About this season
Jan Böhmermann welcomes his viewers every Friday to his new late-night satire on ZDF and presents socially relevant topics, paired with wit and irony.
Episodes (14)
1. How Wikipedia is Politically Influenced
Aired 3 September 2021 • 30 min
What's on Wikipedia is considered "the truth." If you don't like that, you can let reality be changed where it's made: in the world's most important encyclopedia.
2. Siri, Sexbots & Robot Vacuum Cleaners
Aired 10 September 2021 • 30 min
Germans love technological innovations. ACTUALLY. But in reality, we fear a hostile takeover by autonomous robots that will steal our jobs and take over the world.
3. Car first, People second
Aired 17 September 2021 • 30 min
Germany, a country made for cars, not people! Because let's be honest: Cars are simply better people. Or have you ever had your heart broken by your city SUV? Probably not!
4. The Parties' dirty Facebook Tricks
Aired 24 September 2021 • 30 min
Ever heard of microtargeting? Facebook makes a lot of money from it, and ALL parties represented in the Bundestag use microtargeting on Facebook in their election campaigns.
5. State Funding for AfD Foundation
Aired 8 October 2021 • 30 min
We have good news and bad news: the AfD lost the federal election. BUT, thanks to a few million idiots, it can still enter the Bundestag for a second time and even win something.
6. Profiler - too true to be true
Aired 15 October 2021 • 30 min
True crime is EVERYWHERE! Besides Helene Fischer's new album, there's nothing hotter right now than mysterious stories about real crimes! True crime experts on TV are especially mysterious.
7. The new Moria
Aired 22 October 2021 • 30 min
Moria, the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, burned down a year ago! Afterward, everyone agreed: Something as inhumane as the Moria camp must not be allowed to exist again in Europe.
8. Lifestyle CBD: Expensive Products with no Effect
Aired 29 October 2021 • 30 min
Whether in mouth oil, bath bombs, dog shampoo, or lubricant – CBD is in everything, even though lifestyle CBD is to the body what the demands of Fridays For Future are to politics: It doesn't matter. Sorry to ruin the placebo effect for you again.
9. The Egg Throw of Halle - The Musical
Aired 5 November 2021 • 30 min
On May 10, 1991, angry demonstrators threw eggs at Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the market square in Halle an der Saale, prompting Kohl to promptly launch a brawl with the protesting East Germans. The ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE presents a gripping musical about unity, the power of revolution, and the power of love, centering on this now almost forgotten turning point in the relationship between East and West Germany.
10. The DVAG Pyramid System
Aired 12 November 2021 • 30 min
If your old schoolmate contacts you again after years, there are only two options: Either he finally wants his "Fast and Furious" DVD box set back, or he now works at Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG and wants to sell you 15 life insurance policies. What one in ten Germans, including your old schoolmate Sascha, does can't be wrong! Can it?
11. How Cancel Culture is destroying Springer
Aired 19 November 2021 • 30 min
Welcome to QUARTER TO WELKE – the talk show that's making headlines. Today, we're discussing sex, cabbage rolls, and the loss of power of the former media giant Axel Springer SE with five high-profile guests.
12. The Greens: Betrayal of their own Ideals
Aired 26 November 2021 • 30 min
Yesterday, knitting sweaters in the Bundestag, today climbing the career ladder. Compromises are necessary if you want to govern, and then the traffic light coalition will work. Or, dear Greens?
13. Driving without a Ticket: A Crime since 1935
Aired 3 December 2021 • 30 min
The German constitutional state is merciless and consistent! Whether it's theft, robbery, manslaughter, murder, or driving without a ticket.
14. How Facebook is destroying Democracies Worldwide
Aired 10 December 2021 • 30 min
Facebook is working with crazy fascists and burning down the democracies of the world.