hahaha...ignorance!! it´s so funny!! tell you what, here in germany there a no tv shows where people try to be funny by speaking mock english, we actually learn english and other foreign languages at school......but when the white guy used and old nazi catchphrase ("heute deutschland, morgen die ganze welt" - "today germany, tomorrow the whole world") i had to laugh, too!
that´s really impressive $nake, all i learnt at school were these dumb languages that only stupid burger-gobblin´war-mongers, dumb stinkin´frog eaters and lazy tortilla rollers speak...shame on me! p.s. ignorance is a bliss, isn´t it?
I didn't know you weren't allowed to exploit difference and ignorance for comedy. Then again you might have never seen such a thing before given Germany's notoriety for lacking a sense of humour. Oh wait, I just made a crap cultural insight based on ignorance.
Berndt das Brot was hilarious I must admit, or was it Austrian instead?
Steven, since you've obviously never seen this show, they don't plan for what they're gonna be doing. Should they put an IMPROV show on hold so all the actors can learn and speak fluent German for one skit as to not frustrate people like you? I mean, if the show was based around speaking a foreign language then yes they should actually learn it, but not if it's for one skit.
@ammonia33: the phrase "ignorance is a bliss" was a quote from the recent season finale of lost, i´m well aware that the term is used without article normally.
@c.o.t.b. : bernd is german, a german comedian named tommy krappweiss invented him.
@exploitedyouth: imho, comedy should make fun of everything, this skit did in no way frustrate me, as stated above it even made me laugh once. i just think that knowledge is a better base for comedy than ignorance and prejudice, but maybe as a typical german without any sense of humour i just don´t get it. and if this is the anglo-american idea of humour, it´s no wonder no one thinks that germans can be funny, our humour must seem too sophisticated...
It had no prejudice in it. i used to watch this show all the time and what they do is they either have a random language on one of the cards or they have the audience yell out a language that the actors are supposed to speak this makes it so the actors can say random stuff that sounds slightly similar to the language they're mimicking and the people with microphones can make what they said mean anything they want it to mean. It wasn't a skit bashing Germans.
@exploitedyouth: and i never said or thought that it was. but you have to admit that the concept IS based on ignorance. if they would be prompted to base their act on something they know anything about, i wouldn´t say anything, but they are talking jibberish mock german to be funny and i just think thats quite primitive, i would say the same if it were mock spanish or mock french or whatever (or mock irish drinking song for that matter, that one wasn´t funny either, and it also was mostly supposed to be funny because of jibbering and nonsense!!), it just doesn´t seem to be an overtly intelligent approach to humour. in german tv it´s the same with for example turkish and it pisses me off in the same way...and the whole "sauerkraut-sausage-nazi"-bullshit was very prejudiced! you have to be really good to do impro comedy, and none of these people were, at least not in these two clips. and the description to this one was what bugged me the most. most english speaking people know no other language and yet they have to belittle them, that seems really ignorant to me.
Seagull- you had to learn English in your german schools because you got your asses kicked by English speakers two wars in a row. If you had managed to goosestep into New York City and Washington, DC, then we would be speaking German now. You didn't and we aren't. 'Nuff said.
Seagull (pt II) As for your "most english speaking people know no other language" claim- I am curious about wehre you got this little factoid. Did you pull it from your rectal database? I am an "english speaking people" and I speak German, Spanish, some Italian and some Korean. I can also get my face slapped in Japanese, Vietnamese and Farsi. I am not about to proclaim that all "englsih speakers" have the same vocabulary but lets face it, English is the KEY language in the world, at least for now. Air Traffic Control is English across most of the world, English is the primary language of international commerce and English has cool words like "croissant", "cul de sac", "adios" and "latte." German has dumb words like "ausfahrt", "eins" and "mushi." English rules, dude. (Wir sind nummer Eins!)
