The auto-generated subtitles are terribly inaccurate. Schmidt's text as Hitler is actually: 10:06 "I am warning emphatically, mainly the young people, not to join right-wing radical parties." 10:14 "Don't be driven to xenophobia, violence and racism. This ends in a catastrophe - I know what I am talking about!" 10:22 "Those who do not believe me can watch "The Downfall": it's brilliant. Bruno Gantz was better than I was in some of the scenes! Bruno: Good luck for winning an Oscar." 10:37 Title card: "The Führer cautions you: Fight the Beginnings!" ("Wehret den Anfängen" has been a common saying since the 1950s not to allow any tendencies towards Neo-Nazism.)

@Ydna75

7 ай бұрын

it is crazy how bad the subtitles are. They differing and basically stating the opposite and are misleading ....thx to trying to putting them right @kaibroeking9968

@MatthiasFuchs-sj1wv

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, the subtitles ruin the joke almost entirely.

@SidneyKenson

7 ай бұрын

@@Ydna75 The problem is the wind machine in combination with how HS had spoken in that clip. The automatic subtitles get thrown off by that, and then parse it through a translator, and the chaos is complete. Thanks @kaibroeking9968 for a better version for all non-native German speakers.

@HansKuhlmann

6 ай бұрын

Damn right, some of Schmidt's jokes get lost in translation.

@Pintkonan

5 ай бұрын

dude wtf are you talking about? "Wehret den Anfängen" is literally a roman proverb invented by Ovid himself! wtf, really dude, wtf! you got your internet license, i see...

I miss the Harald Schmidt Show. He is highly intelligent, unapologetic and always on point.

@jonnyjohnson4734

7 ай бұрын

Ja, er war klasse, so jemanden kann man schwer ersetzen

@the_babbleboom

22 күн бұрын

damals schon drittklassik, und das ist noch zu großzügig. der und pocher waren wirklich nie so weit voneinander.

@muncangel5993

20 күн бұрын

BS

@meinnaame6988

15 күн бұрын

He wouldn't stay on a German TV screen for ten seconds in today's streamlined, censored main stream media!! Rather the'd pull the plug for the complete station. Mostly, because he is NOT WOKE, NOT political correct, and UNADJUSTED.

@dieZera

15 күн бұрын

@@meinnaame6988 that's the beauty of it

He was the German David Letterman and considered one of the most sarcastic and have been one of the most extreme examples of dark humor portrayed in German TV. A true legend. Lutz van der Horst, Jan Böhmermann or Ralf Kabelka worked on Harald Schmidts Show for years, which nowadays have quite a reach in German scene of political satire and at least I consider Dirty Harry the most influential satirist in Germany of the last decades. There are a couple of good ones by him, especially when it comes to explaining theatre plays or great pieces of literature in an entertaining funny way with playmobil figurines or like portraying stereotypical daily scenarios, like train rides in sketches that feel like Loriots work simply by observing other germans.

@wingedhussar1117

7 ай бұрын

He "was"?!! RIP Harald :(

@Nitramrec

7 ай бұрын

@@wingedhussar1117 Auf course "he was", because many years ago he stopped making satire on TV and prefers to do a role in a shallow TV-series ("Traumschiff" = "Ship of dreams").

7 ай бұрын

He was so Letterman, that he copied the entire set and even the cup on his table... 😏

@gehtdichnixan3200

7 ай бұрын

i guess böhmermann would consider him a nazi by now but böhmerman is totaly out of his mind

@gehtdichnixan3200

7 ай бұрын

@@wingedhussar1117 heis alive but retired

It's actually not uncommon to parody Hitler in Germany... I've often heard from foreigners that the whole WWII time period is a taboo subject in Germany, when in fact it's quite the opposite. You learn a lot about it in school, there a tons of parodies, historical films, sketches, and many people talk and make fun of it in private, etc... The only thing that is not allowed is praising the Nazi regime or displaying their symbols (Swastika, Nazi salute, etc.) in a manner that shows support for it.

