@@TheyCallMeTouchpad The grammar is perfect but the pronunciation is bad so I fear he doesn't really speak German, he just got the relevant lines prepared by someone else. Still, this is more effort than most other shows are willing to do. For example, if someone in South Park speaks German, both the grammar and the pronunciation are terrible. Of course this doesn't really matter for the purposes of the joke, since most of the audience doesn't understand the language.
@@cube2fox He most likely doesn't actually speak german. But I think it's very ironic and almost hilarious that a couple of germans are criticising his fluency due to his pronounciation.
@@TheyCallMeTouchpad It's not criticism. "Fluent" is is just ambiguous. The Grammer is perfect, but the pronunciation shows that he probably doesn't speak the language. If we mean grammar, the lines are indeed fluent. :)
I love that quiver in Peter's voice when he says "That's right", after Chris asks if he actually spoke to the finance minister. Peter knows exactly what's coming.
I love that their interaction begins normally, the proper respect between the co-workers, then, Peter repeats the same inane statement "He said he didn't like it, but he had to go along with it". Then the whole thing just devolves into an improv roast session
@@FishAreFriendsNotFood the films he makes are good. In an interview on channel four news he talks about things being so beyond satire there isn't a need for him to make these kinds of shows
I'm slightly baffled as to how they made it into "to weigh" to be honest. "Nichten" are nieces alright, but "lichten" means to clear out an area of woods, to broadly clear out, if you will. All in all it doesn't make any sense as previously stated due to the fact that the verb would be in the infinitive. Gladly ruining jokes as is German tradition!
Pure comedy genius. I've seen this about two hundred times and it still makes me cry with laughter. The Day Today was the best and most significant UK comedy of the nineties. Vic and Bob were great but they weren't a patch on Chris Morris. As far Newman and Baddiel, they would have made good comedians if they had been funny. Chris Morris was the Peter Cook of his generation, that's all there is to it.
Chris: did you speak to the German finace minister about the new deal this afternoon Peter: No Chris: And what was his reaction? Peter: I don't know Chris: Peter thank you
RTE News (in Ireland) just reported on the US debt ceiling agreement 'Nobody liked it, but they had to go along with it' Sounds like a Day Today fan writing the script!
Quite often, "Cobweb!" In his voice just comes into my brain and I randomly burst out laughing. the Day Today is no less funny with age and, quite sadly, increasingly relevant to today's journalism.
The Falklands War made a minor celebrity out of a BBC reporter called Brian O'Hanrahan or something. "I counted them all out and I counted them all back in again!".
So wonderful. Pretty much the only example on TV in 1995 whilst I suffered in the den of iniquity on a cornucopia of mad drugs, that proved Great Britain was mega awesome, and still bubbling with intelligent life.
The BBC is still like this today! Maybe not in presentation, but in attitudes, and over-dramatic self-importance. Good jawb Chris Morris/Armando Iannucci.
All journalism is like this and has been for a while. It has certainly gone downhill a bit since this show aired, but not in a way that should surprise anyone.
The best part of seing this video it years after it aired it that I have a whole new comic universe to discover.I now understand more where the powerful character of the IT crowd comes from.
The sentence makes no grammatical sense when you translate it directly into German A better way would be to restructure it Ich mag es nicht, aber ich hatte keine andere Wahl Trans: i don’t like it, but I had no other choice
@@thugkermit9999 You mean it makes no _semantical_ sense? Or what is wrong with Graham's translation grammatically? Would it be better as "I don't like it but I am forced to go along with it"? (I'm not sure why it doesn't directly translate is my point.)
"I counted the Harrier's out and I counted them all back again" "Did you Peter?" "Yes Chris" "But aside from the fact they're not Harrier's they're F35's what did you see?" A modern take on this classic sketch.
Sometimes comedy gets so sublime it burns your brain and you just gawp at it like you´re having a stroke because it´s too perfect to ruin by laughing over it. I have always tended to have this reaction to Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan. Alongside Fela Kuti and Michael Aspel, one of my greatest heroes.
im 26 and i started to get really swept up in the news cycles of the world in maybe 2015 ... im now at the phase where i am constantly correlating the past with the present and this... what is this a show???? the best and most masterful satire of the stuffy bureaucratic international news casting ever... i thought the ONION circa 2010 was funny and the closest I'd get to decent comedic satire... thank god the world is a big place when you're tiny.
Notice at 1:00 Chris never takes his eyes off the screen, he never looks down at the notes he is speaking from, he continues with direct eye contact on screen with Peter, even though Peter is in Europe via satellite.
