I think Henning is brilliant. Saw him in South London and bought his DVD - "A Thousand Years Of German Humour". Got his card and hired him for a gig after a software development conference, and he actually came to the conference during the day and participated in some of the sessions. A very nice guy, too.

Michael Wootton

8y↑204

'Yeah, because that joke is all about timing' deserved a ton more laughter.

Moesel83

7y↑2

Yeah that was the best one.

Ririko

I haven’t realised this before but his stand ups are very political! People need to know their history 😂

Dave Jackson

2y↑3

@Ririko it's also very intelligent stand-up

Timon Myside

6y↑11

Almost ten years later this is still the finest explanation of "timing" in comedy.

SuperNoX86

5y↑7

Henning Wehn needs to be on QI a lot more. I love this guy so much!

blustulagu

He has evolved so much. He is brilliant now, even here you can see his insight and intelligent references. Early days and glad Stewart brought him on

UglyHarris

13y↑2

I can't believe people aren't laughing at the joke he does at the end, brilliant timing!

Mark Pointer

6y↑106

“....that we Germans don’t have a sense of humour. I don’t find that funny.” 😂 That was genious...

tomgrant29

5y↑4

Considering it's the Stewart Lee audience I can't believe it didn't get more of a laugh, I was nearly crying

D Money

4y↑2

Mark Pointer ... genius is pushing it, also the irony of you spelling the word genius wrong tickled me lol more than the joke if I’m honest

Cute Pumpkin

Henning could say anything and I’d still think it’s adorable lol. He’s very endearing.

Robert Green

9y↑67

one of my absolute favourite comedians at the moment! i'm blitzing through what little henning has available online.

2RedUmbrellas

9y↑14

Love the way you phrased that.

Robert Green

9y↑18

oh no...

Brian Russel

(guest) Hi,Robert. I wonder if you can help me, I am trying to find a recording by Henning where he is describing all the different types of Austrian (?) cakes , E.G., ".....mit marmalade, oder ohne marmalade...", etc., many combinations of ingredients, sounded very funny : it was on a BBC radio show.....any ideas please? Many thanks if you can help. Happy New Year 2016 !

mystruggle

8y↑1

+Robert Green cos most people don't understand it lol hahaha

Andrew Owens

He's brilliant! I listen to "the unbelievable truth" when I go to sleep at night mainly for him. He's just so good.

Chris

11y↑8

That has got to be the best closing line ever - "Hence......it's a joke."

Gabriel Morton

3y↑7

I think the British audience was confused that a non-Brit could have such an acutely dry and witty sense of humor.

Athers

2y↑5

He's too sharp for the crowd.

pantsonhisheadkid

14y↑2

Just saw him do a full 25min set supporting Stewart Lee on his tour. Really funny.

pablohanc

7y↑11

Seen Henning on many programs. Very funny guy.

Jack

10y↑81

Tough crowd. At least there was a modicum of laughter.

Johnny N

10y↑5

After Stewart Lee, I'd be asleep too. Love Henning

FarmerMayhem

8y↑35

+Johnny N I'm not sure you understand the concept of a warm-up act.

Howard McKeown

tough crowd? tough comedian to laugh at

Raskul X

2y↑2

Agreed Jack, I laughed out loud. But each to their own. I love Henning some hate him. As long as enough people appreciate him so that he keeps going, it's all gravy :)

Kay Robertson

8y↑2

Bloody love Henning!he so funny 😂❤️

Oli Omphalos

4y↑18

Seriously though, I would've thought that more of Stewart Lee's crowd would get the Austria-Hungary joke.

LondonSpade

2y↑3

I got the joke but I didn't audibly laugh, just expelled more air than usual out of my nose.

Dave Jackson

2y↑3

I just don't think its a belly laugh sort of joke. I think a fair few got it

jamespfp

10y↑29

Timing is the secret of comedy - brilliant bit of visual humor with the stopwatch. :D

jamespfp

10y↑3

LULZ... ya, IKR? I gotz no excuze neither, 'cuz I'm in Canadada, eh?

Apocrypha

5y↑6

Stuart Lee introduces the only comedian who's act he's yet to vilify.

Daedalus 1349

3y↑1

Whose*

highdownmartin

If it was Russell Wehn then he’d better watch out.

mrdbzfann

11y

Cannot wait for The Alternate Comedy Experience tonight with Stewart Lee on Comedy Central. Its going to be brilliant.

Bill Kingston

Love his humour

Colin Smith

14y

I too saw this show last night and like Thom2509 I found him very funny. His comedy was very clever in a very sideways kind of way, and you had to see through the stuff that offend some. The stuff about Rhys Jones and the McCann's was what a lot of us think behind closed doors, he just had the balls to say it. Also if you go to events like this don't be surprised when you get offended it ain't TV

Ralph Zimmermann

50w

"hence its a joke" such a good closing line.

steve hewitt

12y

He is fantastic on Fighting Talk !!

