Reaction To Harald Schmidt mit genialer Hitler-Parodie | Die Harald Schmidt Show (ARD)

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In this video I react to German talk show host, comedian and satire artist Harald Schmidt and his very interesting parody.
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[@theJcM98]

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]

He "was"?!! RIP Harald :(

[@Nitramrec]

@@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").

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

[@gehtdichnixan3200]

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

[@gehtdichnixan3200]

@@wingedhussar1117 heis alive but retired

[@philippk736]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@marxel4444]

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

[@dieZera]

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

[@jonnyjohnson4734]

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

[@the_babbleboom]

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

[@muncangel5993]

BS

[@meinnaame6988]

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]

@@meinnaame6988 that's the beauty of it

[@kaibroeking9968]

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]

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]

Yeah, the subtitles ruin the joke almost entirely.

[@SidneyKenson]

@@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]

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

[@Pintkonan]

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...

[@one8015]

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

[@Schwuuuuup]

Dang, the automatic translation is bad....

[@admiral_alman8671]

Could be worse

[@garage6346]

It's horrible

[@mickeymaus1]

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]

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

[@Schwuuuuup]

@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. ;-)

[@boraonline7036]

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

[@rudigerk]

Harald Schmidt is the GOAT of german Late Night Talk!

[@giulioboobzilla]

U mean „Lame Night“

[@sorenalexander2023]

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.

[@gastonkawitzke3272]

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

[@Nifuruc]

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]

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

[@sharkey9]

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.

[@christianhohenstein1422]

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]

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).

[@ch.s1292]

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]

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

[@Baccatube79]

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]

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

[@helloweener2007]

Coronation Street was the model for Lindenstraße

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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.

[@StreetCarma]

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.

[@naturalbornswabian6947]

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

[@MrJueKa]

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.

[@Rob-bt7io]

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

[@Enyavar1]

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]

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

[@AnBug242]

Harald is an intellectual legend in Germany 😂

[@johannsobieski1780]

Ich habe ich den KZbin-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“

[@Meckermaxxe]

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

[@Nachtmahr79]

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]

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.

[@philomenaa1939]

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.”

[@chrismunz8127]

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

[@Schnitzengruben]

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

[@maxgehtdnixan4913]

And now Schmidt is ashamed of him.

[@lucabeckr]

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

[@sweetasbro0]

Now Böhmermann is ashamed of Schmidt.

[@Dek4DenZ]

@@sweetasbro0 Böhmermann who?

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]

Ich vermissen Harald Schmidt . Nun habe ich den KZbin-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“

[@BuenoSociety]

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

[@NeaFrea]

The subs are sub-optimal to say the least.

[@DandarDerBabarian]

Böhmermann is a Worm compared to Harald Schmidt!!!

[@wolfgangpeter2995]

Well man.. thats just your opinion.. To say it loosely with the big lebowski 😉

[@henning4070]

Absolutely

[@katb.78]

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.

[@owlhollow3992]

He is a language genius . KZbin 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 .

[@ME-pu9vb]

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

[@andreasboose5611]

Totally agree with you 👍😎

[@CR0MBIE]

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

[@zeisselgaertner3212]

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.

[@punxsu]

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.

[@EmpoerterGeisterfahrer]

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

[@TheFurryTailFosters]

"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.

[@o.b.7217]

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

[@crazycatmyri]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@DaringlyLDN]

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]

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

[@nilsbeckmann3608]

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.

[@erikanders90]

Harald Schmidt was a Genius.

[@muncangel5993]

Still is ;-)

[@dropdeadmuller9499]

Harry is a living legend.

[@Kiyuja]

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]

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.

[@rainermarx5217]

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

[@mabus4910]

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]

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]

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!

[@dergotterbote4039]

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

[@DMSG1981]

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

[@juttaweise]

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.

[@LiebeGruesse]

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]

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

[@LiebeGruesse]

@@alicemilne1444 Right! Omg! 😅

[@alicemilne1444]

@@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]

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.

[@MrTartly]

Harald Schmidt is a class act. Boemermann is a bad joke.

[@DerDrako]

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

[@juttaweise]

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

[@StreetCarma]

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]

Politicians would be constantly offended. They got less tolerant.

[@FelonyArson]

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]

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]

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!

[@DerEineDude]

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

[@verenaarndt2724]

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.

[@Mausbaermann]

Fun Fact: Böhmermann was in the writers team of Harald Schmidt in early days

[@stef987]

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".

[@schnubbel76]

Subtitles are kinda useless...

[@Haexxchen]

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.

[@harryhirsch3637]

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.

[@beageler]

Lindenstraße was the German EastEnders.

[@gina6573]

Jan Böhmermann is absolutely not to compare with Harald Schmidt. Jan Böhmermann is the most hated, whilst Harald Schmidt is much loved and respected

[@herbertw.6280]

I do not think, that Jan Böhmermann is so much hated. He is controversial the same as Harald Schmidt

[@herbertw.6280]

Oh come on!! Really??

[@andreasmartin7942]

The Frankfurter Rundschau loves the guy. As do most 'lefties' I guess.

