How an obscure British skit has become Germany’s most popular New Year’s tradition.. Like any good German, I have watched this religiously every New Year’s Eve, at least in the last 25 years.
How an obscure British skit has become Germany’s most popular New Year’s tradition.. Like any good German, I have watched this religiously every New Year’s Eve, at least in the last 25 years.
I’d heard about this skit 25 or so years ago when a drunk German friend decided to reenact the whole sketch in the local pub. Given the sketch is completely unknown in England. After failing to raise a single smile poor old Horst was left as puzzled as his audience - “but, but it’s a British sketch, it’s famous”! Now, at last, I can see what the fuss was about ;-)