2024-04-26 17:50:37
Til Schweiger recently dealt hard against Oliver Pocher. But for the comedian it’s hardly worth a syllable. The issue of Xavier Naidoo is much more important to him.
In the latest episode of the podcast “The Pochers! Freshly Recycled”, comedian Oliver Pocher addresses two topics that have been keeping him busy in the past few days. At the performance of his “Liebeskasper” tour in Saarbrücken on April 20th, Pocher famously brought Xavier Naidoo onto the stage. Just a few days later, Til Schweiger insulted the comedian. Reason enough for Pocher to take a look at the events with podcast partner Alessandra Meyer-Wölden.
Oliver Pocher: “I have no problem with Til Schweiger”
“Til Schweiger thinks you’re shit,” Pocher’s ex-wife begins the conversation about the actor and director, who said in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” that he despised Pocher. The man who was scolded then describes that he has “no problem with Til Schweiger at all” and is also definitely someone who can laugh at himself, with which he tries to refute a central accusation of the “Manta Manta – Second Part” director .
The situation becomes more complicated with singer Xavier Naidoo, who, as is well known, caused outrage with crude conspiracy stories before publicly apologizing for his gaffes. Pocher and interview partner Sandy Meyer-Wölden first remember their own wedding in 2010, at which Naidoo performed and sang.
The pair’s deep admiration for the artist and singer Naidoo is clearly expressed, whose music is “untouchable,” as Meyer-Wölden believes. But in the podcast show, the ex-spouses clearly distance themselves from Naidoo’s conspiracy stories expressed in the past. Pocher also talks about a “very disturbing phase” for the singer.
Oliver Pocher regrets public reaction
However, Pocher’s apology for previous statements, expressed in 2022, was obviously better received by Pocher than by the general German public. According to the comedian’s own statement, he found the video “sincere, but that’s the nice thing these days anyway, even when people apologize, they say: ‘He apologized, but yeah, it doesn’t give a shit’.”
Pocher, however, would have accepted Naidoo’s apology and for this reason would have given him a platform again. According to Sandy Meyer-Wölden, that’s exactly what Pocher wouldn’t have done if he had thought that Naidoo “still stood for these things that he threw into the room.”
He also assesses the question of who benefited more from the performance on the “Liebeskasper” stage in Saarbrücken – himself or the singer. The comedian sums up: “It doesn’t matter to me now because I can do whatever I want, people love or hate me, and then it’s now more or less a thing that you think is good or bad.”