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The unnerving Dutch comedian defies categorisation and revels in edgy absurdism. Behind the nonsense, he’s hysterically funny and deadly serious I first saw the Dutch absurdist Hans Teeuwen in ...

The aggressively odd Dutch comedian skirts Bernard Manning territory, but also forces you to interrogate your opinions while you laugh in astonishment “I don’t know what your expectations are.” Pause.

Hans Teeuwen is one of the most successful comics in the Netherlands, coming to prominence as part of a double-act cabaret show called Heist in 1991. However, his performing partner Roland Smeenk died ...

Hans Teeuwen, from Amsterdam, is an absurdist comic performer and singer who takes great risks on stage and has been likened to Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman. But after the murder of his close friend ...

"Blissfully, painfully funny." "Electrifying." "Outrageous and surreal." "A force of nature... a genius at work." The arrival on these shores of an overseas comedy megastar performing his first ...

Forget also the hunt for an underlying theme. Teeuwen is Dutch but doesn’t make a big thing of it like Henning Wehn, currently touring with his German Humour Goes Global show. There was a moment where ...

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Dutch surrealist comic Hans Teeuwen always leaves an impression. By the time he left the UK in 2010 after a couple of years of gigging, he'd won over British audiences and critics. His absurd, ...

In 2011, Teeuwen was last on stage with 'Spiksplinter. The 60,000 tickets sold out in one morning. He closed the tour with eight shows at the Heineken Music Hall. sold out too. In September 2015 Hans ...

HANS Teeuwen picks up my tape recorder, holds it close to his lips and says: "I love Scottish people." He sounds like a heavy-breathing telephone stalker. It's a survival strategy, when interviewing ...