Dinner for One
This very British 11-minute comedy sketch from 1963 has become a New Year's Eve viewing tradition in German-speaking countries. Nobody knows why. The sketch is almost completely unknown in the UK.
Dinner for One (1963), also known as The 90th Birthday (German: Der 90. Geburtstag, Swedish: Grevinnan och betjänten), is an 11-minute comedy sketch, written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre that has become a viewing tradition in German-speaking countries, where, since…