Snakker du Engelsk? No? You will.
i learnt english because i wanted to, you idiot! i could as well have opted for latin, italian or greek and my first foreign language was french! none of the cool words you stated are english but i think you know that and "mushi" is japanese, i think you mean "muschi" and about the "most english speaking people know no other language" claim, thats just my personal experience with aussies, brits and americans, i hope and believe that there are exceptions, and just because english is todays lingua franca, is no reason to be ignorant about other cultures or languages or belittle them, just look what happened to the roman empire, didn´t them any good to think that they were better than the rest of the world (same goes for the british empire, which btw established english as most important language of the modern world, no matter what you americans might think!)
I was informed that English is the language of money. If you learn english it would better your chances of landing a good job. Because the US is and has been the largest market for awhile. MONEY RULES!
Seagull-
I am an "English speaking (person)" and I happen to know a good amount of Korean too.
As far as being ignorant of other cultures (specifically the german), German culture is fairly mixed in with America. We work hard, are technology driven, eat sausages, drink beer and drive VWs. How German can you get?
lol @ booddles!! plus german words are more and more common in the u.s. as well, just think of "über", "dreck" , "kitsch" and other words which are adopted by many americans. that´s cuz germany is sooo über-cool, just look at our hip hop culture!!
@kodega: first of all the correct spelling is "über" with the two dots of "motörhead"fame also known as trema or diaeresis on the u. the pronounciation is hard to explain, as it is neither of your two suggestions. i can´t think of any word in english where the "u" sounds like the german "ü", so i have to leave you with the wikipedia explanation: "The letter Ü occurs in the Yakestonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar and Tatar Latin alphabet alphabets, where it represents a close front rounded vowel (/y/)." in german however it´s not part of the regular alphabet, it serves as a simplification of the combination "u+e" and sounds like a mix of the "ou" sound in "you" and the "y" in words like "syllable", maybe i can find a good example you can listen to somewhere on the net. hope that helps!
uber needs an umlaut which I obviously lack with this keyboard hence it changes the pronounciation to something like the "ou" in "you" as you suggested. Perhaps more like an "ooh" like in "zoo". There's not a really close word I can think of at the moment.
i found a nice "über" sung by a famous german entertainer called reinhard mey, just ignore the two crazy girls and listen to the song (it´s called "über den wolken" which means above the clouds), it´s exactly at 00:40!!
"Seagull- you had to learn English in your german schools because you got your asses kicked by English speakers two wars in a row. If you had managed to goosestep into New York City and Washington, DC, then we would be speaking German now. You didn't and we aren't. 'Nuff said. "
If u bein serious bout dat, it just proves the other kid was right.
I myself couldn't lough bout dat clip, despite the fact dat I'm German, it just wasn't funny.
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Steven_Seagull, you must be new here, I wouldn't respond to every dipshitcomment on this site, I wouldn't respond at all!
post a vid about germany on youtube or some site like that and you will inter alia get comments like "hey, i love germany, i was there for half a year..blabla" and stuff like that. heres an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXc2AM5RGQ&search=german
but not here, this ist fucking muchosucko mkay?! just look the comments on some old vids up, is a black person in it the whole debate was prolly about race with a lot of racism, is it about a foreign country, about someone getting seriously hurt... etc etc. etc. ITS ALL THE SAME IGNORANT BS!
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Colbert was eerily absent from that clip. My guess is that Carey ate him.
Um, this is the Irish drinking song.
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YAk WTF you are supposed to be PERFECT GODDAMNIT!!!!!
dirka dirka dirka.
ever notice in whose line if you don't see the game they're playing from the very beginning of it, you are completely lost?
hahaha that tall guy whos name i always forget is hilarious<br>drew carrey......................................................not so funny
Hardest i've laughed in a LONG time.. post more of these plz
hahaha...ignorance!! it´s so funny!! tell you what, here in germany there a no tv shows where people try to be funny by speaking mock english, we actually learn english and other foreign languages at school......but when the white guy used and old nazi catchphrase ("heute deutschland, morgen die ganze welt" - "today germany, tomorrow the whole world") i had to laugh, too!
