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What are the differences? Do you have a link to the original?
The NDR version can be watched on their site [0], but it might be region locked. The only notable differences I saw in the Swiss version is they removed the intro and the "Must I?" before taking the admiral's drink. [0] https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Dinner-for-One-Das-Original,din...
As a Brit deeply into comedy I can confirm my total ignorance of "Dinner For One". How very strange what travels. Visiting the US I was surprised how many Americans knew obscure and not terribly funny Monty Python sketches word for word, and meeting a Chinese CTO once whose first words were "Ah Mr. Bean".
For the reverse of the reverse - no one in Germany actually cares about David Hasselhoff.
He’s not “huge” but as a musician he is bigger in DACH than anywhere else.
I am from The Netherlands and I had never seen it until I started dating my now-wife. I got the impression that many Germans believe it’s a well-known sketch since it is in English. Our 8yo daughter thinks it’s hilarious :).
That's funny. I'm Dutch too, and it was a big part of new years eve in my childhood. We watched it every year and loved it. I don't think I got the final joke about the 'procedure' that happens upstairs after the dinner :) I always thought that almost all Dutchies had the same experience but maybe I was wrong
Maybe I'm special, but I never heard of it before today.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The NDR version can be watched on their site [0], but it might be region locked. The only notable differences I saw in the Swiss version is they removed the intro and the "Must I?" before taking the admiral's drink. [0] https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Dinner-for-One-Das-Original,din...
Same version AFAICT is also on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To8g9XxAdXs
As a Brit deeply into comedy I can confirm my total ignorance of "Dinner For One". How very strange what travels. Visiting the US I was surprised how many Americans knew obscure and not terribly funny Monty Python sketches word for word, and meeting a Chinese CTO once whose first words were "Ah Mr. Bean".
For the reverse of the reverse - no one in Germany actually cares about David Hasselhoff.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the differences? Do you have a link to the original?
The NDR version can be watched on their site [0], but it might be region locked. The only notable differences I saw in the Swiss version is they removed the intro and the "Must I?" before taking the admiral's drink. [0] https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Dinner-for-One-Das-Original,din...
I’m reminded of the possibly apocryphal story about 30 Rock being the worst-received comedy in German tv history.
As a Brit deeply into comedy I can confirm my total ignorance of "Dinner For One". How very strange what travels. Visiting the US I was surprised how many Americans knew obscure and not terribly funny Monty Python sketches word for word, and meeting a Chinese CTO once whose first words were "Ah Mr. Bean".
Mr Bean travels well because it's universal humour requiring no translation. Has done well in British consciousness for a single 15 episode series too. For slightly related reasons, Norman Wisdom became absolutely massive in the Eastern Bloc because his apolitical slapstick could be portrayed as "struggling against capitalism" :D