Dinner for One: the British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years

The 1960s TV sketch airs in the UK for the first time, decades after it became integral to New Year’s Eve for Europeans

Ten years ago, on New Year’s Eve, my mother grabbed my English boyfriend’s arm and led him to the television. “It’s time for Dinner for One,” she said excitedly as the whole family gathered – as we do every year – to fall about laughing at an old British black-and-white comedy sketch.

As the opening credits appeared to the sound of a crackling string orchestra, my boyfriend was perplexed but too polite to ask what this was all about. The familiar elegant dining room came into shot with silver chandeliers on a white table cloth. We Germans started to giggle in anticipation of a scene we all knew so well.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GVh3lM