Open Culture:
There are myriad New Year’s Eve customs worldwide. In Japan, toshikoshi soba noodles are eaten to bring in the coming year. In North America, finding someone to share a New Year’s Eve kiss with as the clock winds down has become a boon to the romantically-challenged. In Germany, however, a different tradition has taken form: every year on December 31st, TV networks broadcast an 18-minute-long black and white two-hander comedy skit.
It’s a very sweet little bit of comedy.
Great character work, too.
Though Freddie Frinton was British, and he performed the Dinner for One skit many times at the popular seaside resort of Blackpool, the film has never been broadcast in the UK, and is not widely known here.
Really? I didn’t know that.