Die Wochenshow

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Die Wochenshow (english "The Weekly Show") was a German weekly sketch comedy show that ran on Sat.1 and was produced by Brainpool. It started on April 20, 1996 and was canceled early in 2002. The show was a very popular news parody with sketches and regularly appearing figures.

The original cast consisted of Ingolf Lück, Anke Engelke, Marco Rima and Bastian Pastewka. In 1999 Rima was replaced by Markus Maria Profitlich and in 2000 Annette Frier replaced Anke Engelke, who left the show to pursue her own projects.

The title of the show alienates the German Wochenschau, i.e. newsreel.