Harald Glööckler on “TV total – But with a guest”: missed penalty

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He is currently one of the celebrities with the greatest meme potential: his jury contributions to the casting show “My Style Rocks,” in which he folds up the candidates in the style of an authoritarian teacher from the 1950s, are cult in schoolyards and videos of them are becoming popular Streamed hundreds of thousands of times.

No question: Sebastian Pufpaff invited a currently in-demand celebrity for the fourth edition of his new format “TV total – But with a guest”, which runs on Monday evening at prime time. One who has a lot of comic potential with his eccentric performances. Harald Glööckler seems tailor-made for a format that thrives on playing the best moments over and over again in the form of short snippets to amuse the audience.

Glööckler and “TV total” – that’s actually a match made in heaven. Or to put it in football language: the ball was on the penalty spot. To put it bluntly: Pufpaff missed the penalty.

It started off quite promisingly. In the clip, the 59-year-old was introduced as a man whose “fingernails are longer than the traffic jams in North Rhine-Westphalia” and as “wallpaper that has come to life”. Unfortunately, that was the funniest thing the show had to offer.

Pufpaff opened a bottle of rosé sparkling wine for his guest, who was carried into the studio in a sedan chair, but then quickly turned the conversation to the chocolate fountain that had been specially set up in the studio. Glööckler took advantage of the ball and started a dirty talk by asking whether the meatballs on the table should be dipped into the chocolate fountain.

A sexual innuendo that Pufpaff countered gratefully: “I haven’t put a meatball in the chocolate fountain yet, it almost sounds sexual. How about you?” Harald Glööckler immediately picked up on this. “I put other things in the chocolate fountain,” the designer replied. “You know, chocolate bananas to suck on.”

Anyone who expected Sebastian Pufpaff to get tough on his guest – like Harald Schmidt and Herbert Feuerstein once did in “Schmidteinander” – was disappointed. The comedian obviously didn’t want to stop other guests from visiting his new show format.

And so a harmless chat ensued in which Glööckler was first asked textbook questions, then there was a clip in which people on the street were asked about the guest before the two main actors competed against each other in teleshopping.

Then 70 minutes went by without there being any reason to laugh. This is a sad finding for any comedy show. Considering who Pufpaff was hosting, it’s a devastating verdict.