Here in Germany, this is a tradition on New Years Eve. It shows at least once on every major German TV station. No one seems to know how the tradition started, but it is one nonetheless. And the production is great, so as a Canadian here, happily adopted it :D

Dinner for One is a tradition to watch on New Years eve in Germany. I came here for that, same procedure as last year.

I am American and my wife is from Deutschland … needless to say we watch this as tradition every NYE..and I love it ! Same procedure every year ! Gutes Neu Jar 2023! 🎉🥂🇩🇪

Pov: it’s New Year’s Eve und ur here

I still watch this every New Years Eve in memory of my mom. It used to be broadcast in South Africa, but now I watch it online just to bask in her memory. Miss you ma. Happy New Year everyone🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️

This is a timeless treasure, and we join the Germans in observing this wonderful tradition. Happy New Year, everyone!

Am German, can confirm this plays on several TV channels at different times to ensure everyone can catch it at some point in the evening.

“Dinner for One” is a comedy sketch that was originally written by Lauri Wylie in the 1920s. The sketch was first performed live in the 1940s and was later adapted for television. The most famous version of the sketch was performed by Freddie Frinton and May Warden in 1963. The sketch has become a New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany and other parts of Europe. It is also known as “Der 90. Geburtstag” (The 90th Birthday).

Hier sind wir alle schon wieder...

I read about this wonderful actor in my Christmas edition of The New European. It explained the tradition of it being shown on German TV each year. Freddie Frinton is the actor, who incidentally was teetotal, which makes his performance even more remarkable. He was born in Grimsby and aged 14, left school to work in a fish processing factory but got the sack for his humorous antics. In 1962, Frinton and May Warden, then 72 years old, were performing Dinner for One at Blackpool Winter Gardens, where two German visitors, Peter Frankenfeld and Heimz Dunkhouse were on the lookout for some good English humour. They found what they were looking for and the rest is history! I write this on 31st December, when in Germany, many families will be looking forward to." The same procedure as last year".

I am 98 and i watch this every year since my birth

My German friend told me this, so I watched on New Years Eve in 2022 as a japanese. Nice :)

As an english person, i learned of this from my german class where apparently this is a tradition and im here to see why

I just saw this on TV a few minutes ago and it didn't disappointed me. I was in tears. 😂🤣

My eldest grand daughter has German connections with her boyfriend. When I shared this sketch with her and then she with them, her ratings went higher and higher with the German family!!! They watch it every year!

My annual New Year’s Eve tradition watching this.

I'm British and watching this for the first time ever.

Almost all North European countries watch this every single Xmas and New Year !

A German guy I was chatting to at a BBQ in NH dragged me up to the house so we could watch this, and he told me it was a super-common New Year's Eve watch in Deutschland. That was fun.

I am Chinese and studied in Germany; I've heard from my colleagues about this new year's eva tradition; my supervisor said he has watched it over 30 times. Good to see this; Happy new year to all. (2023.1.6.)

To everyone who reads this, happy new year!

What a wonderful charming story to discover that this sketch is held in such affection in Europe. Peace through the power of comedy ✌️🕊️

I love how all of us here in the comments, we have something in common. We have a German relative, partner, or someone we know that introduced us to this...

Frohes Neues Jahr an alle! Same procedure as every year! 🎉

It's Nye in Australia today and I missed this on the telly by an hour, so had to come here. Haven't missed seeing this once a year since 1998, just so funny. Thank you Miss Sophie, James and the Tiger.

I see that this version is missing the "preamble" where it's explained that "Miss Sophie's" friends have died before she did and yet she celebrates Christmas dinner by having a table setting in honour of each one of them.

Wishing everyone a happy new year from Sweden! Also a yearly tradition here

This actor is absolutely incredible, haven't seen a lot performances as good as this one! I love this shit so bad, crying tears every single time😁

I am 78 years old and this is the first time I am seeing this. I am trying to get myself up off the floor from laughing so hard. I will also now have to get a replacement keyboard because of all the coffee that came out of my nose watching this early in the morning. What a gem!!🤣

I'm 58 and seeing this first time. Just Brilliant.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Thanks to my German friend I’m start learning about Germany more , the more I’m learning the more it’s interesting big love from Algeria 🇩🇿 happy new year

Ein guten Start in das neue Jahr :D

❤das Sylvester ritual

New Years Eve. Time to warch this for the….53rd timemin my life. Each year on New Years Eve. And yes I was assured I watched this as a baby already. And yes I am German.

Every year without failure this is sent here in Norway on the 23rd of December and I love it so much. Aware that it is more of a New Years Eve setting, but for my family at least it also helps with the Christmas mood.

I’m a nurse and I work in a senior’s home. One of the residents told me to watch this. So glad I did because this is hilarious !!! I’m Canadian 🇨🇦

This has been a traditional watch since 95! Happy 2021 folks

Happy New year 2024 Everyone 🎊🎉🍾🥂❤️🙏😊

I'm not European, I'm Latino this is my first time seeing this I'm watching this every NYE from now on

I came here after King Charles III’s speech in Germany where he referred to it and I’d never heard of this new year tradition

Wieder da auch für dieses Jahr !

I am 82 and live in England. When I was in mt mid teens and on holiday in Blackpool, Lancs. I saw Freddie Frinton on stage, with I believe, Thora Hird as Miss Sophie. It was hilarious then even though I didn't fully understand the significance. It is still a classic to me and my French friends!

ich habe ein kleine Deutsch gelernt, aber ich weiss nicht auf diese skit.... it's hysterical!! Vielen Dank fur diese spirit-lifting clip : )

I am English and lived in Germany from 2008-12. My German friends were amazed when I told them no Brits knew of this scetch they assumed we all watched it

Herrlich, nach Möglichkeit lachen wir Silvester jedesmal über den tollen Schauspieler Freddy Frinton. Vielen Dank, ein gutes neues Jahr 2023!

