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Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
Olde Farte
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Date: October 19, 2011 07:56AM
There was a comedy routine from, like, 50 to 70 years ago - maybe radio, maybe very early TV - where a well-known comedian demonstrated how English would sound if spoken like German (with trailing nouns or verbs or something) like:
"The man talking on the phone walked down the street"
as
"The man on the phone down the street talking walked"
or something like that (I'm obviously NOT a comedian...). Anyway, I looked into Danny Kaye (who I think is the one) and Victor Borge without success
Anyone got a clue from this vague description?
"The man talking on the phone walked down the street"
as
"The man on the phone down the street talking walked"
or something like that (I'm obviously NOT a comedian...). Anyway, I looked into Danny Kaye (who I think is the one) and Victor Borge without success
Anyone got a clue from this vague description?
Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
oldtvshow
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Date: October 19, 2011 08:21AM
old tv show called laugh in?
Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
graymoose1
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Date: October 19, 2011 08:23AM
Maybe Sid Caesar???
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Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
lilsoilder
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Date: October 19, 2011 08:24AM
Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: October 19, 2011 08:25AM
Olde Farte Wrote:
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> There was a comedy routine from, like, 50 to 70
> years ago - maybe radio, maybe very early TV -
> where a well-known comedian demonstrated how
> English would sound if spoken like German (with
> trailing nouns or verbs or something) like:
>
> "The man talking on the phone walked down the
> street"
>
> as
>
> "The man on the phone down the street talking
> walked"
>
> or something like that (I'm obviously NOT a
> comedian...). Anyway, I looked into Danny Kaye
> (who I think is the one) and Victor Borge without
> success
>
> Anyone got a clue from this vague description?
"The Nobody Remembers and Nobody Gives a Fuck ESSO Comedy Cavalcade"
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> There was a comedy routine from, like, 50 to 70
> years ago - maybe radio, maybe very early TV -
> where a well-known comedian demonstrated how
> English would sound if spoken like German (with
> trailing nouns or verbs or something) like:
>
> "The man talking on the phone walked down the
> street"
>
> as
>
> "The man on the phone down the street talking
> walked"
>
> or something like that (I'm obviously NOT a
> comedian...). Anyway, I looked into Danny Kaye
> (who I think is the one) and Victor Borge without
> success
>
> Anyone got a clue from this vague description?
"The Nobody Remembers and Nobody Gives a Fuck ESSO Comedy Cavalcade"
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
Olde Farte
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Date: October 19, 2011 09:43AM
graymoose1 Wrote:
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> Maybe Sid Caesar???
I'll check that out but I think it was someone a little more "highbrow" than that - both Kaye and Borge fit the mold.
[I didn't see this skit as it happened, of course, but in a recording shown much after-the-fact]
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> Maybe Sid Caesar???
I'll check that out but I think it was someone a little more "highbrow" than that - both Kaye and Borge fit the mold.
[I didn't see this skit as it happened, of course, but in a recording shown much after-the-fact]
Re: Who spoke English like German in a comedy skit?
Posted by:
Jacopian
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Date: October 19, 2011 12:28PM
I think Moose is right, I know Sid Caesar could do that very well. Jerry Lewis also, but nothing like Caesar. Caesar actually used German sounding nonsense verse, not English though.