Is it true? You Brits and Yanks don't know this?

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,druck-418781,00.html

Well...? :lol:

I personally don't watch it every year, but the reminder of it already makes me giggling. British humour in it's purest form - at least in Krauts' stereotypes of what British humour is. :p


P.S. for those who REALLY never heared of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA

This is a normal version. They say the version German TV shows has more "details". Haven't compared it, but it is also at youtube, split into four of five parts.

[Gorduz]

We watch this in Norway as well, but on the night before christmas.. Great sketch :)

[mrbeast]

I've heard of this Greman tradition. But speaking as a Brit I have never seen it and I haven't seen it listed on UK television. If I ever see it in the TV listings I'll try and watch it.:yep: :up:

Who says the Germans have no sense of humour!:lol:

Glad that British comedy entertains so many across the globe, I managed to catch two Monty Python films on TV last night, absolutely brilliant! :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Ubåtskapten]

Here in Sweden it's also shown on TV every New Year’s Eve (though I have no idea how widespread the tradition to watch it is). Didn't now the fact that it's never been shown in the UK, nor that it is a German tradition as well.:D

[stabiz]

:rotfl:That skit is older than the earth.

[CCIP]

Well you got me there :o

I have indeed never heard of it up to now. Fun stuff!

[AntEater]

The youtube version is NOT the usual new year's eve version in Germany.
I think this is the swiss version.
The german version only has one camera and a distinct hysterical laughter in the audience (a TV employee). It is more like watching a stage play.
Actually Frinton did this at a comedy festival in Switzerland and only did the german version on a stopover in Hamburg.
Frinton himself was not exactly font of the Germans (the "must I, miss Sophie?", with Admiral von Schneider is meant like that), so it is ironic that he is almost forgotten in the UK and won everlasting fame in Germany.

Btw, yesterday I was with a bunch of russians and watched this "guy gets drunk, boards a plane and ends up in Leningrad in a identical appartment" movie that russians always watch.

[Chock]

Can't say I'd ever heard of this before seeing it mentioned here, although I've seen a number of sketches which are obviously either derivatives of it, or from which it was derived.

The only Christmas TV traditions in the UK (now becoming less so, owing to vastly greater numbers of channels) are the same old films being trotted out (i.e. The Great Escape, for the millionth time) and appallingly bad 'Christmas Editions' of sitcoms that are generally past their best.

:D Chock

[mrbeast]

Can't say I'd ever heard of this before seeing it mentioned here, although I've seen a number of sketches which are obviously either derivatives of it, or from which it was derived.

The only Christmas TV traditions in the UK (now becoming less so, owing to vastly greater numbers of channels) are the same old films being trotted out (i.e. The Great Escape, for the millionth time) and appallingly bad 'Christmas Editions' of sitcoms that are generally past their best.

:D Chock

Morecambe And Wise and The Two Ronnies numerous Xmas specials are always repeated, the Queen's speech is a bit of a tradition too.