Yeah Steven is right...
fick deutschland! That is what I learnt at school.
that´s really impressive $nake, all i learnt at school were these dumb languages that only stupid burger-gobblin´war-mongers, dumb stinkin´frog eaters and lazy tortilla rollers speak...shame on me! p.s. ignorance is a bliss, isn´t it?
I didn't know you weren't allowed to exploit difference and ignorance for comedy. Then again you might have never seen such a thing before given Germany's notoriety for lacking a sense of humour. Oh wait, I just made a crap cultural insight based on ignorance.
Berndt das Brot was hilarious I must admit, or was it Austrian instead?
steven, ignorance must be 'a' bliss if you don't even know that term, lol.
Damm moderators linked it wrong
Steven, since you've obviously never seen this show, they don't plan for what they're gonna be doing. Should they put an IMPROV show on hold so all the actors can learn and speak fluent German for one skit as to not frustrate people like you? I mean, if the show was based around speaking a foreign language then yes they should actually learn it, but not if it's for one skit.
FRENCH BREAD PIZZA FUCKING OWNS
FUCK YEAH THAT FUCKING CHEEZ ONE IS SO BOMB ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU PUT GARLIC PEPPER BUT THE PEPPERONI ONE SUCKS AND IT BURNS THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH
@ammonia33: the phrase "ignorance is a bliss" was a quote from the recent season finale of lost, i´m well aware that the term is used without article normally.
@c.o.t.b. : bernd is german, a german comedian named tommy krappweiss invented him.
@exploitedyouth: imho, comedy should make fun of everything, this skit did in no way frustrate me, as stated above it even made me laugh once. i just think that knowledge is a better base for comedy than ignorance and prejudice, but maybe as a typical german without any sense of humour i just don´t get it. and if this is the anglo-american idea of humour, it´s no wonder no one thinks that germans can be funny, our humour must seem too sophisticated...
It had no prejudice in it. i used to watch this show all the time and what they do is they either have a random language on one of the cards or they have the audience yell out a language that the actors are supposed to speak this makes it so the actors can say random stuff that sounds slightly similar to the language they're mimicking and the people with microphones can make what they said mean anything they want it to mean. It wasn't a skit bashing Germans.
@exploitedyouth: and i never said or thought that it was. but you have to admit that the concept IS based on ignorance. if they would be prompted to base their act on something they know anything about, i wouldn´t say anything, but they are talking jibberish mock german to be funny and i just think thats quite primitive, i would say the same if it were mock spanish or mock french or whatever (or mock irish drinking song for that matter, that one wasn´t funny either, and it also was mostly supposed to be funny because of jibbering and nonsense!!), it just doesn´t seem to be an overtly intelligent approach to humour. in german tv it´s the same with for example turkish and it pisses me off in the same way...and the whole "sauerkraut-sausage-nazi"-bullshit was very prejudiced! you have to be really good to do impro comedy, and none of these people were, at least not in these two clips. and the description to this one was what bugged me the most. most english speaking people know no other language and yet they have to belittle them, that seems really ignorant to me.
Seagull- you had to learn English in your german schools because you got your asses kicked by English speakers two wars in a row. If you had managed to goosestep into New York City and Washington, DC, then we would be speaking German now. You didn't and we aren't. 'Nuff said.
Seagull (pt II) As for your "most english speaking people know no other language" claim- I am curious about wehre you got this little factoid. Did you pull it from your rectal database? I am an "english speaking people" and I speak German, Spanish, some Italian and some Korean. I can also get my face slapped in Japanese, Vietnamese and Farsi. I am not about to proclaim that all "englsih speakers" have the same vocabulary but lets face it, English is the KEY language in the world, at least for now. Air Traffic Control is English across most of the world, English is the primary language of international commerce and English has cool words like "croissant", "cul de sac", "adios" and "latte." German has dumb words like "ausfahrt", "eins" and "mushi." English rules, dude. (Wir sind nummer Eins!)
