I can’t get enough of these.
Once again the online news portal of Germany’s public broadcaster ARD tagesschau.de is posting a series of bloopers – some of the funniest on-air gaffes you’re ever likely to see – with a new one every day until Christmas.
Today’s is a special treat because it’s an inadvertent sight gag, so you don’t need to understand a word of German to get it.
Not many people saw it when it aired live about seven years ago, because it happened at 5:30 in the morning, but it has since become one of the best-known German tv news bloopers.
You can see the whole line-up of videos at tagesschau.de. The ones that have already run since December 1 include:
- A newsreader who mistakes the letter N for R and reads out Kurds instead of customers, (Kurde statt Kunde) rendering the entire news item ridiculous. At least he finds it funny, because he giggles through the rest of the newscast. This one must be watched to the very end.
- Another who can’t stop coughing.
- A live interview via satellite where the viewer can see the moderator and the correspondent, but the correspondent can’t hear the moderator, and doesn’t know he’s live and on air.
Enjoy.
© 2007 lettershometoyou
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Aw, I love the guy who gets the giggles. Too funny.
Have you seen this one? (not Tagesschau):
Hi CN – That’s also a good one! Yes, I had seen it before, but I won’t give it away.
CN- Maybe I should climb the mountain.
…but then they’d probably make a report on it with the blooper: but he’s blind!
The thing is I actually remember watching that while getting ready to leave the house. Now I’m not a morning person and it always takes longer for me to grasp things and I do remember sitting there for what must have been minutes just staring at the TV thinking I’d imagined it!
But then Harald Schmidt and Stefan Raab featured it in the following weeks and I was happy I didn’t just go mad [although that is debatable].
I’ll definitely have a look at the others now. Thanks!
Cat,
Your address says you’re in the UK – do you watch the Tagesschau from there? Are you German? Tell me more!
I am German, from a town near Frankfurt, but I moved to the UK about 4 1/2 years ago. Time flies! In the last years I haven’t been much to Germany, infact going back ‘home’ makes me realise just how happy I am being here and just how much I dislike Germany and in fact speaking German. Although I will need to practice my German a little, it’s getting to the point where I can barely construct a coherent sentence. Or even translate the above into German!
You speak German then I take it? And haven’t had the urge to leave Germany yet?!