Andrew Austin

3y↑4

Henning gave it to them straight, like a pear schnapps that’s made from 100% pear

AN4L Leakage

10y↑41

Ahahah, seriously underrated comic

Paul Revere

7y↑1

Tough crowd, but he's good...😎

xexdx

14y

saw henning support sewart lee last night and two people stormed out the room. he starts off slow and mild but the end of his set was shocking to a lot of people

dont ask me

Robbie Williams must have brought a friend that night.

Skulls Ain't Dead

8y↑33

He's good! But he needs more time for the audience to understand his humor, it's all quite tongue-in-cheek, plays on words, and clearly half the audience just doesn't get it within the 5 mins. And I liked the timer, that was cute and very 'German', plus all the 'hence why it's funny' historical jokes too. He'd do better with more like 10-15 mins. Pity that these guys have so little time to make an impression, often at the start of the night, when the audience isn't yet 'warmed-up'.

Akhorahil

4y↑2

I wouldn't blame the audience. This was a cold open. He's not doing a set. He's doing 5-10 minutes of new material with no real order to it. His job is to get people to pay attention to him and get in the mood to laugh, that's all. He's actually not supposed to kill.

Jordon Hewitt

11y↑15

You're so right! I long for American humour in my life. My favourite jokes are these sort: My mom is from France and my dad is from Spain, so when I see a baguette, I don't know whether to eat it, or shove it up my ass! Gets me every time!

JohnnyZenith

6y↑1

Jordon Hewitt Lol.

McPrfctday

11y

So all the stuff he says about the work ethic is absolutely true! Cool.

em diar

7y↑75

Lee and Henning... I remember them. The little one's developed an accent.

Dan Youtube

Good one :)

tas

14y

@xexdx I was there as well. I personally found the shocking stuff very thought provoking, but I can see how people could find it hugely offensive. Also, the old man who shouted "You're losing your audience, you idiot!" was hilarious.

Conner Thacker

11y

Just seen him on would I lie to you he was hilarious, does he have a DVD? Not sure whether he's all persona or actually like that haha

Alex White

14y↑1

love this guy on fighting talk- why did my grandfather cross the road? to occupy france. classic

Jordon Hewitt

11y

I haven’t got any hard evidence of it but I trust Stewart Lee on these matters.

mmmbeachlover

I like this guy on tv and just checked his gig list.

...watching this has just saved me 16 quid.

meriel

my two favourite comedians :)

Darren Stephens

13y↑1

He's great: intelligent and funny. I'll have to find out where he doing near me so I can check him out at length

drjamespotter

The Austria Hungary football joke was made earlier by the head of the Hapsburg family in a TV interview. Now that was funny!

BaronVonPenguin

That was GENIUS 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

andrew moonbeam

4y↑1

Lee and Henning. Eleven years that took.

Thunder Chunky

12y

He walks around in the exact same manner as Jools Holland, although with less 'gesturing over the shoulder'.

Tavis Hurn

9y↑85

My wife told the Austria-Hungary joke to her friends. None of them got it. Sad face.

stawp

Lol

snowangeliquexx

I don't get it????

Rob Martel

snowangeliquexx they used to be part of the same country/empire.

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holm81

14y

This guy is fresh as fuck! Original. But I wouldn't misstrust Lee's sence of humor..

mrkristoff

11y

Brilliant stuff, glad I've just found this :) I'm glad the first German comedian I've heard of in the UK isn't some idiot

Erwann Kermanac'h

8y↑62

Poor lady at the front hadn't a clue what was going on.

Trev Moran

7y↑3

A lot of people saying "tough crowd", but honestly, he's done better. It all seemed like B-material. I doubt I'd have laughed much if I were there like.

Iason Kostellenos

you can definitely tell his delivery got better after being more experienced, which is quite common for comics

cyberjack-CJ

how he got a career out of this ill never know ...lol ... glad he improved

Steve Morris

What a breath of fresh luft after the introduction by the achingly-dull Stewart Lee.

JimmersThomas

14y

haha,. me too. At HFC? Weird choice of warm-up act though - half an hour of jokes about (among other things) Madelaine McCann and Rhy Jones, followed by Lee's act which included a long section about why it's not funny to mock a blind child.

sarcasmo57

4y↑2

Now there's a joke you could set a watch to.

JimmersThomas

14y↑1

Yeah, but what's the difference between Henning Wehn making fun of Rhys Jones' death, and Clarkson's style of "homour"? It's a weird conflict where so much of Lee's act revolves around saying it's not cool to attack and bully soft targets and justify it with the "it's just a joke" defence, when that's exactly what a lot of this dude's act was. It's not enough to just say "it's ok, he's one of ours" - it's either ok or it's not.

chris4072511

When you had to explain who Henning Wehn was.

Skuffy

Ten years on, Henning Wehn is much better and more popular comedian than Stewart Lee.

The Garden of Fragile Egos

Great build up

Pie Life

Most English people dost speak English as a first language. Myself included my mother tongue is Mancunian and eat Lancashire . Love Henning .