[@simontroster5665]

Harald war der Chef und Mentor von Jan.

[@germaniatv1870]

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

[@dasaggropop1244]

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

[@disobedientdolphin]

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.

[@tillveerkamp3547]

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

[@hansdampf2005]

Jan böhmermann worked with Harald Schmidt once

[@astaubach01]

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.

[@dagmarszemeitzke]

"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)

[@naturally2729]

Harald Schmidt is the best!

[@uleiosu4582]

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

[@rudi1616]

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

[@superthermite]

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

[@HanzFromHell]

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

[@Arsenic71]

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]

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

[@Arsenic71]

@@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]

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

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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. 😂

[@selini52]

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!

[@ervwhitecoat8023]

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

[@79Testarossi]

Great reaction 👍🏻 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

[@heinzifax]

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.

[@ERICEric-jv1ix]

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.

[@roynoi4662]

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]

Ähm, nö...

[@bavarianwolf3806]

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

[@Jackson-dg2po]

Harald schmidt, one of the greatest Comedians and Showmasters in Germania

[@gabortoth3706]

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.

[@LiebeGruesse]

Böhmermann and other Millennial comedians had worked for and were supported by Schmidt. They both stand for completely different approach though, representing their generation change quite well. Schmidt would never let you expect him to show personal emotion, doubt, serious moral thoughts or insecurity, he is a 100% joker kind of guy. And pure focus on theatre stages and TV. Böhmermann on the contrary uses also Podcast and Twitter to present himself as someone who tries to find moral positions, shows failure as well as insecurity and personal emotions- all while still playing a public sarcastic figure. That makes him much more an attractive surface of attack, but also an authentic role model for his and younger „woke“ generation.

[@tlespielr8919]

@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...

[@xcoder1122]

Harald Schmidt and Jan Böhmermann are both comedians and they both pushed boundaries in their shows but there is a reason why Schmidt has the nickname "Dirty Harry". Both go over the pain threshold, but when Böhmermann then turns around, Schmidt cranks it up even more. Schmidt also had a certain intellectual class that I don't see in Böhmermann. Schmidt is a cynic through and through, Böhmermann is more of a saracstic clown. Even with his grin, you can often tell that Böhmermann isn't serious; Schmidt, on the other hand, has exaggerated things to such an extent that at some point people have asked themselves, "Is he really serious now, or is this still comedy?" Maybe that's because Schmidt has a theater background, which means he was originally a serious stage actor, and that's why he can play something so believably to people that they don't even realize at first that he's taking them for a ride.

[@dieterroth2172]

Er ist wieder da........👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@karlmall]

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

[@gregorgrebe]

Lindenstrasse is a German soap opera inspired by Coronation Street

[@zaphod2342]

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

[@dkpianist]

Böhmermann is half a fart and Schmidt is THE WURST.

[@MaxKoenig-Mk001]

even he finally got canceled 😂

[@wanderwurst8358]

I remember the first broadcast back then and it was just accepted indifferently - it was relatively flat, after all. Harald Schmidt occasionally cracked much better Nazi jokes in passing. It's not that people in Germany don't understand Nazi jokes, but they have to have a certain depth and show that the narrator also understood the mechanics of fascism. Too shallow Nazi jokes are simply an insult to the victims of fascism and only ridicule or relativize a very serious topic. If you were lucky enough to be born in a country that has a strong nationalism or is too cowardly to admit the shameful deeds from their past, then you will be quickly disqualified from making Nazi jokes by a halfway educated German - unless it is really good and profound. Just try it. Not much more can happen to you than being ignored or getting a quick history lesson about your own nation. 😜

[@4gpm]

Harald Schmidt is a living legend.

[@hevog]

Nowadays Hitler parodies are quite common in German cabaret, comedy, late night and in movies. The film “Er ist wieder da” (He is back again) based on a very popular novel, shows Hitler waking up after the downfall in a parking lot in today’s Berlin trying to find his way through modern life in the German capital which is quite hilarious and absurd. The famous German comedian and musician Helge Schneider also played Hitler in a satirical movie called “My Führer- the really real truth about Adolf Hitler” directed by the Jewish filmmaker Dani Levy. The only serios and authentic Hitler representation in a German movie I can think of is in ”Der Untergang” (The Downfall) with the late Swiss actor Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler which he played brilliantly. So, this may be another or new way of coming to terms with the past in Germany. It is always thin ice, of course, but if brilliant people, like Harald Schmidt for example, do the job, it mostly turns out good.

[@Hitman006xp]

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.

[@theyuki-fay-multiverse9086]

Endlich hat Harald den grossen wurf geschafft 😄

[@Mattesgalleon]

Böhmermann used to be a writer at the Harald Schmidt Show.

[@dasaggropop1244]

böhmermann used to work on the harald schmidt show as a writer. i think they had some falling out over the time, twitter beef and all that but he still ironically calls him "papa"

[@timomager2502]

@9:09min LOL. Jan Böhermann was Harald Schmidts sidekick.

[@CanKoepruelue]

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

[@n0wi153]

Harald Schmidt the Godfather of German LateNight. He was the German David Letterman.