Can we Danes learn something from the always confident Americans? According to Simon Talbot, who has been touring the United States in the hope of the big breakthrough. This has made Simon smarter on Americans, politics and comedy. A knowledge he will now use to 'Make Denmark Great Again'. In the one-man show of the same name, Talbot offers funny and embarrassing video clips from his American escapades, in which he has appeared in the hunt for 'The American Dream' at everything from taco shops to major venues - but has repeatedly had to prove that the meeting between Danish and American humor is not always a match.
Writing
Talbot weaponizes his own failures into surgical cultural observations.
Editing
Those American clip montages hit harder than they have any right to.
Director
Heinrich Christensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Talbot filmed this before COVID and before Trump's 2020 election challenges, making the title feel increasingly like documentary rather than parody.
The show captures a specific pre-pandemic moment when Danish comedians still believed American stand-up success was achievable through pure craft rather than virality.
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