Blackout in the ProSieben show: Joko turns off the studio light

On Tuesday (November 1st) Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf again played against their employer “ProSieben” and played for 15 minutes of free time.

In the course of the show it happened that everyone in the studio was suddenly sitting in the dark, because in the first game “Risk assessment catalogue” the duo was supposed to break ten studio rules within ten minutes – there was one point for each rule violation. The week before, Joko and Klaas won against “ProSieben” and announced on October 26 that they would give away their Instagram accounts to the activists Azam Jangravi and Sarah Ramini in order to further draw attention to the protests in Iran.

Studio master Andi, who is responsible for security within the studio, entered the stage to explain the game. He explained the rules of the game and made it clear that he would intervene in an emergency if Joko and Klaas took it too far. Then the ten minutes of the two moderators began. And Klaas Heufer-Umlauf caused the first breach of the rule. “Tom, you smoke. Smoke one, please,” he asked his colleague Tom, who didn’t resist and promptly lit a cigarette.

Joko Winterscheidt went one better and lit some plastic, whereupon Klaas got a fire extinguisher and the “fire” was extinguished. Since it was more of a flame, the rule of starting a fire wasn’t broken, but it’s not allowed to just spray around with the fire extinguisher.

In addition to sabotaging the spectators’ gallery, Klaas managed to drive his car into the studio and destroyed some lamps – all of which, of course, were violations of the rules. In the meantime, Joko headed towards the power supply box. Once there, Andi tried to intervene and said: “It is forbidden to do electrical work that is not carried out by qualified electricians …”, but by then it was too late, because Joko managed to switch off all the lights in the studio. While the studio master tried to restore the power supply, Klaas knocked over another shelf. This gave the moderator duo the first of three possible wins.

However, they both lost the second game against the mentalist Timon Krause and in game three they didn’t stand a chance against the comedians Rick Kavanian and Simon Pearce either. As a result, they were fined by “ProSieben”.

Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf will be hanging on an advertising board in Berlin from Wednesday (November 02) and have to present every primetime program of the television station.



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