@Kokuswolf

7 ай бұрын

And doing jokes about the victims is a valid taboo. To make fun of the offender is totally different from making fun of the victim.

@philippk736

7 ай бұрын

@@Kokuswolf Yes, I agree. Though I have to admit that my family is Polish and we live in Germany and we generally all laugh about the time and people, also the victims, especially my grandparents (who were taken prisoners by Germans as children). The argument simply being, the time was shitty enough already, best way to handle it now is with humour all the way =D

@Kokuswolf

7 ай бұрын

@@philippk736 I'm a little relieved to hear you say that. To put it bluntly, I think only those affected or descendants of those affected should allow this. A bit like the N-word. It is simply something that does not or should not belong to the descendants of the perpetrators. At least in my opinion. There is a form of respect and humility in this.

@placiddocu

7 ай бұрын

may i just add, if you search for german documentations youll everytime get about 50% docus for the topic WWII and NS-regime.

@marxel4444

7 ай бұрын

I mean look how impressive the movie "Er ist wieder da" is. It pulls NO PUNCHES on hitler.

Harald Schmidt is an Icon of german comedy and was for many years Germany's King of late Night shows.

Dang, the automatic translation is bad....

@admiral_alman8671

7 ай бұрын

Could be worse

@garage6346

7 ай бұрын

It's horrible

@mickeymaus1

7 ай бұрын

Same thoughts - it could be much more worse… the meaning and starting jokes are well translated further he still have the audio too to get an impression about what’s going on - at all it’s okay Only the sync of the joke itself was not very well

@leabrunner6102

7 ай бұрын

Indeed, you can't follow. The meaning gets completely lost.

@Schwuuuuup

7 ай бұрын

@mickeymaus7925 Did we read the same subtitles?? The sentence "Lassen Sie sich nicht hineintreiben in Fremdenhass, Gewalt, Rassismus. Das endet in der Katastrophe." was translated to "Don't laugh, do n't drive them into it, friend after violence practice offered the end of which I was happy" instead of "Do not allow yourself to be driven into xenophobia, violence, racism. That will end in disaster." I mean yes maybe you get the gist of it, but calling this a "translation" is a bit far fetched. ;-)

The Harald Schmidt Show was legendary. Very intelligent, very cynical, sketches and takes always so on point that it hurts

Harald Schmidt is the GOAT of german Late Night Talk!

@giulioboobzilla

2 күн бұрын

U mean „Lame Night“

Harald Schmidt said in an interview about his former apprentice Jan Böhmermann: „I knew from the beginning that Böhmermann wouldn‘t make it as a talk show host. But at the same time I knew he would make his career as a troublemaker.“ I guess there is quite an animosity between the two nowadays.

Dark humor, comedy, satire and deep sarcasm, hided behind the best host ever.

Fun fact: Harald Schmidt was actually Jan Böhmermanns mentor. Böhmermann was his side act in the show and worked years for Schmidt.

@jb428

7 ай бұрын

And now he turned into a completely a..hole.

@maxgehtdnixan4913

7 ай бұрын

And now Schmidt is ashamed of him.

@lucabeckr

7 ай бұрын

Böhmermann hat schon viel gutes geliefert, aber selbst die mittelmäßigsten Sachen von Schmidt waren immer noch besser als das beste von Böhmermann.

@sweetasbro0

7 ай бұрын

Now Böhmermann is ashamed of Schmidt.

@Dek4DenZ

7 ай бұрын

@@sweetasbro0 Böhmermann who?

To be precise, Harald Schmidt was the first guy on German television to break with traditional formats and conventions. He started with the show "Schmidteinander" together with Herbert Feuerstein (RIP), with a format similar to US late-night talks but with many small sketches and satirical clips, most of them had something to do with current political and social events. This program was broadcast under public service on the stateTV station WDR. In many ways, Harald Schmidt was a role model for all of the comedians and satirists who later emerged on German television. In 1995 he switched from public television to a private station with "Die Harald Schmidt Show", the format he started with was based on the "Letterman Show" or "Tonight Show", but there were sketches and so like " Schmidteinader". From 2004 to 2011 he came back to public television, but from 2011 to 2014 public demand ebbed again on private television. I think not at least because the private broadcaster that published tried to use Harald Schmidt as a hook for more viewers, which, however, did not give him afollow. Harald Schmidt must be considered a TV and comedy great in Germany.

