Comedian Simon Pearce: With humor against hate. Simon Pearce, son of the German actress Christiane Blumhoff and the Nigerian Charles Pearce.

He is now on the road with his third solo “Hybrid”. “Humor is my defense” is also the title of a portrait of the artist from the “Lines of Life’ series, which BR television is showing today at 10 p.m. “I made jokes about myself before the others could make jokes about me,” says the 42-year-old.