Comedian, actor and satirist Oliver Kalkofe welcomes a growing sensitivity in German humor. “When you look at the jokes that used to be aimed at gay people, at women, at minorities, you can see that there’s now a much different sensibility,” the 59-year-old told Stern magazine. People who claim that nothing more can be said, the native of Lower Saxony replied in the interview: “That’s of course nonsense. In the past it was actually much more restrictive, because church and politics exerted far more pressure on the media, officially.”“Calling someone the N-word today and then saying they’re a ‘freedom fighter and revolutionary against woke culture’ is total nonsense,” Kalkofe says. For his birthday he hopes that people will become a bit calmer and more thoughtful before they just start shouting.