Worst. German. Ever.

The New Zealand comedy festival is in full force, and, enticed only by the title, we decided that we would go and see Worst. German. Ever. This is a show by London-living German comedian Paco Erhard, in which he details all the problems about being German in the modern world. Amongst his many gripes are Berlin's hipsters ("like Cuba Street with snow!"), a bigger drain on the German purse than Southern European members of the Euro, apparently. It was whilst delivering his show in Germany that a woman stormed out, declaring him the "worst German ever!", thus giving him the title for his show. "There's some competition for that title, you know, historically" is his comeback. He then told us why Germans are so good at maths and engineering (because they don't want to study history), and how the teaching of the Holocaust at school was possibly overdone. "I know so much about the Holocaust that I could organise one myself! That surely wasn't the point of all that education?"

A very funny hour's worth of comedy, and we left with tears streaming down our faces. Go and see him if you get the chance.