Dinner for one oder der 90. Geburtstag von Miss Sophie - REACTION LOL

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  • Dinner for one oder der 90. Geburtstag von Miss Sophie - REACTION LOL
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  • @kalyptus666
    @kalyptus666 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    Created in 1963.
    Miss Sophie (May Warden) is celebrating her 90th birthday. Like every year, she invited her four closest friends to a birthday dinner: Sir Toby, Admiral von Schneider, Mr. Pommeroy and Mr. Winterbottom. However, they have all long since passed away - the last one 25 years ago - which is why Miss Sophie sits alone at the table while her butler James (Freddie Frinton) steps in for the guests one by one.

  • @Kelsea-2002
    @Kelsea-2002 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Even my grandparents saw Diner for One every year on New Year's Eve. My parents watch it every year, my friends watch it every year and I watch it every year.I think this is the most successful and cheapest TV production in German history.

  • @dianadonnell
    @dianadonnell 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    It is a tradition on new year in most of europe.
    They tried to cancle it here in Denmark one year, that went very bad for them. 😂😂😂

    • @toft6560
      @toft6560 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Jeg husker!!, hvor sur jeg var det år!! de sendte en dokumentar omkring 90 års fødselsdagen, men ikke selve 90 års fødselsdagen

  • @michaelgrabner8977
    @michaelgrabner8977 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    She didn´t lost her mind she simply just outlived all her friends BUT she is keeping her birthday tradition regardless and her Butler has to step in impersonating all her lost friends for that occassion while serving her birthday diner.

    • @christiankastorf4836
      @christiankastorf4836 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And not just for toasting to her. Four times, and he will do his very best.

  • @thomaskurschner2949
    @thomaskurschner2949 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    It is really a german Tradition, i grow up with it. Now i am 49 and still watch it every Silvester. 😂 You can't do without it ❤

    • @dermagnus8482
      @dermagnus8482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mal gespannt wann es hier verboten wird wie viele deutsche Traditionen.

  • @Schlassenracht
    @Schlassenracht 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The original (The version they broadcast every year at New Years Eve - and YES its a tradition to watch it every year!) has a short intro where the setting is explained. All of her closest friends are already dead - but Miss Sophie likes to have them all for her birthday party - so her Butler James represents all of them for her.

  • @Why-D
    @Why-D 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    And from now on, you will have to sit down and watch this every Sylvester at 6 PM with friends and / or family, every Sylvester.

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Silvester is 'New Years Eve' in English.

    • @Why-D
      @Why-D 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DerEchteBold so he has to sit down every New Years Eve, rather than when he meets Mr. Stallone.

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Why-D
      Haha, exactly!

  • @juwen7908
    @juwen7908 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Imagine to watch this in a group were everybody knows every little detail of that. It is soo funny.
    I'm in my 40s now and I can't remember one year were we haven't watched this mutiple times at new years eve and it's the same for almost everyone in Germany.
    Greetings from Berlin 😎

  • @Ace-Of-Spades---
    @Ace-Of-Spades--- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    In the German version, it is explained in advance that Miss Sophie celebrates her 90th birthday today and that her dear friends have passed away in the meantime, but she celebrated her birthday like every year before.
    Ever since I was a teenager, I've always wondered who she had done her last procedure with earlier. 😜

    • @lannifincoris6482
      @lannifincoris6482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But, the version in Germany is in English.. so, not a German version, just a version for the German TV ;-)

    • @Ace-Of-Spades---
      @Ace-Of-Spades--- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@lannifincoris6482
      If you look closely, in many European countries everyone knows May Warden and Freddie Frinton through the two recordings from Switzerland and Germany, and we love them.
      How many people in the UK still know them today?

    • @christiankastorf4836
      @christiankastorf4836 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      All those fourr best friends, then three of her best friends plus James, then two of her best friends and so an. Anyway, within the last 25 years it has only been poor James to do his very best, four times.