The one and only Harald Schmidt I knew early on that Böhmermann would never make it as a presenter - but I also knew that he would go very far as a riot box.”

The subs are sub-optimal to say the least.

What he actually says as "Hitler" in the end is:

@Enyavar1

7 ай бұрын

Can confirm, that is a better translation! And yes, it was plenty controversial 15+ years ago, mainly yes, because it was late-night prime time (22:00?) and his was the most watched late night show due to the lack of other serious contenders. On the other hand, nothing Schmidt did there was illegal, and the stunt did indeed serve the educational purpose of warning against fascism. Comedians have dared before and after this to parody Hitler, but there is a reason why this is the most clicked YT video of Harald Schmidt. He is himself an excentric figure and often just produced nonsense, which was only funny in longer context or even over multiple episodes, and lots of it seems lame today. Typically, his episodes are much longer than this, so there was more stuff before and after.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

7 ай бұрын

lol... Not only the google translator...

Harald Schmidt was unique with his guests as well. If a guest was down to earth, real and honest, he had no problems stepping back and let the guest "take over" the show. He really enjoyed these kind of guests, also was very willing to take any punch they threw at him. They just had a great time together. If on the other hand a guest was like full of himself or just plain stupid, Schmidt would completely roast that guest without him/her ever noticing. Probably THE master of sarcasm.

Lindenstraße was the German equivalent of East Enders - a weekly soap opera that ran over 30 years, and on a regular basis touched on societal matters. It sported the first all male kiss on German TV.

@jkb2016

7 ай бұрын

I think it was even the very first German soap. Fun fact: Til Schweiger's breakthrough role was on this show =)

@helloweener2007

7 ай бұрын

Coronation Street was the model for Lindenstraße

@elevenseven-yq4vu

7 ай бұрын

The actor portraying Hitler in several movies, who was mentioned by Harald Schmidt during the introduction, had been playing the role of a medical doctor in Lindenstraße for years, and for the most part of this role the doctor was confined to a wheelchair. This role the actor was most prominent for in Germany, almost exclusively. Hardly anyone had watched the international productions with Hitler. Hence the multiple wheelchair references in Schmidt's commentary on the Hitler movie stills with the same actor. Like Lindenstraße itself, the role of disabled Doktor Dressler used to be a household name with any Germans who owned a TV set.

Best late night moderator we ever had. He is very much missed in the german media. He is a gem !

Harald Schmidt pushed the boundaries so long and so far, he was free to do, whatever he wanted on TV. Breaking Taboos during his late night shows was his trademark.

@zellhaufen8583

9 күн бұрын

I didn't watch him much but once the he was eating grilled chicken during the entire show. Wasn't very funny, more like improvisation.

Jan Böhmermann used to work for Harald Schmidt in the beginning of his career. As well as other famous comedians. Today their relationship is difficult.

@Guiltank

7 ай бұрын

Böhmemann is not a talented comedian not even a comedian. He does propaganda for woke fascism.

Satire done right in my opinion. I've watched Harald Schmidt in his prime and he wasn't just funny but also an idol with a great moral compass. Some hated him because they didn't understand his sarcasm. But Germany needed that at that time.

@giulioboobzilla

2 күн бұрын

„great moral compass“? LoL. Making jokes about starving children is not Sarcasm - he’s a hypocrite.

Maybe you should watch some old episodes of "Schmidteinander" a show Harald Schmidt made with Herbert Feuerstein who was chief editor for the German MAD magazine for a while. Those two had really great chemistry.

