Bas Birker

There you sit, with your test results. Turns out you belong to the smartest two percent of the population. And you haven't done a damn thing with it all these years. 'Blessed with a good set of brains,' they call that. But isn't it actually cursed? Because what use are brains if you can only use them to look back on all your stupid actions? In his latest comedy show, Bas Birker dives into the wonderful world under his skull. Because you can rely on your ratio for more than 40 years because you never learned anything else; when your feelings suddenly run away with you, you run into yourself so often and so hard that you can start a comedy duo with yourself. “Birker keeps tossing out jokes generously.” (De Standaard, ★★★★) And so Bas tells how a smart boy did stupid things. And why you are blessed with a simple view of the world and cursed if you think you know everything. Whether you belong to the great majority, or to that two percent. From the press: “Birker keeps tossing out jokes generously.” (De Standaard, ★★★★) “But that intelligence does ensure that he makes an oh-so-beautiful and refined, well-drawn show that absolutely makes you howl, but also makes you smile at the subtle insight with which he sends you home (…) Birker shows in his latest show why he is the top coach of just about the entire generation of fresh comedians.” (Knack Focus, ★★★★)