"Funniest Comedian HAPE KERKELING vs MICHAEL KESSLER"

Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (German pronunciation: ; born 9 December 1964) is a German comedian, TV presenter, author, and actor. At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band (Gesundfutter, meaning: health food) and published a record (Hawaii). Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German broadcasting companies, such as WDR and BR. His breakthrough came in 1984/85 when, still aged only 19, he got a role in the Känguru television comedy show (the German word for kangaroo deliberately spelt without an "h" at the end although this broke the spelling rules at that time). The best-known character in this show was the little boy Hannilein, played by Kerkeling, an irritating child with red hair in a pudding-basin style, dungarees and sitting on giant-sized chairs, who commented on the world of adults. Later came guest appearances and sketches on the Radio Bremen show Extratour. Then in 1989, Kerkeling started up his own comedy TV show, Total Normal (Totally Normal), along with pianist Achim Hagemann. This show, a satirical spoof on prime-time TV shows, had a totally new format and was awarded several television prizes such as the Goldene Kamera, the Adolf-Grimme-Preis and the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis. On the show, Kerkeling made television history on 25 April 1991 when he dressed up as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to Berlin and almost managed to get into Schloss Bellevue to meet the President of Germany for lunch. The satirical song from this show, Das ganze Leben ist ein Quiz (All life is a quiz), made it into the German pop charts. In 1992, Kerkeling's first film came out: Kein Pardon , which he directed and starred in, as well as helping to write the script. In 1992, Kerkeling turned down an offer by the big public broadcasting company ZDF to work on the popular prime-time show Wetten, dass..? and instead, without his previous partner Hagemann, moved to the independent television sector with the show Cheese. This was similar in concept to Total Normal and viewing figures were relatively high; still this is considered as his first flop.

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Michael Kessler (born 24 June 1967) is a German actor, comedian and author. Kessler had his acting training at the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum from 1988 to 1992. Afterwards he began acting roles at Schauspielhaus Bochum, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Schauspielhaus Zürich. Since 2005, he is starring alongside Christoph Maria Herbst, Bastian Pastewka and Jürgen Tonkel in the play Männerhort at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm theater in Berlin. In 1991, he appeared in the comedy film Manta, Manta and after that he acted in numerous big screen productions like Schtonk!, Little Sharks, and Nordkurve ("North Stand"). In 2006, he starred in Hui Buh – Das Schlossgespenst. In 2015, he starred in Schmidts Katze. From 1999 to 2000, Kessler was a cast member of Switch. From 2001 to 2002, he was part of the Wochenshow cast. Afterwards, he appeared on Axel!, Urmel aus dem Eis, Ladyland, and Pastewka. He became a regular on Schillerstraße since its first episode in 2004. Additionally, he took part in the game show Genial daneben and in ProSieben Märchenstunde ("ProSieben Fairy Tale Hour") in the episodes Rotkäppchen ("Little Red Riding Hood"), Froschkönig ("The Frog Prince") and Aschenputtel ("Cinderella"). Since October 2006, Kessler became the driver and host of RBB Fernsehen's Berliner Nacht Taxe ("Berlin Night Taxi"). "I want to have the unaltered stories of the night", he stated. "We're going to meet authentic people. That's no talk theater with cast actors." The series with six episodes was first broadcast on 30 October 2006 and aired every fortnight.

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