@herbertbalzac

7 ай бұрын

Those two were the best. If you're looking for something in that vein (and clearly modeled after Schmidt & Feuerstein), I recommend the Austrian show "Willkommen Österreich" or anything by Stermann & Grissemann really. Dirk Stermann is German, Christoph Grissemann is Austrian, so you get a similar chemistry. They also recorded some hilarious prank calls (e.g. Huste-Oma).

There is nothing and no one today that can come close to Harald Schmidt.

@andreasboose5611

7 күн бұрын

Totally agree with you 👍😎

Harald Schmidt is one of the greatest people in German Showbiz of all time. It was often politically incorrect but most, if not always, he got the point. Nowadays no-one could do something like this without getting cancelled immediately. Well, in other words: It was better then!

@johannsobieski1780

7 ай бұрын

Ich vermissen Harald Schmidt . Nun habe ich den KZread-Kanal von einem seiner Gagschreiber entdeckt. Bernd Zeller aus Jena bringt täglich ein einminütiges Video heraus. Ich verpasse keines mehr. Herr Zeller haut Dinger raus die mich sehr stark an Harald Schmidt erinnern. Viel Vergnügen und Grüße aus Berlin P.S. Sein Kanal heißt „Zeller Zeitung“, sein neustes Video :“Senior-Influencer 3. November 2023“

Harald is an intellectual legend in Germany 😂

@johannsobieski1780

7 ай бұрын

Ich habe ich den KZread-Kanal von einem seiner Gagschreiber entdeckt. Bernd Zeller aus Jena bringt täglich ein einminütiges Video heraus. Ich verpasse keines mehr. Herr Zeller haut Dinger raus die mich sehr stark an Harald Schmidt erinnern. Viel Vergnügen und Grüße aus Berlin P.S. Sein Kanal heißt „Zeller Zeitung“, sein neustes Video :“Senior-Influencer 3. November 2023“

Harald Schmidt aka Dirty Harry. He is clearly on of the BEST. Pure gold. He wouldn't happen in 2023 apparently . But he was the best

This famous Hitler parody comes from 2005 and Harald Schmidt was the only one who had the balls to present it in such a TV format at that time, as far as I remember, and of course and as always in his unique and inimitable way. Harald Schmidt is the "titan" in the German TV scene and THE late night master par excellence, unrivaled and unforgettable. Harald Schmidt can sometimes pack in more biting satire in only one sentence than some others in a whole performance, a bit exaggerated but the concept fits. Many miss him on TV, but many are glad that he left TV, because hardly anyone polarizes as much as he does, you like him or you hate him, there is no in-between. He doesn't conform and doesn't bend for anything or anyone and he doesn't care at all whether people like him or not. We need a lot more people of his caliber in public life again in Germany. I really like people with their own rough edges, and yes, personally, I'm a fan and very happy that he still makes public appearances from time to time. Harald Schmidt is also a good theater actor and passionate literature fan, which many people don't know.

Harald Schmidt was a very cynical and sarcastic show-host... A living legend! - Too bad, he has mostly retired.

Harald Schmidt is a true free spirit. And he is clever enough with his wording so he can touch any political third rail without ever been grilled.

He is a language genius . KZread transcripcion is far away from make you understand the hints and hidden jokes. He roasted another tv host , made laugh of the lindestrasse . Teased the nxxi syx orgie rumors from a guy whose father was a character in peaky blinders and at least PR for the movie " der Untergang " . All this because it aired in 2004/5 .

"Dirty Harry" was a gem of German TV. If with Herbert Feuerstein (RIP) in Schmidteinander or solo in the Harald Schmidt Show. Always pushing boundaries, always at the edge of bad taste and sarcastic to the core. He did things in his show that would´ve killed others - like hosting his show completely in french or sitting with his back to the audience. But he is Harald Schmidt and he could do what ever he wanted. Greatly missed! You might also enjoy a very old TV show called "Ein Herz und eine Seele". It was based on the british "Till Death Us Do Part". The main charakter was Alfred Tetzlaff who was called "Ekel Alfred" (creepy? nasty? Alfred). The charakter was a right wing German who was an a-hole to everyone and a narcist. Sadly I could find only one clip out of that show with english subs...but maybe someone else can find something? It´s realy worth it. Funny side note: my father was sadly very right wing and thought Tetzlaff was awesome cause he agreed on so many things the charakter said. But Tetzlaff was played by Heinz Schubert, who fought in 2nd WW and was a prisoner of war by the brits, but actually quite left winged. My father wouldn´t understand the irony and sarcasm in it. Still makes me giggle when I think about it.

