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I Want to be a Stand Up Comedian, but I’m Swiss | Fabian Unteregger | TEDxZurich


I think it’s good if I after all is very

intense and very these good speeches so

positive speeches but having material as

well I’d say I go off the stage and I

come onstage again and then you really

cheer out so instead of plan so I got

offstage and if I’m back here what here

thank you thank you so much

[Applause]

thanks so much as I’ve heard I’m Fabian

and I must tell you I’m still a bit

varied because I yet haven’t met this

guy called Ted

so Tony told it I want to be a stand-up

this is like if you’re a Scandinavian

and say yes I am very passionate or if

you are friends say yes I’m a shark in a

strange but I am so organised doesn’t

fire if you have an Italian saying

Charles oh no Giancarlo and I am very

punctual and let’s be fair and honest

the Italians are not punctual they are

not yesterday I’ve met an Italian he was

so late he still believed it’s March and

I started my comedy I saw my comedy in

at school so I performed little sense to

my seat neighbours to the left and to

the right and which was to my surprise

not really welcome I often times ended

up in front of the door of the classroom

and top doing extra homework and

suddenly people for the exact same

really that’s confusing and money money

is one thing like sort of a Swiss

mannerism our relationship to money but

this other man reasons here as well for

instance you might have known this we

have rules how to cut

OSHA’s I mean in gardening so do you yes

do you know another country that has

rules for cutting bushes not me that’s

that’s weird or for instance our garbage

bag system you pay 20 bucks 20 francs

for 10 35 litre bags that’s a long I

have an American friend and she called

her father Dan I can’t believe it it’s

like 10 10 bags for 20 bucks oh no

worries I’m gonna send you some this

does not really solve the problem it’s

not the back that is expensive it’s the

taxes so and I think most of you work in

it at the company and you might have

come across a thing called a pair oh who

knows opera raise your hand

Appa is weird right

where does this phenomenon come from I

did some research and I found out that

in Sweden we have the longest working

hours globally and in reality this is

not really a pleasure

so opera is nothing else than you are

bloody too tired at work but you still

this is when we do opera so people get

together in the office and get pissed

this is one of the rare occasions you

can see your bones strong and I think

this is also where you should plan maybe

your salary negotiation combos just a

10% increase just 10% that’s that’s a

good way and especially in officer

everywhere

we are quite if not very punctual and

punctuality is the DNA of Switzerland

it’s what the entire economy is built

around and take situation at the railway

station I become nervous if I see oh my

god

train is late 15 seconds okay after 50

more 3500 I start to tap from one foot

to the earth oh it’s late for 30 seconds

already after one minute we start to

make eye contact or funk did you see

it’s one minute it’s one minute late

after two minutes two minutes late

Switzerland is falling apart

it’s doomsday what the hell do we do so

we have a I I have a very intense

relationship with my wristwatch this is

why it’s so big I’d say my relationship

with my wristwatch is deeper than my

relationship with my girlfriend when we

go on vacation I even booked my

wristwatch a separate airplane seat

because I think it needs to be cherished

it just deserves it

and in order to make make us feel home

make us welcome we speak our indigenous

language it’s our maid Swiss German you

have noticed it’s a bit different

so there is no written Swiss German it’s

just a spoken language and I must admit

back in the days there were people who

could write Swiss German but they were

tortured they were exposed to

traditional Swiss music never exposed to

land ler and yodeling because we need to

keep Swiss German as a secret language

it’s very secretive this is our Da Vinci

Code I mean the Americans they have the

NSA we have Swiss German and really

beloved it means a lot to us

and I must say there is immigrants in

Zurich who even speak a bad Swiss German

usually these immigrants come from

bouncing and the question is what the

hell is the difference between Swiss

German and high German so views I shall

be employed if we see mmm we need to

bring across really hard harsh message

so if you go the results are very good

iBM is not tight leash passive and this

is the point where you go a eat

why God if you do the same thing in

Swiss German the results are very good

over me

simply doesn’t burn and we are a multi

language country so we have most of us

only speak one language within okay

that’s in our forecast but you might

have travelled you might have come

across a language like in the mountains

in the canton of greece owns a language

called Romansh

who knows romans i must admit i the hell

have no idea what that is

i think it’s sort of a cow dialect

this is how they communicate and just

the humans adapt to and from our charity

Vance really goes moon really that’s

intense

and to most of us face we define

Switzerland at least the majority of big

swiss german

VT finds with something as the swiss

german speaking part so to us france

starts a right behind it behind burn so

