January 25, 2007
GERMANS LOVE DAVID HASSELHOFF
This version of the "Cheers" theme, found at By Ken Levine, reminds me of the hilarious impressions Phil Hartman used to do of Jack Benny and John Wayne - all in German.
It also reminds me of the story Eric Idle told during the Aspen Comedy Festival a few years back during a Monty Python tribute about the time the group was hired to do a show in German for a broadcast network there even though none of them spoke the language. They figured they needed to do some research, so they made arrangements to visit the country.
"So we went to Germany on a writing recce. Who's heard of a writing recce? They picked us up at the airport and drove us straight to Dachau. All the way there, they kept denying they knew what it was. 'What camp? There is no camp here.' And we got there and it was closing and Graham [Chapman] said, 'Tell them we're Jewish." And they let us in."
Posted by Jeff at January 25, 2007 09:30 AM | TrackBack
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