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.
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