Ich freue mich, wenn es regnet, denn wenn ich mich nicht freue, regnet es auch

And how a hollow tooth can hurt, I find incomprehensible; because when something is hollow, there is nothing inside, and I can't explain how that can hurt anyone; there should be so many people in the world constantly suffering from headaches! Karl Valentin was not only a gifted comedian, unconventional thinker, and humorist, but also a brilliant actor and filmmaker. The master of the grotesque and absurd wordplay is regarded by many as being on par with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Luis Buñuel, Samuel Beckett, as well as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Kurt Tucholsky, who referred to him as a leftist thinker, once said about him: I have to think back a long way to remember when there was such laughter in a theater. This book contains the best and most important monologues, scenes, and plays from his extensive body of work, which brings the reader to think and laugh line by line and page by page. I depend on you, but you do not depend on me! Remember that!.