Theo Maassen

Theo Maassen (b. 1966) is a Dutch comedian and actor who played Stuntkip's neighbor in an Angsthaas en Stuntkip sketch in the 2008-2009 season of Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. In this sketch Stuntkip's ball flies into the neighbor's garden. Stuntkip wants to ask her ball back, but Angsthaas thinks she'd better not, because the neighbor may get angry.

Maassen is considered one of the best comedians of the Netherlands. He won two of the most important comedy contests in the Netherlands in 1990, the Groninger Studenten Cabaret Festival and Cameretten. In the same year he became one of the first members of Comedytrain, the first stand-up comedy collective in the Netherlands. One of his fellow members is Sesamstraat writer Cindy Pieterse.

Theo Maassen graduated from the Academie voor Drama in the city of Eindhoven in 1991. Up till now he made six comedy theater shows, and played roles in several movies and television series like Minoes (English title: Undercover Kitty) and Paul Verhoeven's Zwartboek (Black Book). His comic song Lauwe pis (Lukewarm Piss) peaked at #1 on the Dutch Top 40 in 2007.