Cabaret artist Gerhard Polt turns 80: “Humor is something deeply political”

What humor is – Gerhard Polt should know that. For almost half a century he has been making his fans laugh – which at the same time likes to get stuck in their throats and makes a kind of hiccup between dismay and amusement. Gerhard Polt observes the human abyss very sharply and gets to the heart of it with innocent malice. But when asked what exactly humor is, he says…