I have the feeling as well, that we are not bothered about Hitler parodies here in Germany. It is quite a relaxing way to tackle this dark subject. Mert, if you ever have the chance I highly recommend the film mentioned in the video, "The Downfall" with Bruno Ganz as Hitler. Ganz was a fantastic actor and in this film he is just brilliant.

He improvised a lot in his show, some of his best bits are just random fun they had. Like changing the tires on the band leaders porsche because they had no idea what else to do that day.

@Vatvor

7 ай бұрын

One of the funniest Harald Schmidt shows I saw was with Anke Engelke as a guest. I don't think there was anything scripted between the two of them that evening.

@crazycatmyri

7 ай бұрын

@@Vatvor yes, that was a great show! I loved a lot when they reenacted a trip on the train and talked about the contents of their lunch boxes. Also always wonderful: things explained with Playmobil.

@ralphkuehnert5814

7 ай бұрын

Böhmermann was in the production-team of the Harald Schmid Show 😉

Harald is very fast, does a lot of temporary references, together with the bad Google translation, its very difficult to get him.

Böhmermann is a Worm compared to Harald Schmidt!!!

"Coronation street" was the blueprint for "Lindenstraße".

@juttaweise

24 күн бұрын

yeah maybe, but CStreet was sooo much better. Loved it in the 60ies when living in London. The acting was so much better then those of Lindenstraße.

Harry is a living legend.

Harald war so cool, im TV und auch live im Studio in Köln Mülheim

German TV shows and acts are usually really unfiltered.There are no censor beeps or anything like that to make it more family friendly or toned down. People either like you in your entirety or they don't. The downside to this is that people rarely get second chances, once you break your reputation it's over. I'd put it simply by the Germans don't really roll with the better-not-offend-anybody approach, people tend to prefer unfiltered art.

@KaiHenningsen

7 ай бұрын

Also, there was always the risk of the BR deciding to switch to local programming if the national one was deemed too risky - basically anything bad about CSU politicians and their friends.

More of Harald Schmidt please! He's great! I guess it's really hard to translate him because he often combines current things with historical ones. There is a lot of knowledge needed from current gossip to complex thoughts about politics. He's the master of comparisons and he is also very intellectual-educated, fast-thinking and a lot of the humor comes from dialogue or from thinking outside the box. Many jokes worked best in that time and not so well years after. But he's really great! Some of his best stuff is also the best stuff of german satire.

Harald Schmidt was a Genius.

@muncangel5993

2 күн бұрын

Still is ;-)

For Generation X‘ers like myself Harald Schmidt is the grandmaster of german humor. These jokes nowadays would result in instant cancellation from public media because young people would be constantly offended.

@waltergro9102

7 ай бұрын

Politicians would be constantly offended. They got less tolerant.

@FelonyArson

7 ай бұрын

No, it really wouldn't result in instant cancellation. Young people being constantly offended is a stupid stereotype. The most constantly offended people in germany are Boomers who cry about the green party, gendern and Klimakleber like 9000 times a second

@lennardschneider6847

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, nowadays they all have sticks up their butts again and are constantly offended by "violations" which only exist in their narrow-minded perception. My generation, the ones born in the wild 60 and grown up in the psychedelic 70s and civil disobediant 80s are turned off by those Walking Dead, accurately strict, no sense of humor, like our great grandparents had risen from their gaves 🙄

@MaxMustermann-zr6kf

7 ай бұрын

I call Bullshit! This humor is still widley accepted - and your sentiment is like a propaganda trope from the alt right side of the two sided coin with the other side being cancel culture. Both positions are stupid and often post-factual! Icchh warrrne nachdrrrücklich Sie SchweinHund!

