FREE English Comedy - NO MORE 2025. NO MORE STANDARDS - Dark Mode #163

🖤 DARK MODE: END OF SEASON PARTY

📅 Saturday, Dec 20

Show 1: doors 19:30, show 20:00, end 21:30ish

Show 2: Doors 21:45, show 22:00, end 23:30ish

📍 Z-Bar, Berlin

It's been a rough year. We’re done. Mentally, emotionally, organizationally. So screw it. No more, "The best of the best", no more "Berlin's funniest comedians". We're embracing our inner failures and just throwing caution, good taste, and good business sense out the f***ing door. Organizing is hard. Chaos is easy. Bring on the chaos.

And as for you? It's the holiday season, you're stuck in Berlin because no one loves you. That's ok. We don't love you either. We're not even sure we like you. But we can hate and seethe and fester in our failures together. And isn't that what the holidays are really all about?

So join us for a ho-ho-horrible time.

This Saturday, for the end of the year, we have two back-to-back shows.

Both Show-Up-To-Go-Up.

Both free / donation-based.

No lineup. No promises. No quality control. Absolutely no f**ks given.

This is The Best and the Worst of Dark Mode — whoever shows up, goes up.

Pros working out new stuff. Newbies making terrible choices. People lying about how long they’ve been doing comedy.

🎤 Show 1: whoever arrives early

🎤 Show 2: whoever’s still sober (or not)

💸 Free entry · Pay what you want

🍷 Bar open · Morals closed

🕗 Doors open, chaos follows

End the season the way it deserves:

messy, dark, and completely uncurated.

Hosted by @thenireast

Ruined by @darkmodecomedy 🖤

Your host:

NIR GOTTLEID (@thenireast)

Israeli comic. Berlin expat. Deeply disturbed.

Too ugly to date Germans, so now he does stand-up instead.

Known for shows like The Berlin Offensive, Schindler’s Fist, and The Revenge of the Jewdi — Nir is widely considered the darkest comic on Germany’s English scene. Mostly by himself.

Watch him here:

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DARK MODE COMEDY

Berlin’s longest‑running dark‑humour night in English, born from the legendary “The Berlin Offensive” (2017). For comics who don’t apologise and audiences who don’t pretend to be normal.

Smart. Savage. Uncomfortable. Since 2017 and still un‑cancelled.

Found out more and join the chaos: https://dark-mo.de @darkmodecomedy