Mario Barth (born 1 November 1972 in Berlin) is a German comedian who mainly deals with the interactions between men and women.
Barth was one out of six children born to a family in Berlin-Mariendorf. Raised Catholic, he served as an altar boy in his youth, and his parents sent him to a private Catholic school. Barth completed an apprenticeship as a telecommunications electrician at Siemens in Berlin. Thereafter, in 1995, he started studying to become an actor.
During several comedy-workshops, such as the Comedy School in Cologne, he met other actors and comedians, including Diether Krebs, Anka Zink, and Thomas Hermanns. He gained experience by performing on TV shows such as NightWash and Quatsch Comedy Club. Since the beginning of 2001 he has been on the road with his stage show, Männer sind Schweine, Frauen aber auch! (translated as "Men are pigs, but women are too"). In 2003, Barth had his comedy breakthrough with "Männer sind Schweine, Frauen aber auch!". In the same year, he developed his own comedy question-program called Keine Ahnung? ("No Clue"), with its second season broadcast in 2005. In 2004, Barth published a "dictionary for men to understand women" called "Deutsch-Frau, Frau-Deutsch". Barth's dictionary sold out within the first days of its publication and so far 2 million dictionaries have been sold. The dictionary was also sold internationally in various countries such as South Korea, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Japan and Poland. Barth has been an occasional guest in the comedy show Schillerstraße, where his roles included, among other things, a heating engineer, an exterminator, a master potter and a funeral director. He also took part in the RTL show, Typisch Frau – Typisch Mann, from its inception.