Florian Scheuba

Democracy, economy, environment, hope for a better future - everything is going down the drain. But who threw it in there? Can it be fished out again?

Florian Scheuba takes a seat on the bank in a Bachwatch mission, looking out for lifeguards and dark sewage channels, wondering if this stream has already become mainstream, and confronting rampant apocalyptic tendencies with the defiant construction of humor dams.

Many questions arise for him:

Should the "Yes, of course, piglet" become the Minister of Agriculture?

Does Donald Trump have a "kitchen cupboard problem" - a crack in the bowl, a loose screw, not all cups in the cupboard?

Do autocrats even need to pretend to tell the truth when they lie? And does the principle apply in perpetually neutral Austria: "One says this, another says that, we say: So-so..."? Is empathy, as Elon Musk claims, "the decisive weakness of Western civilization"?

Or has this civilization surrendered to people like Musk? Are we really better off when others are worse off? Is an asshole electable if it is "our asshole"? Can one still say everywhere nowadays that one can no longer say anything anywhere? And what is satire actually allowed to do?

Florian Scheuba counters the absurdities of the present with humor and proves that laughter is the best form of self-defense.