However, it has emerged that each of the celebrities' contributions were normally prewritten by a team of ghostwriters and were rehearsed before the recording, as is common practice in many "comedy" shows.
The regular staff consisted of Mike Krüger, Kalle Pohl, Gaby Köster, Bernd Stelter and Oliver Welke, who took the seat of Rudi Carrell in 2002.
In the beginning the staff consisted of Karl Dall, Bärbel Schäfer, Hellmuth Karasek, Milena Preradovic and celebrities from entertainment and politics like Gregor Gysi, Jürgen Möllemann, Friedrich Nowottny or Marcel Reif.
Thus over 70 different celebrities were guests on the show, among them Michael Mittermeier, Ingo Appelt, Mario Barth, Django Asül, Dieter Nuhr, Atze Schröder, Piet Klocke, Stefan Raab, Hans Werner Olm, Willy Astor, Ingo Oschmann, Bernhard Hoëcker, Hennes Bender, Anka Zink, Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, Ludger Stratmann, Thomas Hermanns, Ina Müller and Oliver Pocher.
This gag always began with:"Ja, Sie wissen alle...ich hatte eine (Oooohhh!
Running gags of Kalle Pohl were his pretendes stunning success with women (Ja, ich als Frauentyp..."/"Well, me as a woman's hero..."), his "cousin Hein Spack" (Vetter Hein Spack) who is always angry ("Ey wat is los, dumm Sau?!
Jochen Busse always greeted the audience "in seiner gewohnt liebenswürdigen Art" (in his distinctly amicable way) and finished each show with: "Bleiben Sie uns gewogen" (Keep us in good remembrance).