2:13 Lindenstraße was The Soap in Germany, running weekly for decades. It was typical German drama style in its realism and soberness. Just told daily life of families in a neighborhood in Cologne. It also tried its best to be a mirror of German society and its progression. I don’t know the context of Haralds joke but it is absurd in some sense, for me conveying the sarcastic message „Well that’s how daily life in Germany looks like“

@alicemilne1444

7 ай бұрын

Lindenstraße was supposed to be set in Munich, even if most of the actual interior filming was done in Cologne.

@LiebeGruesse

7 ай бұрын

@@alicemilne1444 Right! Omg! 😅

@alicemilne1444

7 ай бұрын

@@LiebeGruesse I was living in northern Bavaria when the thing started. At the time I thought, "Coronation Street in Munich but with far too posh accents".

@Arsamenes1

7 ай бұрын

I am pretty sure, that Harald Schmidts pun was referring to the fact, that Lindenstraße made Neonazism a main subject of the series for quite a while in the 1990s.

2:20 Lindenstraße is basically Germany's answer to Coronation Street Great to see 'Dirty Harry' on your channel! Shame the auto subtitles didn't really work. Tricky though with quite a few references and in-jokes.

@juttaweise

25 күн бұрын

NO, Coronation Street was much much better, Lindenstraße was a bad copy. That phrase I learned the quickest was: "shall I put the cettle on then?"....... best tuition to learn down to earth english and getting to understand the seriousness of making tea hahahahaha

I like how you look up the things you do not get.

@juttaweise

24 күн бұрын

yes find that really very clever, teaches him som german at the same time! Great idea!

I'm not German, but I grew up with German television. I think in German comedy there is more trust in people understanding the context and whether something like that is satire or not. That's also true of British comedy. I feel that especially in the US, certain words or jokes are not allowed, no matter what the context is. As a European, I find that sad.

@johannsobieski1780

7 ай бұрын

Hallo hier ein Vertreter des deutschen Humores der extraklasse. Viel Vergnügen mit dem bitter bösen Humor von Gerhard Polt. Gehe zu: "Gerhard Polt - Mai Ling Original ungekürzt"

@juttaweise

24 күн бұрын

Well George Carlin was often very blunt and sarcastic concerning the US. I often wondered how he got away with much of what he did!

thanks for sharing that. I always watched Harald Schmidt when I was younger. the best satire show in Germany!

dont ever compare Böhmermann with Schmidt...Schmidt is a honest and true person and a legend.

Basically every village has a shooting club and each year they host a festival, where people can also show their shooting skills. The person who is best then is declared shooting king/queen. At least where I live I think the club/festival crowd will then walk to the winner's house in a parade with music and everything and he/she needs to provide beer and other beverages for everyone. I heard the neighbours were "very happy" when their daughter unexpectedly was the winner several years ago.🙃 "Die Sterntaler" is a Grimm-fairy tale about a poor orphan girl who asks several people for food and warm clothes and in the end the stars fall down like gold and she collects them with her dress. "Stern" is star and "Taler" can probably be translated as coin(s), so "Sterntaler" literally translates to "star coins".

He is Harald Schmidt, he can do what ever he want's. Very nice guy actually :)

The actor playing Hitler in various roles at the beginning was also a very long time actor on the german soap opera Lindenstrasse. So saying "That could also be from the Lindenstrasse" was pure Satire.

To be perfectly honest: I think Harald Schmidt is a rather difficult comedian to react to as a non-german speaker. He talks very fast, the subtitles are hanging a lot, he mentions a lot of names that you probably aren't familiar with and you can really see how his show was constructed around a returning audience.