  • @Linda.A.
    @Linda.A. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    This is also a new year's tradition here in Sweden I always watch it and even when I was little and didn't know English I still enjoyed the great physical comedy 😝

  • @palantir135
    @palantir135 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I know this genius video for over five decades already. We used to see this every new years eve. It was broadcasted on german tv bt we could see it too in the Netherlands.
    I still look at it every year.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The German television was looking for a film to fill the break. However, the reporter came back from London.
    There he saw the performance in a small theater. So the program director traveled to London and watched the performance. Immediately after the performance, they hired the actor for a recording in the Hamburg studio.
    Swiss television also showed interest and offered a recording in Basel. So the actor went on tour through Germany and Switzerland. The two TV recordings were made.
    But unfortunately he didn't have the rights to the play, so he had to give up a large part of his income.
    A few years later the show was shown on German TV on New Year's Eve and this became a tradition.
    The artist remained unknown in England.

  • @may-kristinaasheim3358
    @may-kristinaasheim3358 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    In Norway, it's been a tradition for years on December 23rd 😊.

  • @dee-smart
    @dee-smart 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I live in South Australia and it was a tradition every New Years eve at home to watch this on our non commercial channel ABC2, and we are not Germans. We have a Welsh and English background.

    • @juwen7908
      @juwen7908 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Interesting 🤔

  • @keithparker5125
    @keithparker5125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    As a Brit of a certain age, I well remember Freddy Frinton and his infamous 'drunk' act. I used to regularly visit friends in Germany who were shocked to hear that I did not possess a copy of this video. Needless to say, on my next visit I was presented with a copy.

    • @diarmuidkuhle8181
      @diarmuidkuhle8181 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Speaking as a German, what amazes me is that this sketch is so underappreciated in England, when it's a piece of the most English slapstick I've ever seen. And yes it's turned into a New Year's ritual for us to watch it for some reason. Xd

  • @ghostbeetle2950
    @ghostbeetle2950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Freddie Frinton was my Scotish Granpa's favorite comedian and he was amazed to discover this sketch when he came to visit us in Germany one year, since it had been produced specifically for German public broadcast and probably never really shown in Britain.
    t's just one of those inexplicable cult things, I guess, but it is a stone-cold New-Years classic here in Germany.

  • @rst7332
    @rst7332 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Tradition here in Finland also 🎉😂 Every year 🥂 Also, every now and then at parties, you might have a competition to see who is the quickest to remember the names of all the guests 😉

  • @bema1908
    @bema1908 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Fun fact: The show was banned in Sweden until 1969 due to the massive alcohol consumption. 😀
    I can't remeber a New Year's Eve where I didin't watch the show. And I'll always enjoy it.
    They even tried to recolorize the show, but the real fans didn't like it. We prefer the black and white version. 🙂

  • @susannestrozyk7062
    @susannestrozyk7062 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I've seen it at least a hundred times and enjoyed it so much to watch you seeing it for the first time.

  • @JunkerOnDrums
    @JunkerOnDrums 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It's a tradition to watch in Denmark new years eve :D

  • @pfalzgraf7527
    @pfalzgraf7527 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    On this past New Years Eve, this could be watched at different times between 4PM and just before midnight on several German TV channels. In addition, regional channels put on dubbed versions in various German dialects ...

  • @DJone4one
    @DJone4one 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    In 1961, the sketch was produced for television in black and white by NDR (nothern germany broadcasting station) and was first shown in the programme. The sketch was shown on 8 March 1963 in the programme "Good Evening", Peter Frankenfeld, also produced by NDR and directed by Heinz Dunkhase, although Frinton was the actual creator of the production.

    • @christiankastorf4836
      @christiankastorf4836 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No, he bought the sketch from another comedian. The two of them played the sketch from the 1940s on. Frinton is not entirely forgotten in Britain, he had his own TV-series in which he played a clumsy plumber, and some Brits know that he toured the amusement piers and small theatres around the coast to play sketches like this one. It was in Blackpool that Dunkhase and Frankenfeld saw them. May Warden was older than he was but outlived him for many years.

