Taboe

Taboe (Dutch for Taboo) is a Flemish television show in which Philippe Geubels explores humor and topics that tend to be taboo in comedy, including physical limitations, terminal illnesses, skin color and poverty.

Taboe
Title screen
Directed by	Kat Steppe
Presented by	Philippe Geubels
Country of origin	Belgium
Original language	Dutch
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	17
Production
Production company	Panenka
Original release
Network	Eén
Release	2018 (2018)

In December 2018, the show won the Ha! award for best television show, an annual award by HUMO magazine.^[1][2]

In 2019, the show received a nomination for an International Emmy Award in the category Non-Scripted Entertainment.^[3][4] The show did not win the Emmy Award; the British show The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night won the award instead.^[5]

Concept

Every episode Philippe Geubels invites around four people in his holiday home. People with a physical disability, people suffering from an incurable disease, LGBTs and so on. In short, people whom you wouldn't laugh at. He visits the area with them and listens to everyone's story. Meanwhile, he brings a stand-up comedy about the theme of the evening, the audience is composed of people similar to the guests.

Seasons

Season 1

Ep.	First aired	Theme	Live viewers (VOD)
1	21 January 2018	Physical disability	1,527,192 (1,791,717)
2	28 January 2018	Terminally ill people	1,693,706 (1,862,176)
3	4 February 2018	People of colour	1,619,367 (1,778,192)
4	11 February 2018	Visually impaired	1,582,845 (1,771,238)
5	18 February 2018	Poverty	1,595,417 (1,776,098)
6	25 February 2018	Psychological vulnerability	1,568,207 (1,762,192)
7	4 March 2018	LGBT	1,638,306 (1,822,334)
8	11 March 2018	Obese people	1,639,000 (1,857,674)
-	18 March 2018	Compilation	1,444,964 (1,519,568)

Season 2

Ep.	First aired	Theme	Live viewers (VOD)
1	26 December 2021	People with autism	1,279,897 (1,566,714)
2	2 January 2022	Women	1,267,989 (1,539,809)
3	9 January 2022	Seniors	1,569,371 (1,767,682)
4	16 January 2022	People who are involuntarily childless	1,433,167 (1,670,538)
5	23 January 2022	People with an unusual appearance	1,474,755 (1,491,430)
6	30 January 2022	People who have struggled with addiction	1,316,281 (1,610,783)
7	6 February 2022	Gender diversity	1,575,769 (1,762,059)
-	13 February 2022	Compilation	1,194,377