So wonderful to have found it.. after so many years.. going to share with my adult child. Its a rare piece that can cheer u up any time of the year for time memorial.

At the end of the film on TV, I prepare glasses for champagne ("Sekt" in German) every year. It's a tradition to watch this film as the last TV programm of the year in Austria, too. A Happy New Year 2024 from Vienna for every one ❤

No idea how many times I have watched this! ❤️ Same procedure every year!

Es ist mal wieder Silvester Abend. Rutscht gut rein in 2023. Wilf.

New Years here, and following the same procedure as every year, I have watched this every year here in Australia for the last 31 years. Love it.

I must admit I'd never seen this until I heard about it in the news about King Charles' visit to Germany. I couldn't stop laughing by the end of it. I think I'll make it a personal tradition to watch this on New Year's Eve too from now on.

I watch this every new years. Wherever I am.

This never gets old 😅

My wife and I watch this show every new year.

I remember watching this on new years eve as a kid in 1984...love it

The oldest German Tradition? Why? I Love it. I am 60. My Granny, my Mom. Every year the Same Procedere. In english!!!

Cheers from Germany!🥂

Hadn't heard of this before King Charles speech at Bellevue Palace today.

know how the tradition begin: A German 🇩🇪 men from a German 🇩🇪 television station has made vacation in England. And he saw this "Dinner for one" in a theater in England. And he liked it so much that he invited the man who plays the butler with the woman to the television station in Germany. The two then replayed the piece and the TV cameras 📺 recorded it. Since then it has been broadcast every year since I think 1952 on the WDR (television station) half an hour before midnight on New Year's Eve. And it is now a tradition in Germany to watch this film on New Year's Eve. many English and Americans do not know this film. there is a KZfaq video where X watches the film for the first time:

Thanks for Uploading this Masterpiece of TV Culture!!!

Immer wieder schön zu sehen 🥰

Good ole Freddy Frinton. Often had a broken cigarette in his sketches. Timeless.

Frohes neues Jahr 2024!Aus GB 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 ❤️ !

getting ready for 2024!!!!

Pure Gold. Old classics never die, they mature with age.

Immer wieder geil😂

Have watched this most years for 20 years, never fails to crease me up. In bits laughing every time. 😂

Every year I Am Lauging till I die

Tradition in South Africa too! Not sure whether it's still broadcast on telly nowadays but growing up, we watched every New Years. Never ever gets old.

I'm here once again. May 2022 be better than last year

The same procedure as _every_ year! That's sooo true. We Germans watch this every NYE.

Every Year i sea this, This is a legend 🎉❤

This has been a tradition to watch in Norway since the 80s, on the day before Christmas Eve. Timeless :)

Ja, 2020 Auf jeden Fall : Dinner for ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As has probably been already mentioned, this is almost totally unheard of in the UK! I only heard about it from a Danish friend who couldn't understand why I'd never seen it. Perhaps one day it will become a tradition here and we'll see it each year on British television. Let's hope so.

love it! great to see this and to hear it is still going strong in Germany and being watched around the world. Im in Yorkshire

I am 32 and was first introduced to this by a friend a couple of years ago. What a timeless classic and that ending was pretty edgy for the time! Amazing.

I don't know if I've ever seen something so repetitive and predictable... but so damn hilarious! Great performances

I just heard it's a german thing to watch this every new year's eve... so here i am

This reminds me of my beautiful German friends. It has been a while though. Happy New Year

I remember watching this as a child. Freddy Frinton was very popular

Happy New Year's everyone! My Danish best friend taught me about this tradition and I have to watch it every year now. 🥳🍾🥂🎆🎇

I haven't watched this for years! Brilliantly funny. This will now become a tradition in our house.

A family tradition. Lots of. Good memories.

You have to watch "Dinner for One" with Freddie Frinton and May Warden on New Year. That's definitely a tradition. Funny thing is, it's not popular in England & US, despite being in English. It’s a German production from 1961. “Same procedure as every year Miss Sophie?” “Same procedure as every year James” Happy New Year :)

I remember watching this on new years with my mom and her friends. I just love watching it.

Wo sind die Deutschen?? Frohes neues Jahr 🎆🎈🎊

Freddie Frinton played a drunk better than anyone, despite being a lifetime Teetotaller. I was lucky enough to see him in a stage play in summer 1967 in Blackpool, in a version of the popular TV series 'Meet the Wife', with Thora Hird, he was brilliant. This series gets a mention in the Sgt Pepper's song 'Good Morning, Good Morning'. Sadly Freddie died in October 1968, I believe this film was shot in 1963.

I was a kid 1972 every year❤😂🎉

Still one of my favorite shows never fails to make me laugh 😂

A masterclass in restrained slapstick.

I remember watching this from 1994-1997, every Christmas or new years eve in South Africa

MANY YEARS AGO, I READ THAT THE GERMANS, ALSO TOOK A SHINE TO THE 1960'S BRITISH COMEDY FILM, ''A HOME OF THEIR OWN''. WHICH ALSO BECAME A CHRISTMAS ANNUAL SHOW ON TV, WITH MILLIONS WATCHING EACH YEAR.

This is absolutely amazing. I love watching this on new years eve

Very cute. Just now heard about this. Very nice to know that countries we think of as sophisticated can have corny traditions too.

I think I watched this comedy one hundred times:-) I love it so much! Thank you so much!

Immer wieder klasse

Guys happy new year! Let’s hope for the best. I wish that whoever is reeding this receives love and blessings, luck, success and everything you hope for in 2021 ♥️🌈🌹

Made me laugh and in tears every single time 🤣❤️