  • @nixgips1042
    @nixgips1042 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's HER 90th birthday and all other "guests" are passed long time ago, but never mind.... - Poor Butler James takes the part... :D
    First shown in 1963 in a German Live-TV Show, 1972 first shown on New Years Eve and since then it's a CULT in Germany, showing this sketch in German TV EVERY New Years Eve several times. - Same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie? - Same procedure as EVERY year James.... ;)

  • @josephanna9349
    @josephanna9349 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When I was a kid I laughed so much about that until my tummy ached.
    It d fun to watch somebody watch it for the first time.

  • @vincenzof3863
    @vincenzof3863 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is hilarious 😂

  • @OnkelKnuffel
    @OnkelKnuffel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Hallo D! I was Born in 1968. As long I can remember watching TV I knew Dinner for one. I think it was in the early 70s that this was showed in german TV. And from this time we are watching it at every new years eve. The acting of the two brilliant acters is sooooooo good. You know every step and every hit at the tigers head and you can talk the sentences by your self but every year you have to laugh. Now, the reason why it will be every new years eve in german TV, I think, is the sentence "The same procedre as every year". Fun Fact: you see this show in original language, meaning english. And today, when something is happening again and a other person ask what to do, we say in Germany "The same procedre as every year". In this meaning I am waiting to do the same procedre: watching your next Video on TH-cam! 😆 Many greatings from Duisburg in Germany!

  • @u.e.u.e.
    @u.e.u.e. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This was recorded in 1963 with May Warden and Freddie Frinton in a studio in Hamburg for the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk).
    The laughter is from the actual audience back in 1961.
    This video is missing the German introduction by a speaker/conférencier. He said that all friends of Miss Sophie already passed away and her butler James is trying to make the birthday for her as nice as possible (The same procedure as* last year? - The same procedure as every year!).
    So he doesn't just have to serve but also to drink for her 4 deceased friends. 🤭
    * This got its way into the German language - everyone knows where it comes from. 😉

    • @Humanrebel
      @Humanrebel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think this is the swiss version. James does not ask "Must I, Misx Sophie?" here.

    • @u.e.u.e.
      @u.e.u.e. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Humanrebel The Swiss TV is using the same recording from 1963, like most TV stations around the world.
      The difference in the annual Swiss and German broadcast is the introduction. It's a German speaking conférencier. Other TV stations use other or no introductions at all.
      de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

  • @Humanrebel
    @Humanrebel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I think, this is thf version done for swiss TV. In the version done for getman TV, there is a host explaining the back story and when James has to play Admiral von Schneider, he always asks "Must I, Miss Sophie" refering to kick his heels together. And Miss Sophie answers "Just to please me, James."

  • @Lydelith
    @Lydelith 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    We watch it every year. It's most enjoyable, of course, when someone is with us who hasn't seen it yet. Thanks for that!

  • @shurikn1337
    @shurikn1337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I haven't spent a new year's eve without watching Dinner for one. Watched it with my parents and now with my kid. Passing on the tradition.

  • @andreascammin5619
    @andreascammin5619 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    the second must see in Germany at new years eve is "Silvesterpunsch", an iconic episode of "Ein Herz und eine Seele"

    • @carolineemunds2813
      @carolineemunds2813 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolut 😂 "das ist Punch Du dusselige Kuh" 😂😂😂

  • @meisterin_eder
    @meisterin_eder 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    New Years Eve classic 😂 and a big tradition in Germany. I'd say NYE is incomplete if you miss out on it. (My family, friends and) I've been watching this for the past 30 years or lil more.
    I'd have to say my sisters kids are not into that humour as well as the kids of friends of mine. 😅 So yeah, sometimes I keep wondering if we can keep this tradition up.
    I believe it's from 1963.

    • @ReactionsbyD
      @ReactionsbyD  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      oh todays GenZ would BARELY find that amusing - you may get a GRIN and thats it lol

    • @klarasee806
      @klarasee806 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My kids (Gen Z) don‘t laugh about it as much as I do, but they do enjoy the tradition to watch it together. So I have hopes that they‘ll carry it on.

