Henning Wehn
Henning Knows Best

Henning Knows Best

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 2
  • 2012
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Henning Wehn delivers his unique views on British life in the form of comedy lectures. Stars Henning Wehn and Otto Kuhnle.

Press clippings

Henning Knows Best (Radio 2, Saturday), features comedian Henning Wehn - regularly hilarious as a guest on Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth - looking at the British from a German point of view. The first programme was about class and, while there were some lines to make you smile (Wehn said his father told him to leave Germany in 1984 because all the jobs had been taken by "chirpy, lovable, violent Geordies" in Auf Wiedersehen Pet) much of it relied on flat cliches and we also had to suffer Peter York talking unfunny twaddle. "It's their bank balance," he said, asked for the defining clue to someone's class. Apart from a couple of nasty lines - working-class people used to be too busy working "to hunt for paedophiles or buy track suits from Sports Direct" - this was safe, obvious stuff.

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 22nd March 2012

German comedian Henning Wehn given a Radio 2 series

German comedian Henning Wehn is to present a six-part comedy show on Radio 2 early next year.

British Comedy Guide, 19th November 2011

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