There are some who claim that you need a few beers in your fist for Helge Schneider to be funny, then there are others (like myself) who find this talented, hilarious comedian nothing less than a national treasure of Germany. Viel Spaß! (video copyright dpa)

Helge strikes again, this time with his mad jazz piano playing and an ode to that culinary magnificence that is the cheese sandwich!

It is the year 2016 and the sun has burnt up much of the planet Earth. Without water, people are struggling for bare survival. See this clip about director Tim Fehlbaum’s debut feature film, the apocalyptic vision of Hell. Da ist die Hölle los!

Henning May from the band AnnenMayKantereit sings a revamped version of their song "Tommi" together with singer-songwriter Ina Müller.

German singer/songwriter Herbert Grönemeyer has completed his 13th album Schiffsverkehr [Ship Traffic]. He presented it to journalists and friends on an hour-and-a-half long steamer cruise on the Spree River in Berlin. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

A blast from the past: With his single „Was soll das?" ("What's This All About?"), German musician Herbert Grönemeyer reached number three on the charts in 1988. Viel Spaß!

Herbert Grönemeyer is a German musician, music producer, singer, and actor. Here is the single "Mensch" from his album of the same name, which remains the best selling album in the history of German pop music.

Herbert Grönemeyer's song "Zeit, dass sich was dreht" was the official anthem for the 2006 World Cup hosted by Germany.

This song tells the story of a deaf girl who plays music at high volume because she can only enjoy it when she feels it in her stomach and the floor trembles. Her neighbors are less enthusiastic.

Yabla's very own Eva takes us on a nice stroll though an autumnal German park and fills us in on the best things about the German vocabulary for this time of year. Enjoy!

The heute-show is Germany's answer to The Daily Show in the US. In this episode, host Oliver Welke and "expert" Tina Hausten (played by comedian Martina Hill) look at ways in which Germany isn't exactly a role model when it comes to climate policy.

As part of a segment for the heute-show, a late-night satirical TV program, presenter and comedian Lutz van der Horst visits an anti-vaxxer demonstration in Hamburg to find out why these parents do not want to have their children vaccinated against preventable diseases.

Lutz van der Horst lets his fears get the better of him at the German government's Digital Summit.

Germany debates electric cars: Can they save the planet, and how clean are they really?

Is the electric car the only way to save the planet from gas-guzzling cars? That's what politicians seem to think. But comedian Oliver Welke sets the record straight and offers a more grounded perspective...