Wigald Boning and Hannes Ringlstetter, two comedians, are astonished by the humor of Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder (CSU).
“Söder is already a quirky contemporary” Boning told the weekly Die Zeit. But he admires “the consistency, the tree-hugging, the doner, and the fact that he thinks he has to defend the craving for meat against green vegans.” That’s a “panorama of peculiarity, like at a fairground.” If this behavior helps to keep the political right clean, “then I would support him” Boning said.
Hannes Ringlstetter said, “I’ve written so many gags, and Söder has topped them off almost in the next hour.” Not in terms of wit, but in terms of peculiarity. “Just this kneeling in Poland and now the Christmas song, you can’t come up with that.”
When asked if he wasn’t worried that Söder was developing into a competitor in the cabaret, Ringlstetter replied, “Why? I believe populism is the opposite of comedy and cabaret.” Nevertheless, the Bavarian comedian regrets the decision in the Union for Friedrich Merz as a chancellor candidate: “I would have found Söder a good candidate for chancellor. It’s high time for something to happen, to see what then happens.” Maybe it would move the whole country forward, “or it would leave the whole country in ruins.