if you get across that potato trench

across the Hirsch the global this is

where you already meet French and I’d

say did the people from nurse Adele

Freebo ever da Lausanne Geneva it’s

nothing but French who are used to bad

wine have you ever tried a thing called

photon reef fauna is an experienced

fauna is a better vinegar in Zurich

views further in the hospital as it is

infected and take even spotting a bottle

of photon can ish initiate an abortion

really that is dangerous try to

stay away from it and once these people

come across the board to burn they need

avert working permit so some of you

might have one maybe some words and then

I think there’s four permits the first

to have is the permit G per me G is

grants Kanger and G stands for go home

in the evening we don’t want you to stay

overnight it’s like the French the

Italians the German we want them to get

out because we think they could

potentially start a war

that’s heavy ain’t it and then we

have the permit Elle Elle is you have to

leave and for leave after six months so

we take your labor but we don’t want you

to make friends here and I assume that

making friends here for an expert is not

too easy

you think who thinks no it’s difficult

to make friends in Switzerland raise

your hands okay some people and as you

say I think making friends here is easy

it’s really easy um there’s two ways you

can either pay cash or credit card yes

and and after that you have to permit be

permit be means you can be here but we

still don’t like you and really the best

thing to get is there is a permit C C

stands for congrats you’ve made it yes

who has to see who has a permit C lovely

love is so many oh what do we do

now but even better than a permit C is a

passport and in order to get this

response for it there is two ways and

how you make it to the Swiss national

really that’s it’s a very international

have you seen that it’s so into its I

think it’s it’s something like the

French Foreign Legion

well encounters to the French Foreign

Legion our team usually loses the

battles it’s very international so we

have people from Serbia Croatia the

cause of all Spain it’s so international

we even got an Eskimo playing for our

team

I thought the punch line is better I I

cross that out now and watching our team

is always a hassle so it’s it’s like

okay I’m ready for a heart attack during

the next night oh my god oh my god but

it’s the Germans go ah fun four to zero

okay this is quite good but it could be

even better nah I must admit I I think I

all the others now think what kind of an

asshole

so it’s not just cool if I go to a

restaurant with my girlfriend she gets

the menu it’s opened on the first page I

get the menu on the fifth last page for

our little ones menu Ninja Turtle when

you Bob the Builder or if you go to a

butchery you order three steaks you get

three steaks I get three steaks as well

in a poetry but afterwards always the

question would you fancy a little

sausage so me sitting in an aircraft is

like the flight attendants me and tells

me look I got a little piece of paper

you got some numbers on it

you can connect them in in the end you

get a little picture and in the after

you have like intercoms cabin crew

yellow doors select the zone have you

heard that cabin crew what the hell is

he trying to tell us one thing is clear

we feel oh wow

we trust that man or that lady in the

cockpit I think he could be sitting

there right in front okay

which sentence I’m gonna tell them now I

think why not tell things that might

surprise an audience in the aircraft

like ladies and gentlemen a systematic

happen from the cockpit the captain will

serve you dinner in a few moments we

have decided to switch chops in order to

have a little fun and in general I think

pilots are not able to speak in a normal

welcome aboard flight 350 shot imagine

this one in a butcher shop I would like

to have three steaks two pieces of

salami capping created or select

disarmed and imagine pilots would not

speak always that relaxing if they would

go like this is not a pleasure you don’t

want to hear that and so it’s everything

that even people persons they might not

have the talent to fly an egg imagine

Roger Federer sitting in the cockpit

hello ladies German this is one sir

further from the cockpit I must tell you

the only reason why I sit in this

aircraft is in order to escape my wife

in a car or if you have mr. Trump in the

cockpit okay okay okay it’s good what

sticks out to me is that if mr. Trump

speaks apart from that he always makes

the impression that he’s staring into

some sort of a line okay I don’t see

anything okay well he always uses his

hands like that he can’t just talk like

that he does action I think back in the

days he used to work for a car wash

okay next one okay that’s good okay

other people tell me might just beat the

way he met Melania okay oh my god when I

tell you in the aircraft when I mean

there is an announcement they say we

have an emergency

emergency is a doctor on board I asked

oh my no I can’t right now its impact if

I don’t handle the situation it’s

extremely embarrassing on the other hand

if I’m the only one I must so what do I

do

I raise my hand the flight attendant

approaches me and tells me don’t you

want to first finish your little drawing

here

thank you ladies and gentlemen thanks

long [Applause]

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