Snakker du Engelsk? No? You will.
i learnt english because i wanted to, you idiot! i could as well have opted for latin, italian or greek and my first foreign language was french! none of the cool words you stated are english but i think you know that and "mushi" is japanese, i think you mean "muschi" and about the "most english speaking people know no other language" claim, thats just my personal experience with aussies, brits and americans, i hope and believe that there are exceptions, and just because english is todays lingua franca, is no reason to be ignorant about other cultures or languages or belittle them, just look what happened to the roman empire, didn´t them any good to think that they were better than the rest of the world (same goes for the british empire, which btw established english as most important language of the modern world, no matter what you americans might think!)
I was informed that English is the language of money. If you learn english it would better your chances of landing a good job. Because the US is and has been the largest market for awhile. MONEY RULES!
Seagull-
I am an "English speaking (person)" and I happen to know a good amount of Korean too.
As far as being ignorant of other cultures (specifically the german), German culture is fairly mixed in with America. We work hard, are technology driven, eat sausages, drink beer and drive VWs. How German can you get?
lol @ booddles!! plus german words are more and more common in the u.s. as well, just think of "über", "dreck" , "kitsch" and other words which are adopted by many americans. that´s cuz germany is sooo über-cool, just look at our hip hop culture!!
My last name is German (Kurtz). Does that count?
We are all living in Amerika! Amerika is wunderbar.
Question, how is the "U" in Uber pronounced? Is it like the "ou" in you or "uh" in ugly?
@kodega: first of all the correct spelling is "über" with the two dots of "motörhead"fame also known as trema or diaeresis on the u. the pronounciation is hard to explain, as it is neither of your two suggestions. i can´t think of any word in english where the "u" sounds like the german "ü", so i have to leave you with the wikipedia explanation: "The letter Ü occurs in the Yakestonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar and Tatar Latin alphabet alphabets, where it represents a close front rounded vowel (/y/)." in german however it´s not part of the regular alphabet, it serves as a simplification of the combination "u+e" and sounds like a mix of the "ou" sound in "you" and the "y" in words like "syllable", maybe i can find a good example you can listen to somewhere on the net. hope that helps!
uber needs an umlaut which I obviously lack with this keyboard hence it changes the pronounciation to something like the "ou" in "you" as you suggested. Perhaps more like an "ooh" like in "zoo". There's not a really close word I can think of at the moment.
Maybe "moon". Ah fuck it, I give up.
i found a nice "über" sung by a famous german entertainer called reinhard mey, just ignore the two crazy girls and listen to the song (it´s called "über den wolken" which means above the clouds), it´s exactly at 00:40!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rsPqMmvQg&search=%C3%BCber
this should clarify it for you...
"Seagull- you had to learn English in your german schools because you got your asses kicked by English speakers two wars in a row. If you had managed to goosestep into New York City and Washington, DC, then we would be speaking German now. You didn't and we aren't. 'Nuff said. "
If u bein serious bout dat, it just proves the other kid was right.
I myself couldn't lough bout dat clip, despite the fact dat I'm German, it just wasn't funny.
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Steven_Seagull, you must be new here, I wouldn't respond to every dipshitcomment on this site, I wouldn't respond at all!
post a vid about germany on youtube or some site like that and you will inter alia get comments like "hey, i love germany, i was there for half a year..blabla" and stuff like that. heres an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXc2AM5RGQ&search=german
but not here, this ist fucking muchosucko mkay?! just look the comments on some old vids up, is a black person in it the whole debate was prolly about race with a lot of racism, is it about a foreign country, about someone getting seriously hurt... etc etc. etc. ITS ALL THE SAME IGNORANT BS!
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I guess it IS true...Germans have no sense of humor.
hey Im german and i think it is (for someone who doesnt speak german) funny! not really creative or something, but its still funny.
HAHAH, I waß juast kiding u lidel sauaerbratwusastell u!!
Mrs. Homorun- what the fuck language is that you are typing? At least the Kraut is able to use proper English and not that niggerized bull shit you are puking on your keyboard.
aww monkeyfuck, c'mon man, FUCK YOU. Everybody knows the Yanks are the most hated people on the planet so stop that silly "Kraut" bullshit!
PS: Go suck your granny's ass out!
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