  • @miraz.6825
    @miraz.6825 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1963, älter als ich! LOL 🍾🍷

  • @clemens6807
    @clemens6807 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oh yes, dinner for one. I love it. I really enjoyed it on television on New Year's Eve 1977/1978. It then became a New Year's Eve ritual.
    Even when I celebrated New Year's Eve with friends, I always managed to watch Dinner for one on New Year's Eve.
    I think I realized when I was 23 that I hadn't missed a single New Year's Eve since I was 9 years old. Then it became a bit of a challenge, and in a few years I'll be watching my 50th show without having missed a year.
    Incidentally, this recording is virtually unknown in its country of origin, England. In Germany, on the other hand, it is still very popular today.

  • @contadinellafranconia5806
    @contadinellafranconia5806 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It isn't the version shown on TV (on every channel, you could start watching at 18:00 and watch the reruns till midnight by channel surving) during New Years Eve. The backdrop is more elaborate and has much more details.

  • @lannifincoris6482
    @lannifincoris6482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The version made for German televsion, is slighty better, and there is one woman in the audience laughing so heartly ... also in my family it is a tradtion to watch it every Silvester..

  • @zasou571
    @zasou571 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Oh my god! How I love this sketch! I've been watching "The 90th Birthday" several times every New Year's Eve for over 50 years now - and I laugh my ass off every time... I know every gesture, every stumble, every "don't stumble" and every single word by heart ^^
    I laughed the hardest when my then 4 year old son started acting out the whole sketch with his little table and chair and a teddy as Miss Sophie and the kids' crockery while it was on TV! The cutest thing I've ever seen ^^ (thank goodness I have it on video; now watching THIS version is also a firm tradition in our family...) I'm in tears every New Year's Eve: first from laughter, then from sheer emotion ^^ I love it!

  • @hendricstattmann3638
    @hendricstattmann3638 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the swiss version of the same sketch, performed by the same actors.

  • @Nachtrot
    @Nachtrot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a German tradition to watch on New Year's Eve. This year a friend and her husband from Texas celebrated with us, he was a bit confused. Greetings from Germany!

  • @claudiarichter439
    @claudiarichter439 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

  • @contadinellafranconia5806
    @contadinellafranconia5806 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Freddy Frinton took the tiger rug everywhere he was perfoming, because his musclememory was trained exactly on the hight of this tigerhead to stumble correctly.

  • @Kelle-Klamrott
    @Kelle-Klamrott 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A must in Germany on every Sylvester. As Child it was a Nightmare :D

  • @Draganter1977
    @Draganter1977 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this has been a cult classic for a long time on New Year's Eve in germany german greetings

  • @NFSHeld
    @NFSHeld 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a recording from a different angle. I think the one broadcasted on German television has a "nicer" angle from the front. It's also available colorized. It also starts with a (German) host explaining the situation. He explains (in short):
    "It is Miss Sophie's 90th birthday, and she always has a birthday party with her four dearest friends. There is just one little problem with that. Miss Sophie outlived them all by many years already. So her butler James has to take the role of all four of them. It went well all those years and it will go well this year, too."

  • @JorlinJollyfingers
    @JorlinJollyfingers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Lot of reactions on this one... but it is not the version that is actually shown on german TV every year. i actually saw this the fist time in a reaction video.

  • @claudiarichter439
    @claudiarichter439 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love it ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Lemmi7810
    @Lemmi7810 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't know why everybody in Germany knows that but no one in Britain knows it. 😂 And my parents and grandparents can't even speak English but they watched it back in the day nearly every year on Silvester. 🎉

  • @christinarozmarin4319
    @christinarozmarin4319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tradition also in some household....drinking the same at the same time...😂...I can recommend it 😂🎉

  • @user-rq7hv6lf8c
    @user-rq7hv6lf8c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The introduction is cut out by means, only TH-cam can understand. So, of course, seeing it the first time, it is not abundantly clear, that her friends are deceased and she celebrates with their ghosts.

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it's the other version that has the introduction.

  • @PeterSchmuttermaier
    @PeterSchmuttermaier 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome drinking game. Every time he drinks, everybody takes a shot. Every time he stumbles over the cat, everybody takes a shot.