Darren Longhorn

3y↑2

Surely everyone knows that the Austro-Hungarian Empire never had a single national side, but separate Austrian and Hungarian teams?

Sam Joshi

And you must be our resident German?

Darren Longhorn

@Sam Joshi nein.

Warren Leming

6y↑1

stand up and a joke on the Austro Hungarian dual monarchy....only on youtube via Stewart lee...incomprable und ich bin auch mit dieser Kerl begeistert er turnt mich an...wirklich!

Eli Cohen

Robert, were you England’s goalie v USA ?

clickaccept

I'm so glad the days past of us laughing at ourselves was subverted to mean "take your aim, foreigners, we'll pay you and laugh", is subverted once again, to mean, "take your aim foreigners, our cultural confidence is sufficient that we can laugh. Go back to Germany and defend your boarders though. Your country needs you :)

Quentinsama

13y↑3

@nyc999 I dunno I like the Austrian joke because the punch line is obvious and immediatelt after the joke he explains it as funny by pointing to a different punchline.

Matthew McVeagh

10y↑2

I got it, in fact I understood the joke as soon as his 'second person' said "Austria Hungary".

seabazzz

11y↑7

i only know one: My grandfather died in a concentration camp. he fell of the watchtower cause he was too drunk...

L3TH4L1TY

6y↑8

Depressing how that Austria-Hungary line went over so many heads

whade62000

5y↑1

You can say Henning Wehn’s name by clearing your throat

Cameron Philips

Stewart Lee breaks wind at 55 seconds

Paul Scotney

Fantastic bloke

Sean Baron

13y

I got that joke on the sketch !

2QIK4U GAMES - (2QIK4U)

1 minute 30 seconds of Jolliness is so Colonel Klink XD

matafuko

11y

If the comedy club he went into was the Hellfire Comedy Club in Wycombe town hall - he's right. I went to uni in Wycombe and I don't think I ever saw a funny comedian in that comedy club. Russel Howard used to MC it quite often.

TC Candler

6y↑40

Henning Wehn has let himself go.

MyMindIsABlank1

Steve Bannon in the audience at the end of the sketch

Dlo_brown

Ambassador you are funny

Milijango

12y↑2

Nothing worse than a terminally thick audience...

Dylan Parker

10y↑1

genius

HmR91

11y

hahaha. best thing that tooting-german accent.

synchc

0:54 Mr Lee does a little fart. But it was only a really tiny fart, like the kind of fart a vole might do. Or Anna Friel.

CoRRupTioN1986

11y↑1

At 0:55 does anyone else hear what sounds like a quiet fart?

Zuitman

13y

Fuck this guy is brilliant.

Shaun Rawding

8y↑15

What an awful crowd. I'd find it so demoralising...

Shinta Fukuda

Rasputin, Rasputin, the peasants are revolting!

-- I know.

ZACK PALMER

@Shinta Fukuda wtf?

Ed Poe

12y↑24

Not a great audience to perform to....that Austria-Hungary joke was far too subtle for them

Akhorahil

4y↑3

He's doing a cold open, as explained by Stewart Lee. He's not too concerned about if the joke plays for the audience or not. He's doing a set. He's basically got to come up with a new 10 minutes of material on a daily basis. So a lot of jokes arn't refined in the slightest or have any foundation. They are just thrown at the audience blindly.

specialpatrolgroup92

8y↑13

The British say German's don't have a sense of humour. I don't find that funny XD

PeteLewis1917

13y

Henning Wehn was invented by Jesus

Aboe Bobington

"...one at a time...", made me laugh... albeit amidst the silence of a non-responsive audience. Ahh... nvm.

Ken Mills

8y↑67

Some good jokes wasted on the uneducated.

hitlermugabetashtwin

5y↑3

Calm down Ken.

gbwildlife uk

Oh you were there then.

Collector Duck

@joepusey1 why would you intentionally label yourself low class?

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J Smith

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel has let himself go.

ArcanePath360

11y↑1

I'd love to live in Germany. Where things work. Including a modem that DOESN'T KEEP DROPPING OUT SO I CAN'T POST THIS COMMENT!!!

John Hirst

Is that Steve Bannon in the audience at 4:55?

Bang Ting Ow

Why does he always have that clock with him?

Andrew JS

4y↑2

"Comedy timing".

bazzi b

6y↑3

Sid the sloth from ice age has let himself go.

SirKnobofCheese

13y

Henning Wehn is better then Stewart Lee

albedoshader

13y

@ignoranttwat: Great! Exactly what I thought, too.

Chris Colabella

Commander Data's let himself go.

Carol

13y↑1

4:07 Needs to brush up on her history.

BR1010

12y

@CozImMrBrightside Awesome joke aside, next time be considerate and try not to post a spoiler

Leo from Freo

Hello BBC, please have a space between the - and the words around it otherwise it looks like he's Mr Wehn-Stand. Got it?

Robert Peston

10y

hahaha

Beechgoose 1

2y↑1

Dings eyes are really far apart. Don't think it's a tough crowd, IMO...it's just not that funny, the last one.

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