The media compares him to Louis C.K. and Sarah Silverman but how are you supposed to stay sane in a country that “has killed all its funny people” (Robin Williams)? After his bestseller ´_I’m Allowed to do that, I’m Jewish_ (2008) he spent three years on the road, a time which ended in a total collapse. Diagnosis: severe depression. His only hope: two months in the psychiatric hospital.
Now he has written a report from the trenches of the psychiatric ward. In a time in which more and more people face their fears and their burn-outs, Polak takes us to a place where many of us will find themselves in the future. Unsparingly and radically, he talks about the darkest recesses of his soul and takes us on a dark and funny trip to his unconscious.
“Like every good comedian, Oliver Polak goes one step further. Many steps. He practically runs. If I had a hat, I would raise it.” Dirk Stermann
