Kaya Yanar is a German comedian best known for his comedy show Was guckst du?!. He was born to Turkish immigrants from Antakya. While at school he once told his teacher that he wanted to be a comedian, which made the teacher laugh. In an interview with German talkshow host Johannes B. Kerner Yanar described his childhood as a more liberal one and stated that despite his Turkish nationality, he doesn't have a perfect grasp of the Turkish language. After graduating from Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium he studied phonetics, American studies and philosophy but left university prior to graduation. In his one-man comedy show Was guckst du?! the distinctly mediterranean-looking Yanar toys with well-known cultural stereotypes both as host and main performer. For one of his best known sketches about an East Indian, Ranjid and his pet cow Benita, he practiced pidgin-English for months, which he learned from some Indian friends of his from university. Yanar's show has advanced the acceptance of multicultural humour in Germany. In 2006 he ended his comedy show to pursue a film project. In 2012 "Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt" was released. [More at Wikipedia]

May 20th, 1973 in Frankfurt (Age 51)