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[Previous entry: "Someone's list of 50 top videos."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Blue haired women with robots invade San Francisco."] 12/30/2005 Entry: "german new year tradition is watching an old brit sketch comedy piece." German new year tradition is watching an old brit sketch comedy piece. It sounds crazy, but all new year traditions sound crazy to me. Dropping giant balls? Getting piss drunk? An old man in sash? Selling high quality ecstacy to the neighor's kids. Oh wait... But why? How did a sliver of British humor come to dominate another culture's holidays—with apparently no connective thread back to its source? First, the slapstick of Dinner for One transcends the language barrier. Second, it offers a slight thrill of the verboten: After all, it features a very crazy old lady, a bevy of lecherous male friends, a big stench of post-WWII death, a hell of a lot of drinking, and senior-citizen sex. A third notion, floated by Der Spiegel and the Guardian alike last year, is that the film plays to Germans' worst idea of the British upper class: dotty, pigheadedly traditional, forever marinated in booze despite titles.It could be worse. In france they set fire to random cars. Also: New Years around the world.
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