Thomas Wiesel, a well-headed Swiss comedian, understood the importance of Swiss banks (and others) in solving environmental problems, and he attacks hard in his sketches. UBS and Credit Suisse paid the price.
Thomas Wiesel was born on July 10, 1989 in Lausanne. He studied in the same gymnasium as Jonas Schneiter. Graduated fromHEC Lausanne in 2011, after a year at the University ofAnn Arbor in Michigan, it begins a career as an accountant in a Geneva company.In March 2012, he won the Banane Comedy Club in Lausanne in front Yoann Provenzano. Subsequently, he appeared in particular in the Jamel Comedy Club, at the Montreux Comedy Festival and in the morning shows of LFM and One FM. In 2016, he also had a column in the show Les Beaux Parleurs by La Première, alternating with other comedians.
The values of Thomas WieselIn
January 2016, Thomas Wiesel was blocked from the social network Facebook after criticizing the Democratic Center Union in a video, Swiss party conservative.In April 2016, the aftermath of another column on the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan which unleashed insults very violent towards him, he responded publicly on the social network by saying: “I constantly question myself”.
The political positions of Thomas Wiesel
Inspired by “roast" (according to him), it is a way of making humor on American television which consists of uncompromisingly making fun of a public figure, he declares that its aim is "to make people laugh in order to make people think".He adds that he does not want to become a political figure.Thomas Wiesel's style of humor is largely characterized byself-deprecation and criticism of Swiss and international news.
Thomas Wiesel denounces
In 2017, he denounced to the director of RTS the use of false female profiles on social networks by the star journalistDarius Rochebin to make contact with young men. When theaffair became public in 2020, he said he was relieved.
Why Thomas Wiesel?
Thomas Wiesel is one of those who understood the importance of banks in solving environmental problems. Maybe because he is Swiss. And he doesn't take it lightly when it comes to letting people know what he thinks on the subject.
Incredible talent:
Thomas Wiesel takes on the UBS bank… at an evening organized by UBS! He is the guest, and he does not hold his tongue in his pocket when it comes to the UBS executive.
They must have regretted inviting him to do the show.