  • @elab.1413
    @elab.1413 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is not the german version, I think it is made for austrian tv. German version is slightly differend, differend camera ancels and a tablecloth

  • @Heidi-bf6ke
    @Heidi-bf6ke 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes every year.......this and eckel Alfred

  • @christinadeborahherzel-mat2397
    @christinadeborahherzel-mat2397 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It is a German production and was done in 1962 or 1963 and was ment as persiflage on English snobyness. Who says that Germans have no humor?

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As far as I know it's a roughly 100 year old British skit, according to Wikipedia Freddie Frinton bought it and successfully toured with it all over Britain as early as the 1940s.
      And finally some German TV executive saw it and hired him to do it for a German TV production.

  • @christiankastorf4836
    @christiankastorf4836 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    While James has to make his round, fill and empty the glasses... Miss Sophie must not be unactive. That is why she gets real food in that sketch and eats it. James would not have any time to do so.

  • @cyborgninjapirat1097
    @cyborgninjapirat1097 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I recommend Staplerfahrer Klaus 😂

  • @valentin4649
    @valentin4649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That´s my killer every year :-)

  • @Kelle-Klamrott
    @Kelle-Klamrott 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Its her Birthday but everyone is Dead :D

  • @locke821
    @locke821 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's a different version. Not that, what we see everey new years eve in TV. The angle of the camera ist way to left, the "Admiral" always asks "must I, Miss Sophie?", the audience, specially the laughter, is extremly different.

  • @wolfsdream499
    @wolfsdream499 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Am I wrong or is this a different shorter version with different camera angles, the tablecloth is missing etc.?

  • @psylia1
    @psylia1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That is not the original. And the explanation for the sketch is missing.

  • @u.p.1038
    @u.p.1038 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Its sad that everyone reacts to the Swiss version of Dinner for one. The German version is way better, its longer and the set is much more detailed.

    • @klarasee806
      @klarasee806 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was going to write the same. The German "original" really is a lot better.

  • @sarakujabi9907
    @sarakujabi9907 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's not the version we watch every new year eve in Germany

  • @RainerHohn1510
    @RainerHohn1510 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ach, ist schon wieder Silvester?

  • @andreagruber5813
    @andreagruber5813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It is from 1963 and we in Austria have something else. At first we have "Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter" translation more or less: A true Viennese does not give up. You can not truly translate it, but something like that. (at least until 2016 it was like that, I do not live in that country anymore), which is an Episode out of a series. It is about a working class family and he and his pale get so wasted, that when it is time to shot the fireworks, they shot of course one of it in the flat of the neighbours. It is the satire look into the working class society of the 1970s and well, there is a lot of funny things happening, but I guess, it is only when you are an Austrian, that you understand it, not only because of it's special dialect. Germans and Austrians are different and so I am sure many Germans would not understand that kind of "black humour". At midnight, when America has a look at Time Square with the dropping ball, Austrians have a look at the cathedral St. Stephan in Vienna, where a massive Bell is ringing for several minutes and the Staatsopernbalette (Ballet of the state opera) is dancing do the blue Danube from Johann Strauss Sohn. I have to say, I do not watch TV anymore, because I did not buy a new one in 2014 as the other one broke. I could not watch the program of Austria anymore (also because I do not live there anymore), because I get bored fast. "Dinner for one", is alright for one or two times, but I do not have to watch it every year, that fore it is somehow too long and not really funny in my opinion, because I saw enough drunk once in real life, I do not need it here as well. Germans hate me for way more than this, so I do not care to get more hate, because I do not like their "precious tradition".
    I admit it was funny to see you reacting to it.

    • @mammamiamikamoby
      @mammamiamikamoby 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jööö, da Mundl! Mei Bier is ned bled! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @andreagruber5813
      @andreagruber5813 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mammamiamikamoby Da Mundl is uebereu vatreten. Auwa wo a recht hod, hod a recht, as Bier is sicha ned bled. 😉

  • @katn1952
    @katn1952 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's not the one they show at TV every year. Pfui ☝

  • @Qdance81
    @Qdance81 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The german Version is better.