BERLIN (Reuters) – A skit of “Dinner for One,” the British vaudeville comedy sketch so loved in Germany it holds cult status and is screened every New Year’s Eve, with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy as “Miss Sophie” and her bumbling butler, has become an Internet smash.
In the black and white original, filmed in 1963, Miss Sophie celebrates her 90th birthday with four imaginary guests as butler James darts around the table, pretending to be each of them and downing their drinks, becoming increasingly inebriated in the process.
The skit, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kj4JBf-W0, made for German broadcaster ARD and titled “The 90th euro rescue summit or euros for no one,” has the heads of the German chancellor and French president superimposed over the original actors.
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