Raoul Heertje
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Raoul Louis Heertje is a Dutch
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 comedian
Comedian
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. Being Jewish himself, his comedy performances also includes Jewish humour.

From 1983 till 1984 Heertje studied International Relations and Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

. After that he studied in Birmingham
Birmingham
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 till 1986.

The notable international
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 appearances he made were in the TV shows of Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax is a BAFTA nominated American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.-Early life:...

, Clive James
Clive James
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, Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
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 and in the British satirical programme
Television program
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 Have I Got News For You
Have I Got News for You
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(on series 9) in 1995. A year later he became a panelist in the successful Dutch version of the same show: Dit was het nieuws
Dit was het nieuws
Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other...

.

Raoul, and his brother Eric, founded comedyclub Toomler and Comedytrain
Comedytrain
Comedytrain was the first stand-up comedy collective in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1990 by Raoul Heertje. Comedy club Toomler in Amsterdam is its home theatre.The word Comedytrain is a combination of comedy and training...

, the stand-up comedy collective that introduced stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy
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 in the Netherlands
Netherlands
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 in the year 1990. In 2007 he is one of the members of The Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective.

His father is the well-known economist
Economist
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 Arnold Heertje.

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