What do Karl Lauterbach and Hazel Brugger have in common?

You are clever and successful - but only attractive at second glance.

This is what the comedian Hazel Brugger announces in front of the camera while driving the Minister of Health to Wiesbaden in a Tesla, for an appearance that has nothing to do with his political work.

Brugger wants to persuade Lauterbach to give him last-minute tips when she's driving, but he, very much the politician, takes one call after the other.

Both are featured in Tedros Teclebrhan's (better known as Teddy Comedy) Amazon Prime series One Mic Stand, in which stand-up comedians coach celebrities who then have to perform in front of an audience in a live show.

In the total of five episodes, Teclebrhan moderates the show himself. The southern German has been a star on YouTube for years and most recently made a name for himself with the improv comedy show "Last One Laughing".

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Not every duo in "One Mic Stand" is equally coherent and authentic.

The combination of model Lorena Rae and comedy star Torsten Sträter works well: Rae asks for a schnapps before her performance, which is easy to understand.

Sträter's coaching, which can be seen in a single player, also has moments of outstanding comedy.

Rae works on the task of making Sträter laugh according to the classic recipe from "Last One Laughing" - with moderate success, which is not just her fault.

Sträter is one of those who didn't twist a face in the previous show, while the viewers could no longer stay in front of the television.

He then visits Victoria Secret model Rae at Paris Fashion Week, watches her get her hair done – and asks for his bald head to be styled.

Other couples are a little too close professionally.

Teclebrhan coaches the actor Fahri Yardim, who has already appeared in the series "Jerks" with Christian Ulmen and most recently in "Die Discounter", a comedy series whose dialogues were largely improvised.

When Yardim of all people flirts with his fear of performing in "One Mic Stand", you don't buy the show from him.

Teclebrhan, on the other hand, proves his versatility as an entertainer: sometimes he embodies the unemployed Antoine, sometimes he curses in Swabian or climbs onto the balcony of the auditorium to flirt with young women.

But the live part of the format doesn't really take off - a fate that "One Mic Stand" shares with similar experiments from other streaming portals.

After all, it's less the appearances of the prominent amateurs than the stand-up number of the professionals that give the series its appeal.

Harald Schmidt, whose job it is to coach Mats Hummels, walks through the audience with the usual late-night charm, parodies Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and asks the guests to laugh "louder than with Karl Lauterbach".

And Hazel Brugger, who became a mother some time ago, entertains with the everyday life of a woman who benefits from breast pumps.

As the successor to "Last One Laughing", "One Mic Stand" is quite impressive.

One Mic Stand runs on Amazon Prime Video.