"Merkozy" play leads in beloved German New Year skit

"Merkozy" play leads in beloved German New Year skit

BERLIN (Reuters) - A skit of "Dinner for One," a British vaudeville comedy blueprint so desired in Germany it binds cult standing and is screened any New Year's Eve, with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy as "Miss Sophie" and her left-handed butler, has turn an Internet smash.

In a black and white original, filmed in 1963, Miss Sophie celebrates her 90th birthday with 4 hypothetical guest as servant James darts around a table, sanctimonious to be any of them and downing their drinks, apropos increasingly doubtful in a process.

The skit, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kj4JBf-W0, done for German broadcaster ARD and patrician "The 90th euro rescue limit or euros for no one," has a heads of a German chancellor and French boss superimposed over a strange actors.

This time a hypothetical cooking companions embody former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Sarkozy pretends to be Cameron, as Merkel toasts him and tells him: "Don't forget we pronounce German in Europe."

"You are looking younger than ever," "Cameron" starts in English, afterwards switches to German and says: "You are looking richer than ever."

As Sarkozy continues to scuttle around a elegantly set table, a narrators sighs, explaining: "This is what happens any euro rescue summit, either or not anyone else is there, it is only these dual doing all themselves."

The strange will be shown 7 times by opposite German radio stations on New Year's Eve. Its recognition in Germany and Scandinavia has done it one of a world's many steady radio shows, though it is frequency famous in Britain.

Its insincere shutting line - when James asks either it will be "the same procession as final year," as he escorts Miss Sophie upstairs to bed, afterwards promises to do "his really best" - has turn a catchphrase in Germany.

At that indicate in a skit, that has had roughly 200,000 views on a Internet, Sarkozy, whose country's tip emperor credit rating is during risk, tells Merkel he will give her his "triple A."

(Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Alison Williams)


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