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Michael Mittermeier 2018: "I don't know how often my humor got me into a shit storm."
Photo: Henning Kaiser / picture alliance / dpa
SPIEGEL:
Mr. Mittermeier, in your new book you joke about the corona pandemic.
Can you do that?
Mittermeier:
You can and you have to.
I don't tell jokes, I tell stories.
And there are a lot of really funny, weird, insane corona stories.
If someone is bothered by these stories, I can't help it either.
SPIEGEL:
The virus killed thousands of people in Germany alone.
Mittermeier:
It's not my job to make people sad.
My job is to make people forget the madness for a moment.
SPIEGEL:
It is often said that Corona is a burning glass for social grievances.
You write that in truth it is a shot glass.
Mittermeier:
Certainly Korinthenkackers will come and say that you shouldn't write as lightly as I about alcohol and drinking in lockdown.
Sure, there are many who have a problem with alcohol.
But I'm a comedian, not a scientist or a doctor.
People are happy to hear that everyday corona is just as insane for others as it is for themselves. It helps them.
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