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Luke Mockridge wants to return to the stage at Sat.1
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Luke Mockridge will be back as a comedian in a Sat.1 show in early 2023.
This emerges from a press release from the broadcaster.
According to this, he appears with eleven other comedians in the show "Die Beste Comedians Deutschlands", the other line-up includes Chris Tall, Dieter Nuhr and Kaya Yanar.
The show will be recorded in front of a live audience in October as part of the Cologne Comedy Festival.
In 2021, SPIEGEL published research into allegations by several women who said he had harassed them.
His ex-girlfriend Ines Anioli accused him of raping her.
Mockridge denies all allegations, the investigation into the allegation of rape was discontinued due to a lack of sufficient suspicion, because in the end there was testimony against testimony.
Mockridge's lawyer had initially sued the Cologne Regional Court against the reporting.
According to the verdict, four sentences had to be deleted, but overall the court rated the reporting as permissible.
The Hamburg district court was different, where Mockridge next complained: the judges demanded the deletion of central parts because it was about inadmissible suspicion reporting.
SPIEGEL has appealed against the ban.
That year, Mockridge returned with a stage tour that, by its own admission, was mostly sold out.
He had to cancel the last appointments because of a corona disease.
So now the attempt at a television comeback.
When asked by SPIEGEL, Sat.1 spokesman Christoph Körfer said: "In 'The best comedians in Germany', Germany's most successful stand-up comedians present the best excerpts from their current live programs.
Luke Mockridge is one of Germany's most successful stand-up comedians - and that's why he's part of it." Beyond that, there are no other current plans for a new show with him on Sat.1.
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