Harald Schmidt is really hard to translate (i guess, even for a proper interpreter - let alone by Google-translate 🙈). The way he interrupts himself and doesn't finish his sentences seems random at frist sight but it is all very well staged/planned and has a precise purpose. Also the tone of voice is crucial to get his humour. On top, he's really fast and jumping from one allusion to another.... Plus he referes to specific German cultural phenomenas a lot... Kudos to any non-native speaker who gets him.

😂 ich fall vor Lachen gleich vom Sessel....😂😂😂

"Sterntaler" is a fairytale from a poor girl who gifted everything she has/wear to others. In the end she has only a little shirt. Than the stars fell down as goldcoins (Taler)

Great reaction 👍🏻 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

Jan böhmermann worked with Harald Schmidt once

Lindenstraße was for Germany, what Coronation Street was for the UK.

A great german author, Kurt Tucholsky, famously wrote in 1919: "What is satire allowed to do? - Everything!" Tucholsky used several pseudonyms like Ignaz Wrobel and Theobald Tiger, so don't get confused by names.

We used to have British neighbours and one evening we were playing cards. At the end I accompanied my friend to the garden gate. While passing the terrace of my neighbour”s house, I saw they had a costume party and they all saluted one person dressed as Hitler with one arm raised marching through the room. I stood there watching, shocked and immobile. You should have been there!

Subtitles are kinda useless...

This humor and act shows good cool distance, worked out history, smashing all taboos of this theme...brilliant

Fun Fact: Jan Böhmermann was a writer for The Harald Schmidt Show in his early years!

Lindenstraße was the German EastEnders.

I visited one of his shows once... and it was a live show. In the commercial break he still entertained the audience at the set.

Harald Schmidt was the godfather of German Satire during the 90s until about 2012. He still is a great comedian with a great intellect.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

7 ай бұрын

Ähm, nö...

schmidt was always controversial, it was his whole brand. to this day some regard him as the best thing ever put on german television, others dislike him for being outrageous and a scandal whore. i am kinda in the middle there, he has definitely gone for some very low hanging fruit just for the clicks (or views and headlines back then) but his show in the early 2000s with his sidekick manuel andrack was just genius. they'd sometimes just improvise and riff over some banality, its hard to describe why it worked but it did big time

We live in an awesome country to be brave about what we say. Satire is well protected and humor is a big coping mechanism. There are loads of Nazi jokes and parodies around.

even he finally got canceled 😂

Harald Schmidt is a genius and a hero. He can do things that no other comedian can do. Especially now that he's retired. In terms of level, he's perhaps on a par with Loriot, but very sarcastic. Nothing comes much lower than that, and then the rest of the comedians.

Lindenstrasse is a German soap opera inspired by Coronation Street

to answer the question: Yes, this was prime time german television :D

Harald Schmidt was ever the best German Comedian. He ist known for his kontrovers kontant.

Harald Schmidt was the goat in german TV in the 90’s

9:27 Schmidt dissed Böhmermann. It seems that Schmidt doesnt really like Böhmermann 😆

I haven't watched as much of Harald as I would have liked, but the one thing I remember (because it went viral) was when he dubbed that one scene from Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves where Kevin Costner delivers a speech in the woods. If you can get a hold of that with subtitles, I'd absolutely recommend that one.

he is a german comedy legend. He also said the n word multiple times in a show in the 90s. It just shows, this was a different time where you could make bad jokes without a twitter shitstorm. If you wanna see more "hitler paradie" check jan Boehmermann, he also does it sometimes and he is probaly the harald schmidt of our time

I just recently discovered the Harald Schmidt show. I was blown away by his ability to hold a TV audience in thrall while he explained an issue using a Lego diorama, or talked about his time in school in front of a model railway station. Two shows were just him and his sidekick - who, btw, was always taste-testing different brands and types of beer live on the show - and the bandleader playing skat and poker -- smoking and drinking the entire time - on the show, with real money. It's the kind of TV that would cause a standards and practices guy in the US to do himself in, I suppose.

Harald Schmidt was brilliant. He did things regularly, that nobody else could do even then. Nowadays even he wouldn´t be allowed to do it.

