After his first appearances on smaller stages in his home town, Chris Tall won the Stuttgart Comedy Clash in 2011 and further comedy slams in 2012, for example in Trier and Düsseldorf. A year later, he became known to an audience of millions when he won the RTL Comedy Grand Prix in 2013. This was followed by appearances on ‘NightWash’ and in the ‘Quatsch Comedy Club’, and he also celebrated great success on his first tour called ‘Versetzung gefährdet’ in 2015. This was followed by a string of awards, including the German Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2016 and the Bambi in the Comedy category in 2018.
On his biggest tour to date, Chris Tall toured the country's major venues for more than a year with his ‘Laugh Stories’ programme, culminating in an open air show in Hamburg's Volksparkstadion in front of 34,000 fans in June 2025. Immediately afterwards, the comedian announced his next solo tour for 2026; this time, under the title ‘Keep Laughing’, he will once again devote himself to the normal scurrilities of everyday madness. A programme about which the artist says: "It's my motto, we keep laughing. My new solo is an invitation to have fun, to be self-ironic, to enjoy yourself."