“Till Tonight” with Till Reiners on ZDF
Late night show with “fresh perspectives”
Till Reiners starts with “Till Tonight” his first own late night show on ZDF. “Sometimes easy, sometimes strange, sometimes serious,” said the comedian.
With “Till Tonight” the ZDF starts its summer late night with Till Reiners (40) on June 20. In the next two months, the Duisburg comedian ends every Friday evening from 11 p.m. a week, from 8 p.m. the new episode can be called up in the ZDF media library. In an interview with the news agency Spot on News, Reiners promises a “relaxed summer late night that looks like a pleasant get-together with good friends”.
In addition, Reiners talks about his late night role models, the important role of humor in difficult times and reveals why he prefers to keep private stories to himself despite personal note.
Mr. Reiners, your first own late night show starts, what are you most looking forward to?
Till Reiners: I am looking forward to a relaxed summer late night with the audience, which looks like a pleasant get-together with good friends-sometimes easy, sometimes strange, sometimes serious. It is not about dissecting messages, but humorously reflecting the current events with my perspective. We do not want to reinvent the wheel, but bring fresh perspectives and our own tone into the late night. And of course with the firm resolution: entertain, with attitude – but never instructive. I am particularly looking forward to the moment when all the ideas become a living show.
The current world events are often not exactly fun. How important do you find it still humorous to talk about it?
Reiners: Extremely important. Humor helps to classify things and process together – whether it is broken marriages, dilapidated bridges or the grand coalition. It is comforting to come together in the evening and to laugh about the same absurd things and to say: “Great, what was going on?”
Are there topics that don’t treat you humorous? Where do you pull the border?
Reiners: The border is reached when it is not funny. Most people have a fine sense of whether you are stepping down, and that’s just not funny.
And where do you draw the border between personally and to private?
Reiners: I tell a lot of personal things that happened to me on the way to the studio or how I feel. But I will usually let out my private environment. They are not comedians and shouldn’t get the feeling: “If I tell Till that, I see the story afterwards on TV.” The personal is more attitude than privacy.
Are there late night shows and moderators that have shaped you particularly?
Reiners: Yes, absolutely: Hape Kerkeling and Josef Hader – my humor is moving between these two poles. When I was in New York, I looked at shows on site and was very impressed by “Late Night with Seth Meyers”. And of course Harald Schmidt – especially in the Sat.1 years – also influenced me and formats such as “Late Night Berlin”.
You are also successful on YouTube with the “wrong but funny” format. Is comedy different for the Internet than for television?
Reiners: Yes, totally. Everything is faster online, more direct, sometimes more merciless. On TV we have more means for games or structures in the studio. We reach into the “true life”, for example through very funny players for which we shot for days. You can see the best of this time with us. But in the end the same counts in both worlds: is it funny or interesting? And do you feel like staying about it?
In summer with “Till Tonight” they belong on Friday evening on ZDF. What does the perfect summer evening look like for you?
Reiners: slightly tipsy, with good friends and exciting people you meet. Outside good conversations have pleasant temperatures. And then at some point the realization: “Oh, gets bright again.”
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Source: Stern
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