Ah, die Harald Schidt Show.

The German David Letterman, he is so funny. we Love Harald... schönes Schmitdeinander.

@02:02 - "This could be from the Lindenstrasse", because the actor being Hitler in Hollywood productions was one of the main actors of this series, a doctor called "Ludwig Dressler". That's the link...

_"Die Sterntaler"_ , English: _"The Star Money"_ is acutally a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm. It has got an article in the English wikipedia.

Thats why the Nickname from Harald Schmidt - Dirty Harry is.... 😂

Harald Schmidt is the best!

Satire has always had very broad freedoms in Germany. Fun fact the person who reads the last sentence: "Der Führer warnt: Wehret den Anfängen" is the same person who, for years, narrated a traffic-related show in German TV, called "Der 7. Sinn" (the 7th sense) which pointed out general mistakes that motorists make. His name is Egon Hoegen, his voice and pronounciation is very distinct and all older people in Germany will know him. Actually it might be funny to react to some of the "Der 7. Sinn" episodes. They are usually only a few minutes long, and some of them would be absolutely impossible to air these days (especially the ones with women drivers).

@melchiorvonsternberg844

7 ай бұрын

He's name WAS Egon Hoegen. He died 5 years ago, age 89...

@Arsenic71

7 ай бұрын

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 If you want to get technical, his name still is Egon Hoegen. He's just dead but he didn't change or lose his name when he died.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

7 ай бұрын

@@Arsenic71 I don't wanna argue, so fair enough...

@elevenseven-yq4vu

7 ай бұрын

Oh, these public service announcements from Germany... From the 1950s through to the 1980s and early 1990s, a lot of them (and other similarly styled, short educational 16 mm films, and sometimes VHS) were being shown in German secondary schools - and up into this century in driving schools. Some good spoofs were made on these oldschool clips. The most famous one is "Staplerfahrer Klaus" on workplace security, particularly known for its dark humour, recurrent themes, and gruesome splatter sequences. 😂

Harald Schmidt is sooooo good! Cool Video!

Harald is a genius,with smart comedy,also sometimes he does some flat jokes. i allways liked him

Jan Böhmermann actually did an Internship at Harald Schmidt Show at the beginning of his career

Harald Schmidt, king of nonconformity. There is always this boundary most people don't cross. This is exactly his thing doing what all others don't dare. His goal is to show, that what everybody is calling bad taste, must not necessarily be so.

0:30 The Harald Schmidt Show was aired on various TV Network over the years. In 1995 it actually started on the private channel 'Sat.1' and switched to 'Das Erste' (ARD) in 2004. Later it was aired on 'Sky'.

I am a German. And i Love Harald Schmidt. He is a Longtime latenight master. He make the First latenight Show Here in Style of laterrmenn. He was never in the Prime Time. OK He was one time trying IT. With a spaciel Episode that He make one a ship. That so Epic to watch him fail in that Episode and He was knowing IT donts Run after 10 min and that Episode was 3 hours. He is one of our beste smartes men we have in Germany.

Just to be clear, those were real Adolf pics

Er ist wieder da........👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Wonderful!

Harald Schmidt is a living legend.

ich feiere deine spannenden reaction-videos über "unsere" kabarettistischen klassiker! liebe grüße aus berlin ps: einer der besten deutschen komiker forever: hape kerkeling (alias horst schlämmer, königin beatrix etc. etc.)

Harald Schmidt is probably the toughest one to translate as he is the most sarcastic (he almost never creates a release and leaves it to the audience to figure out if he was serious or not) plus he name drops a lot and if you dont know the people and context you just wont get the joke. Plenty of germans dont get his jokes for that matter.

Harald Schmidt and Jan Böhmermann same Category? Never. Harald Schmidt is Champions League and Jan Böhmermann is Kreisklasse Oberursel.

@dkpianist

7 ай бұрын

Böhmermann is half a fart and Schmidt is THE WURST.

At that time there were the long-running series Dallas, Dynasty, and Lindenstraße :-)