing his humour well in an admirably relaxed fashion, while his mannerisms and confrontational attitude entertain, as he lets his inner frustrations spill out into hilarious and, at time, brutal anecdotes. Daniel’s combination of camp enthusiasm and fearless outspokenness serve to create a very entertaining show.”
– **** Three Weeks (UK)

 

“Brilliant, hilarious subversion” – Huffington Post
“Intelligent, and above all very funny. His material is tight. His delivery is strong, and his timing is perfect.” **** Scotsgay Magazine

 

We are very excited to invite him back to ETB | IPAC for his second solo show following his legendary headlining appearances in our International Comedy Showcase in 2014 and 2015 and his first solo performance in 2017!

Watch Daniel-Ryan Spaulding’s viral hit (over 2 million views) on YouTube:

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Clever

CLEVER. The live comedy panel game show with Berlin’s funniest comedians!

Covering a wide range of games, puzzles and topics, this is Berlin’s best and only live game show. Be it astrophysics, history, geography or sports, local heroes from the lands of improv and stand-up comedy will be put to the test. Hosted by Canada’s Lee White (Crumbs), he challenges the comical combatants to prove who’s the cleverest. A correct answer will get you points… unless someone gives a funnier one. At the end of the day, being the smartest or funniest isn’t enough: in this exhilarating, interactive comedy quiz you have to be CLEVER to win!

CLEVER. The game show where the audience always wins laughs.

Featuring contestants Christoph Jungmann (Germany), Nicole Ratjen (Canada), Rene Dellefont (USA) with Amy Jane (New Zealand) in the judge’s chair!

Check out some excerpts from the last iteration of CLEVER from July 2017!

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Rene Dellefont is an actor, improviser and DJ from Atlanta GA. He is the current artistic director of Highwire Comedy Co.. Berlin is one of his favorite cities in the world.

Nicole Ratjen started improv at an early age at the Canadian Improv games and never stopped. As a clown and improvisor she has toured on productions across Canada, Europe and Australia. She is one of the idiots in the Bloody Bawdy Villains and can been seen performing regularly with Goodluck, Barbara, Comedysportz and It’s that Time of the Month in Berlin and most recently she was accepted to the roster as a clown for Cirque du Soleil.

Christoph Jungmann is an improviser and artistic director of IMPRO, the annual festival for improvised theater, organized by Die Gorillas. He can be seen at the Mehringhoftheater and the Theater am Kurfürstedamm as Angela Merkel, when he is MCing the famous Jahresrückblick. He also works as a film and television actor.

Amy Jane is a New Zealand-born, Berlin-based actor and improviser. She featured on the Kiwi TV show So You Think You’re Funny and has performed on stage at Comedy Café Berlin, BühnenRausch and English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center.

Lee White is Canadian-born but now living is in Berlin. He started acting at ten years old and by his mid-twenties was one of the leading improvisers in the world. Being one half of the infamous CRUMBS, he has traveled the world teaching and performing as well as an accomplished stand up and actor in various films and on television.

The Weird Show

The Weird Show is Berlin’s first and only eponymously titled English-language sketch comedy group and show. Or is it show… and group? Since 2016, they have been gracing the stages of Berlin and entertaining young, old and middle-aged alike with a rotating crew of writers and performers who have trained at UCB, Second City, Hive Improv and in at least two Berlin kitchens.

With 100% original, handwritten material and 63% jokes they stole from their parents, the latest The Weird Show performance integrates multimedia, music, dance and more than one scene set in a restaurant. After numerous appearances around Berlin, they will be bringing their weird show to the ETB | IPAC stage.

Mark your calendars and secure a ticket because you’re not going to want to miss a Tremendous Future to Believe In We’re Better Together Make It Great Again Big Moment for Us All.

 

 

Improv Comedy Showcase

Hosted by GLB (formerly known as Good Luck, Barbara), featuring Berlin’s favorite improv comedy teams and presenting the very best of English-language improv in the German capital.

Rollercoasters is Berlin’s first and only musical improv group. Formed in 2017, the international cast has played a number of sold-out shows at venues across Berlin. Inspired by an audience suggestion, they create a full-length narrative musical replete with improvised songs, masterful acting and top-class comedy.

Cat Video is a German-Australian improv comedy duo. Their style might best be described as grounded insanity. They enjoy a slow burn just as much as a quick laugh. Peter and Jakob combine depth and hilarity in their characters to create wonderfully strange moments out of thin air.

Photo by Mariana Feijó Fernandes

 

Merciless

Johnny Armstrong is a quick-fire one-liner comedian from England’s deep, dark North.

He is known for his unique brand of black humor delivered with a hefty portion of self-deprecation. A veteran of the London comedy circuit, he has taken Germany by storm with TV appearances and sold-out shows across the mainland. Many say that he has internalized the Monty Pythons, but it looks more like he’s eaten them.

Johnny has made quite a name for himself performing in German and we’re very excited to be able to present him performing in his native English!

Test your German and check out Johnny performing Ein dicker Hipster in Stuttgart:

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