[Applause] christopher thank you so much for being here i told you by stage i am a huge fan of yours and uh your performance in in glorious bastards i think ruin has ruined my marriage because every time that movie comes on i can't stop watching it and i'm always watching you i loved your performances blue blue what's that blue blue blue blue you interrupted me for blue blue no one gets away with that but you christophe quiet blue blue thank you for being here though very excited you know what i
love me about i love about love me i slept there i can't speak tonight because of the google uh you are such an amazing actor you're so intense uh in that movie you can be so in glorious bastards you're so charming and then suddenly this dead-eyed stare that you can give that i find so chilling that you're giving me right now yeah you're so good at that uh i know that you are there are uh you're from austria is that that's right and uh there are like many americans unfortunately i don't know en
ough about the rest of the world and i'm familiar with familiar with germany but i don't know the the difference say in the culture between say austrians and germans can you enlighten us oh the difference between austrians and germans is like the difference between a uh a battleship and uh a waltz a battleship and a waltz that's about the difference between really yeah so there's really not a lot of similarities is what you're saying how are the austrians different i mean i know there's the the
germans there's the cliche which is they have no sense of humor do they that's not a cliche it's just 100 percent true well it's it's it's sort of you know um germans i i hope i'm not hurting anybody's feelings again but james does go out on television yeah i mean the germans might hear about this well you know they won't they won't hear about this please speak freely it's just thank you it's just it's just us in a fake movie please speak thank you i think germans always go for for a head-on col
lision you know and and it's it's never it's it doesn't it rarely has sort of grace and melody and rhythm it's just and uh i know irony there's no sense of they just say exactly what they mean exactly everything else is is dubious and slimy and they're suspicious of yeah yeah i'm highly dubious and slimy so yeah i love it when a guest just comes out and says that uh but you uh austrians then have a sense of humor they're well it's it's austrians tend to make their lives easier so first of all th
ey are very polite and second they don't mean it so and and it's just you know a mode of communication and exchange and in between you have a sip so um you know what can go wrong very nice well i'm irish i understand yeah exactly well the same way we are very nice but we don't mean it no absolutely but but but you know ireland has nine literature nobel prize winners nine yeah i mean that says something for communication in a culture yes and um and um that the difference between in all seriousnes
s if that's appropriate at all no we'll cut this part out um the difference between austrians and germans is very much like english and irish right very much right there's the there's there's more of the sense of the silly and the absurd
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As a certified German, I can assure, that we have great sense of humor. This video, for example, almost made me smirk slightly, but I had to go back to work.
"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian." - Billy Wilder, a Hollywood legend and a native of Vienna.
WW1: Because someone shot an Austrian. WW2: Because someone didn’t shoot an Austrian.
That blue-blue thing could've been painfully awkward in another talk show but Conan somehow managed to make it freaking funny.
Billy Wilder: 'The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.'
Guy that speaks 12 languages: "blue blue"
My mother was German and was one of the funniest and witty people I ever knew. In highschool we were the house where the kids hung out alot because of my mom's humor and no filter vocabulary. Miss you and love you mom.
Spike Milligan's in his war memoirs talks about meeting a former German soldier after the war. It turned out they had both served in the artillery and had actually been firing shells at eachother in some of the same battles in North Africa. After meeting, the German gentleman sent spike a note which read something like "Dear Spike, it was a pleasure to finally meet you. Sorry I missed you in 1942." Hilarious!
"Blue blue." - Christoph Waltz
In heaven the Germans are the mechanics, the Italians are the cooks, and the British are the police. In hell, the Germans are the police, the British are the cooks, and the Italians are mechanics.
We sometimes get a few Germans checking into the hotel I work at. I have seen MANY nationality’s but the Germans have always been the friendliest, politest, and funniest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Just thinking about them makes smile. Such good people!
This is why I love german style of flirting. It's all straight to business, no mind games, no unnecessary drama, just a mutually beneficial transaction
My grandparents are German and they have these hilarious conversations, but save the laughing until the end because its more efficient.
A British family adopts a baby from Germany. They name the boy Gus, short for Gustav. He’s a studious infant, rarely crying and rarely causing much a fuss. The baby grows into a serious but healthy little boy, the only hiccup is that he doesn’t talk. The parents don’t care, they love Gus and he’s a great kid overall. Then, one day, when Gus is seven, the family is at a restaurant and out of nowhere, for the first time EVER, Gus lifts his head and tells the waiter his soup is cold. His parents are blown away, Gus can speak!! They wipe the tears from their eyes and ask if he can speak, why hasn’t he spoken til now? Gus ponders for a moment and replies: “Up until now, everything has been satisfactory”.
As a german i can asure you, we HAVE a sense of humor. we can certainly sense if humor is involved and we find it quite facinating.
the serenity and composure of this man is beyond me, a true gentleman
Germany has its own Canada.
For Germans, a situation may be serious but never hopeless. For Austrians, a situation may be hopeless but never serious.
As an Italian who studied in UK with the Erasmus scholarship (pre-Brexit) and met other people from all over Europe, Germans were always friendly, ready for a joke, they were the only ones who got my puns based on stereotypes who are widely known in Italy...they tend to have a matter of fact humor that's not always easy to catch, but so are the people from my part of Italy so 🤷♀️
I'm Polish that lived 7 years in Ireland and now I'm over 10 years living in Austria. His description of Austria and Germany being like Ireland and Britain is spot on. That's how I always explain the difference I feel between Austria and Germany